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Immigration Reform: Comprehensive Solutions for Complex Problems
(Cambio Center, 2009)
In January 2004, after more than two years of silence, President George Bush reignited the national immigration debate when he proposed a new guest worker program. Members of Congress of both political parties have entered ...
The Nature and Extent of Latino Immigrants' Communication with Their Children about Sexual Issues
(Cambio Center, 2008)
The second and third generation of Latino immigrants have historically not faired as well as their foreign-born parents on many health measures, such as life expectancy, unplanned pregnancy and drug use. To better prepare ...
Estimating carbon stock change in agroforestry and family forestry practices
(2009)
The Carbon Management Evaluation Tool for Voluntary Reporting (COMET-VR) is an online tool that estimates short-term carbon stock (CS) changes under different farm or forest land management systems, including temperate agroforestry practices...
Transitioning from wild collection to forest cultivation of indigenous medicinal forest plants in eastern North America
(2009)
rates; (2) propagation methods; (3) prices; (4) growing period; (5) production costs; and (6) yields. Results indicate that intensive husbandry of six of eight species would be unprofitable at recent (1990-2005) price levels. Exceptions are American...
Agroforestry and grass buffer effects on water quality on grazed pasture watersheds
(2009)
Conservation practices including agroforestry and grass buffers are believed to reduce non point source pollution (NPSP) from grazed pasture watersheds. Agroforestry, a land management practice that intersperses agricultural ...
Frequency of consumption and preferences for chestnuts in Missouri
(2009)
in 2008 are reported. The conjoint analysis used a choice-based model to investigate responses from pair-wise product profile comparisons. The attributes investigated include price per pound, production process, and origin. Our findings indicate...
Experiences from southern Quebec provide ecological insights for the implementation of tree-based intercropping systems
(2009)
. The TBI field was set in 2000 in southwestern Quebec using alternating rows of hybrid poplars (Populus spp.) and hardwood species spaced 8 m apart. Soybean (Glycine max L. (Merr.)) was grown between tree rows since 2004. During the 2005-2006 study period...
Farming the forests of Appalachia : opportunities and challenges
(2009)
People have been informally farming their forests for generations, although only in recent years has attention been directed at formalizing this land-use practice through research and development. Forest farming is becoming ...
Emission of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide from riparian forest buffers, warm-season and cool-season grass filters and crop fields
(2009)
Denitrification is recognized as the major mechanism for reducing nitrate in riparian buffers and thus diminishing non-point source pollution (NPS) of surface water bodies subject to high nitrogen loads. However, increasing ...
Recreational multifunctionality and its implications for agroforestry
(2009)
Multifunctionality occurs when farms provide different services along with food production including recreation and agroforestry. Multifunctional farms simultaneously offer several services suggesting synergies among them ...
Biotic interactions in organic farm systems
(2009)
Fire, drought, and grazing were primary ecological drivers of the historical Great Plains' prairie ecosystem. The suppression of fire, a shift in grazing and cropping systems, and the introduction of windbreaks and other ...
Murdoch Lake agroforestry project
(2009)
Intercropping has the potential to provide Alberta's farmers with many benefits from moisture trapping to increased crop production. In the Peace River Region of Alberta many farmers raise cattle and grow forage crops. ...
Improving tall fescue shade tolerance : identifying candidate genotypes
(2009)
Tall fescue (Schedonorus arundinaceus) is genetically variable for many agronomic traits, so it might be possible to increase its persistence and productivity in shaded agroforestry applications. The objective of this ...
Introduction of atrazine-degrading Pseudomonas sp. strain ADP to enhance rhizodegradation of atrazine
(2009)
The herbicide atrazine (ATR) has been widely applied to fields in the US and Mid Western states. Recently, public health and ecological concerns have been raised about contamination of surface and ground water by the ...
Thirty million agroforesters : Russia's family gardens
(2009)
Today, over 30 million Russian households engage in food gardening and collectively produce over half of Russia's agricultural output, using less than 6 [percent] of agricultural land in the country. The small size of plots ...
Rhizodegradation of sulfamethazine and tetracycline and the associated impacts on soil microbial activities
(2009)
The use of sulfamethazine (SLF) and tetracycline (TC) to maintain animal health in swine, poultry or cattle feedlot operations results in significant application of these veterinary pharmaceuticals to the landscape during ...
Afforesting former agricultural lands with high value hardwoods in southern Ontario
(2009)
With the onset of another environmental revolution, interest in establishing afforested plantations on marginal farmland in southern Ontario has been renewed. To supply private landowners with the tools needed to afforest ...
Attendance motivations behind the Missouri Chestnut Roast festival
(2009)
Festivals attract visitors with different types of motivations which are associated with a festival's theme. The Missouri Chestnut Roast festival combines recreational and educational activities to promote agroforestry, ...
CT-measured macropores as affected by agroforestry and grass buffers for grazed pasture systems
(2009)
Agroforestry and grass buffers have been proposed for improving water quality in watersheds. Buffer vegetation influences soil porosity, essential for water, gas and nutrient transport in soils. The objective of the study ...
Incorporating agroforestry into traditional forestry classes
(2009)
Agroforestry is a new topic to many undergraduates in Forestry programs. With the increasing importance of wood harvested from private lands and farm forests, an understanding of integrating timber harvest and agriculture ...