The Codex of Business Writing Software for Real-World Solutions 2.pptx
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2. Social Movements producing alternative products, outlets, and farming techniques have been defined by various researchers: sustainable agriculture (Allen et al 1991; Hassanein 1999), alternative food initiatives (AFIs) (Allen et al 2003), civic agriculture (Lyson 2004). Gordon Whitted from Weatherbury Station at the King’s Drive Farmer’s Market
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4. Food systems planning: why is it so visionary? Pothukuchi and Kaufman surveyed 22 planning agencies and asked planners why their planning departments paid so little attention to food systems. Planners responded as follows:
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7. Purpose The intention of this study was to assess the state of the sustainable agriculture movement and perceptions of community food systems from within the movement, and from planners and policy makers in North Carolina
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11. Matthews Community Farmer’s Market was an essential discovery. Many special elements are there: an authentically historic small town identity with original infrastructure, thriving small businesses, vested community team members. Results
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14. Ebenezer Howard’s Garden Cities Linked system of garden cities surrounding a larger central city whose populations are limited by farming greenbelts functioning as urban growth boundaries
In David Walters and Ken Chilton’s community planning class, where my group wrote a grant for a sustainable community development corporation, I began to look for justification for the sustainability component and felt inspired to help alleviate two linked conditions: environmental degradation and poverty. Then I discovered Agenda 21: The Earth Summit Strategy to Save Our Planet. It is a comprehensive global action plan adopted by all participating nations during 1992 in Rio de Janerio, Brazil at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). I will read an excerpt from the preamble: Humanity stands at a defining moment in history. We are confronted with a perpetuation of disparities between and within nations, a worsening of poverty, hunger, ill health and illiteracy, and the continuing deterioration of the ecosystems on which we depend for our well-being. However, integration of environment and development concerns and greater attention to them will lead to the fulfillment of basic needs, improved living standards for all, better protected and managed ecosystems and a safer, more prosperous future. No nation can achieve this on its own; but together we can - in a global partnership for sustainable development (UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs 2004, 1.1). This is the inspiration for my capstone research project.
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