EQIP holds greater potential to support farmers of color than the Conservation Reserve Program because it is based not on commodity crops and acreage, and does not seek to retire land from production. Rather, it is based on management practices, including those tied to livestock operations. EQIP seemingly holds greater potential for farmers of color…
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Manure can also be diverted to anaerobic digesters and converted to useable energy
Although more aid was still provided to the public in terms of volume, in conjunction with the wave of cuts in federal spending in the mid-1990s, private sector aid became the fastest growing form of food assistance and had overtaken SNAP and other public aid. The 1996 Farm Bill represents the culmination of neoliberal-oriented public assistance reform…
The goal of agricultural policy had shifted from support of production to the support of commodity prices
The lack of change in the trade title reflects the maintenance of a global trade structure produced by and designed to benefit transnational agribusiness corporations as well as US influence abroad.The nutrition title has long been the largest title in the Farm Bill and continues to account for more than two-thirds of Farm Bill spending.…
This chapter focuses on the case when a mandate only applies to a portion of the output of the live animal
Regulations such as Prop 12 also differ in their economic impacts from private standards imposed on farm production practices by downstream buyers such as grocery retailers and food service operators. Such standards were studied by Saitone, Sexton, and Sumner and applied to restrictions on antibiotic use in pork production. The essential economics of private standards include the…
The activities of urban farms fall naturally under definitions and descriptions of agroecology
These strategies span both short and long-term, from planting in raised beds with imported soil, to building soil health in situ via heavy applications of compost, manure, and cover crops for several years leading up to vegetable crop production. There is a growing interest in using no-till practices, which are among the suite of practices…
The ownership structure of the farms was mostly either family owned or a sole proprietorship
Muller further notes,“if GTM is to serve as a way of knowing, then the knowledge that it produces should be placed in relation to other knowledge”, planting the GTM-variant taken on by HCI and CSCW researchers squarely in the Straussian strain. Indeed, in this study, I use the Corbin and Strauss methodology that encourages searching…
The Life Cycle Impact Assessment phase is where the main analysis of the product system occurs
The word model is a loaded term that can mean a multitude of things depending on the nature of the problem and the application domain. In this dissertation, model refers to a representation model, i.e., one that is a “representation of a selected part of the world ”, as opposed to models that represent sets…
Garden staff responded by connecting those individuals to Long Beach’s homeless services team
Although UA leaders desired to engage more community members, there were restrictions on who could enter UA sites. Most UA sites were only open to a specific population or established hours of operation and procedures for visitors. Gardens and farms had several security measures, such as locked fences, remote-controlled gates, and surveillance cameras. UA leaders…
CCW enables low SES communities to unite for environmental and food justice
Blacks, American Indians/Alaskan Natives, Pacific Islanders and some Asian Americans are at increased risk for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, which can cause premature death . Data shows that many of the census tracts with higher rates of diabetes in Long Beach are also low-income areas, where a significant number of residents are located over…
Adult cull cows from cow-calf operations often go to slaughter directly at the end of their productive life
This is concordant with several archaeological indicators showing long-term increases in population density in the Upper Paleolithic and Late Stone Age, including increased small-game exploitation, greater pressure on easily collected prey species like tortoises and shellfish, and more intense hunting of dangerous prey species. We further note that much of the literature pointing to sudden…