Sustainable Agriculture and Food: Four volume set (Earthscan Reference Collections)

The Growth of Urban Agriculture 417 its subunits, taking into account local resources, inputs and the potential of the land. Int ...

418 Localized Food Systems Basic Principles Planning for urban agriculture in Cuba is guided by a set of basic principles defin- ...

The Growth of Urban Agriculture 419 oversee technical and service units such as the veterinary clinic, farmers’ shop, nurseries, ...

420 Localized Food Systems The heterogeneity of Cuba and the diversity of possible ways to grow vegetables have combined to gene ...

The Growth of Urban Agriculture 421 supplies. At this point there are 104,087 parcels and patios under production, covering an a ...

422 Localized Food Systems Suburban farms On the edge or outer ring of Cuban cities we find many integrated suburban farms. They ...

The Growth of Urban Agriculture 423 Source: MINAG, 1994–1999 Figure 19.3 Vegetable production from organoponics and intensive ve ...

424 Localized Food Systems Small-scale ‘popular’ rice production This sub-programme has made significant advances in the past th ...

The Growth of Urban Agriculture 425 produced by crossing a locally adapted Creole hen with a more productive line of hen, such a ...

426 Localized Food Systems a residue pit or biogas digester; a cement or tile floor and a roof for protection from weather. To ...

The Growth of Urban Agriculture 427 right seed at the appropriate time for sowing. A network of provincial seed farms has been c ...

428 Localized Food Systems Conservation and management of soil fertility The productive potential of land available for food pro ...

The Growth of Urban Agriculture 429 extensionists to work in the closest possible degree of collaboration. Already over half of ...

430 Localized Food Systems on the drawing board. We expect that in the near future urban agriculture will satisfy a high percent ...

20 The Quest for Ecological Modernization: Re-Spacing Rural Development and Agrifood Studies Terry Marsden Over recent years the ...

432 Localized Food Systems and environmental policy (see, for instance, the contributions to The Environmental Sociology Handboo ...

The Quest for Ecological Modernization 433 tion, on the one hand, and a more open and pluralistically engaged rural sociology on ...

434 Localized Food Systems propose it does question the longevity of what Buttel (2000) refers to as the more established ration ...

The Quest for Ecological Modernization 435 We see here then a significant theoretical and empirical challenge both for rural soc ...

436 Localized Food Systems in ways which re-engage with the somewhat traditional sociological concepts of com- munity, regulatio ...