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Competing agri-environmental paradigms and technology transfer : negotiating the nature of agroforestry in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
that is dominant in Missouri and the Midwest. Despite agroforestry's stated potential to provide environmental and economic benefits for Missouri's land and landowners, adoption of agroforestry practices in the state has been limited. This study examines...
'We only do food' : social assumptions of poverty and the implementation of emergency food services
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Food pantries are a critical social safety net for food insecure households, yet the growth of food pantry services in the United States has not been accompanied by an equal increase in research related to their organizational structuring. A state...
Understanding reservation hunger : food acquisition and food security among the northern Cheyenne
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
The Northern Cheyenne represent a group that experiences poverty and hunger at an exceptionally high level. As an extreme case study, this project adds conceptually and methodologically to food provisioning literature by ...
Modes of reflexivity in community supported agriculture : the case of the people's republic of delicious foods
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
As food has become unknowable, untrustworthy, and deleterious to all involved, people have responded with alternatives to the industrial agrifood system. One method in particular is Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) ...
Value chain integration, cluster cooperation, and sustainable livelihoods : bridging small farmers to high value markets
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This study explores the conditions for the possibility of an effective participation of small vegetable farmers in the modern value chains and the effects of this participation on the farmers' livelihood sustainability. ...
Power in the garden : exploring the lives of Missouri farm women and their vegetable gardens during the Great Depression
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Today, when fresh, canned, and frozen vegetables are plentiful and taken for granted, the home vegetable garden is regarded as something between a hobby and a luxury. But in the Great Depression of the 1930s, the household ...