Incorporating Cultures Role in the Food and Agricultural Sciences

• Author : Florence V. Dunkel
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 2017-08-29
• ISBN : 9780128039823

Incorporating Cultures' Role in the Food and Agricultural Sciences addresses the practical needs of the professors, administrators and students who often face challenges of working together with Indigenous peoples with whom they have no prior experience. Missed communication, failed projects and unrealistic goals are daily realities. Academia and industry often encounter frustration in recruiting and retaining Native American students and other ethnicities. This text is a guide for anyone working in the food or agriculture disciplines or industries, particularly for

• Author : Stacey-Ann Wilson
• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Release Date : 2015-01-12
• ISBN : 9781443873406

This volume takes as its starting point that issues of identity and culture are important and relevant for community development in nearly every society. It is therefore essential that community development practitioners acknowledge both culture as well as the political necessity of incorporating cultural systems, cultural values and traditions into community development initiatives. This book argues that including identity and culture in community development design, and treating identity and culture as an intrinsic asset can be beneficial for all types

• Author : Valentine Udoh James
• Publisher : CABI
• Release Date : 2018-04-02
• ISBN : 9781780646169

This book presents over 40 cases of bamboo development across 22 major bamboo-industry countries and explores the knowledge gained from their successes and failures. It synthesises experiences and exchanges with country experts from international training courses and consultations, study tours, and seminars. Each case includes observations and summaries of discussions related to the development of bamboo-based industries in a healthy, sustainable way, and the facilitation of strategic and balanced development of bamboo in different global regions. Industrial and artisanal bamboo growing and

• Author : OECD
• Publisher : OECD Publishing
• Release Date : 2011-11-03
• ISBN : 9789264089464

This review finds that Lombardy is the most prosperous region in Italy. But the region faces long-term challenges emerging from an ageing population, immigration and slow adaptation of practices and technologies to enhance productivity.

• Author : Ngulube, Patrick
• Publisher : IGI Global
• Release Date : 2016-09-29
• ISBN : 9781522508397

Knowledge systems are an essential aspect to the preservation of a community’s culture. In developing countries, this community-based knowledge has significant influence on such things as decision making and problem solving. The Handbook of Research on Social, Cultural, and Educational Considerations of Indigenous Knowledge in Developing Countries is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on the importance of knowledge and value systems at the community level and ways indigenous people utilize this information. Highlighting impacts on

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1995
• ISBN : STANFORD:36105119504970

• Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
• Publisher : National Academies Press
• Release Date : 2000-05-31
• ISBN : 0309183529

The rapid expansion of international trade has brought to the fore issues of conflicting national regulations in the area of plant, animal, and human health. These problems include the concern that regulations designed to protect health can also be used for protection of domestic producers against international competition. At a time when progressive tariff reform has opened up markets and facilitated trade, in part responding to consumer demands for access to a wide choice of products and services at reasonable

• Author : Lindsay Falvey
• Publisher : Thaksin University Press
• Release Date : 2020-01-01
• ISBN : 9780975100073

Agriculture and philosophy have been parts of a whole across history and remain so. Philosophy informs wellbeing and contentment amidst the vagaries of existence, the primary concern of which has always been security of food. Science, once known as natural philosophy, is a major means of philosophical advance today. Agricultural science is presented as comprising all of these components. The philosophical quest to be at ease in nature extends from pre-historical times into our unknown future, and employs diverse vehicles

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2015
• ISBN : STANFORD:36105050685960

• Author : Andrew Smith
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2013-01-31
• ISBN : 9780199734962

The second edition of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, originally published in September 2004, covers the significant events, inventions, and social movements that have shaped the way Americans view, prepare, and consume food and drink. Entries range across historical periods and the trends that characterize them. The thoroughly updated new edition captures the shifting American perspective on food and is the most authoritative and the most current reference work on American cuisine.

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1982
• ISBN : STANFORD:36105045594624

• Author : W. Kim Halford,Fons Van De Vijver
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 2020-08-12
• ISBN : 9780128154946

Cross-Cultural Family Research and Practice broadens the theoretical and clinical perspectives on couple and family cross-cultural research with insights from a diverse set of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, communications, economics, and more. Examining topics such as family migration, acculturation and implications for clinical intervention, the book starts by providing an overarching conceptual framework, then moves into a comparison of countries and cultures, with an overview of cross-cultural studies of the family across nations from a range of specific disciplinary perspectives.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2010
• ISBN : STANFORD:36105214547726

Identifies and describes specific government assistance opportunities such as loans, grants, counseling, and procurement contracts available under many agencies and programs.

• Author : Joel J. Mintzes
• Publisher : NSTA Press
• Release Date : 2006
• ISBN : 9780873552608

The Handbook offers models of teaching and learning that go beyond the typical lecture-laboratory format and provides rationales for new practices in the college classroom. It is ideal for graduate teaching assistants, senior faculty and graduate coordinators, and mid-career professors in search of reinvigoration.

• Author : David Burch,Jasper Goss,Geoffrey Lawrence
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2018-12-20
• ISBN : 9780429827440

First published in 1999, this collection of papers represents the latest thinking on the effects of globalisation and agri-food restructuring from a regional and peripheral perspective. The book breaks new ground in our understanding of the relationship between the global, regional and local levels in the sphere of agri-food production. While Australia and New Zealand are important components of the agri-food system, the economic and political decisions which impact at the regional and local level are usually made elsewhere - often