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Life Sciences

2011

Food security

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Promoting Food Security: The Community Food Security Coalition, Elizabeth A. Berman Nov 2011

Promoting Food Security: The Community Food Security Coalition, Elizabeth A. Berman

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This article discusses community food security as a socio-economic issue, and highlights the Community Food Security Coalition (http://www.foodsecurity.org/), a non-profit organization that is “dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for all people at all times."

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Food In My Back Yard (Fimby) Implementing Urban Agriculture Into Australian Suburbs, Ned Wales, Nicole Webb Oct 2011

Food In My Back Yard (Fimby) Implementing Urban Agriculture Into Australian Suburbs, Ned Wales, Nicole Webb

Ned Wales


The recent climatic events, economic uncertainty and peak oil are leading to greater levels of awareness of our vulnerability for food supply and security.  During the summer of 2010/11 much of the east coast of Australia was inundated with record rainfall and proceeding flooding, which impacted on food delivery from regional production areas to urban markets. Consequently, many of our major food outlets in suburban neighbourhoods ran critically low in supply and price increases were significant.  These events have lead to a wider dialog on where does our food come from and how can we ensure food supply as we …

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Sustainable Food: New York Organic Dairy Market Conditions And Recommendations For Policy Reform, Dylan H. Hawkins Jun 2011

Sustainable Food: New York Organic Dairy Market Conditions And Recommendations For Policy Reform, Dylan H. Hawkins

Honors Theses

This paper questions the sustainability of the American dairy industry through an examination of the current organic milk industry of New York State, with special attention paid to three interests: consumer welfare, farmer welfare, and the environment. Many consumers envision an agrarian ideal of grazing cows on pasture when they think of a dairy farm; milk-marketing companies often perpetuate this image. Unfortunately, most dairy cows in America do not enjoy such idyllic lives. History shows that consolidation of the American food system has led to major transformations in dairy farming. As a result, consumers have had limited access to high …

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Farmers Motivations To Practice Sustainable Agriculture, Kimberly A. Floeser Jun 2011

Farmers Motivations To Practice Sustainable Agriculture, Kimberly A. Floeser

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An increasing awareness of human and environmental health issues and the destruction of family farms and rural communities have caused a significant change in the way many farmers, consumers, and policy‐makers are thinking about and relating to food, the results of which can be seen largely in the growth of the organic and sustainable food industry. This paper attempts to examine and explain farmers’ attitudes towards sustainable agriculture, and their motivations to use sustainable methods of production. A survey was distributed to 533 farms that are members of the Northeast Organic Food Association of New York (NOFA‐NY). The data obtained …

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