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Gender and resource management: Households and groups, strategies and transitions

Valdivia, Corinne; Gilles, Jere - In: Agriculture and Human Values 18 (2001) 1, pp. 5-9

Rural families must constantly negotiate their livelihoods by obtaining access to natural resources, labor, capital, knowledge, and markets. Successful negotiation leads to enhanced family well-being and sustainable use of natural resources. Unsuccessful negotiation threatens family survival,...

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Civic dietetics: opportunities for integrating civic agriculture concepts into dietetic practice

Wilkins, Jennifer - In: Agriculture and Human Values 26 (2009) 1, pp. 57-66

agricultural sustainability issues relevant to their training and practice. Longstanding organizational structures, practices, and …

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Analysis of plant nutrient management strategies: Conventional and alternative approaches

Gareau, Stephen - In: Agriculture and Human Values 21 (2004) 4, pp. 347-353

During times of economic uncertainty, such as the current period, all costs of agricultural production become important and worthy of close scrutiny if the threat of farm foreclosures is to be minimized. This concern particularly applies to the cost of plant nutrients, which, under conventional...

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The cultural background of the sustainability of the traditional farming system in the Ghouta the oasis of Damascus, Syria

Alhamidi, Sameer; Gustafsson, Mats; Larsson, Hans; … - In: Agriculture and Human Values 20 (2003) 3, pp. 231-240

This paper discusses thepractical impact of a non-materialistic cultureon sustainable farm management.Two elements are discussed: first, how deeplyrooted religion is in this culture; second,the feasibility of using both human knowledgeand experience, so-called tradition and divineguidance in...

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Sustainability and peasant farming systems: Observations from Zimbabwe

Campbell, B.M.; Bradley, P.; Carter, S.E. - In: Agriculture and Human Values 14 (1997) 2, pp. 159-168

ofattempting to ask whether peasant farming systems are sustainable.Any attempt at sustainability assessment needs to consider … certainlya need for more rigorous analysis of sustainability issues, thereis limited outlook for an approach based on indicators …-physical data advance ourknowledge about sustainability? Peasant systems arepolitically-guided management systems, whose boundaries …

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Quelle pérennité pour les interventions pilotes de gratuité des soins au Burkina Faso ?

Samb, Oumar Mallé; Ridde, Valery; Queuille, Ludovic - In: Revue Tiers-Monde n°215 (2013) 3, pp. 73-91

This study based on qualitative research aims to assess the sustainability of the suppression of two healthcare payment … districts in Burkina Faso. The results show the importance of the sustainability process mainly in organizational risk …-taking and resource stabilization. These two elements were central to the difference in sustainability between the two …

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From tourist to development worker. Private development initiatives in the Netherlands

Kinsbergen, Sara; Schulpen, Lau - In: Mondes en développement n°161 (2013) 1, pp. 49-62

This article describes and analyses the rise of small scale, voluntary development organisations (private development initiatives, PDI) in the Netherlands. The concept of PDI is disentangled and this alternative development actor is positioned in the ?philanteral aid channel?. Using data of...

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A Scoring Tool for Websites – A Case of Sustainable Organizations

Ahmed, GOMAA; Rachel, PAUKETT; DATTEL Andrew R. - In: European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (2014) 01

This paper introduces a scoring tool to analyse company sustainability marketing efforts. We identify the expected … scoring tool is based on the aspects of sustainability and website quality and is divided into three categories: a) user … friendly, b) transparency, and c) content. The automation of the scoring tool benefits from a sustainability taxonomy to …

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Robust viable management of a harvested ecosystem model

Regnier, Esther; Lara, Michel De - HAL - 2013

The Word Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, 2002) encouraged the application of the ecosystem approach by 2010. In this perspective, we propose a theoretical management framework that deals jointly with i) ecosystem dynamics, ii) conflicting issues of production and preservation...

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Modelling the Effect of Climate Change on Environmental Pollution Losses from Dairy Systems in the UK

Prado, Agustin del; Shepherd, Anita; Wu, Lianhai; Topp, … - 2010

sustainability (e.g. net farm income, biodiversity and soil quality) were simulated and illustrated as an example. …

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