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Assessing Water Policy Implications Of The Changing Agriculture In New Mexico, Trevor A. Birt
Assessing Water Policy Implications Of The Changing Agriculture In New Mexico, Trevor A. Birt
Shared Knowledge Conference
Agriculture is the dominant water sector in New Mexico, responsible for more than 80% of water withdrawals in 2015 (USGS 2018). Water policy needs to be extremely adaptive and informed to meet the needs of not only farmers, but cities, industry and riparian uses. Since 1840, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has conducted census surveys assessing all levels of agriculture. These data are physically published at the county, state, and national level on a 5-year cycle, detailing various material counts such as acreage, yields, and water usage, as well as socioeconomic estimates of farm costs, revenues, and hired workers. …
Preface, Weixing Song
Intercropping In Semi-Arid India: An Analysis Of Risks And Trade Offs, Jack Pringle
Intercropping In Semi-Arid India: An Analysis Of Risks And Trade Offs, Jack Pringle
Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research
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Growing A Sustainable City: The Question Of Urban Agriculture, Hamil Pearsall
Growing A Sustainable City: The Question Of Urban Agriculture, Hamil Pearsall
Sustainability Seminar Series
This presentation examines urban agriculture in Philadelphia and highlights the challenges of institutionalizing this historically informal urban activity into formal city policy over the last two decades. Urban agriculture has become a symbol of Philadelphia’s economic revitalization, sustainability, and increasingly, its gentrification. Often characterized by advocates as an urban panacea, gardening and farming seem to promise solutions to many different urban problems, such as blighted vacant lots, food insecurity, stormwater runoff, and neighborhood decline. However, questions of land tenure, the use of economic resources, and the long-term viability of urban agriculture shape the political discourse about the future of growing …