Community-supported agriculture

is estimated that more than 12% of the humanity suffer with the scarcity of food nowadays (Long, C. (2013, March). Global food crises, food insecurity and measuring hunger. Retrieved from http://journalistsresource.org/studies/environment/food-agriculture/impact-global-food-crisis-self-assessed-food-security#sthash.DFq7ZVzQ.dpuf). We have been fighting against the hunger since the Green Revolution in the 20th Century, but we still have a long way to walk before its end (Borlaug, N. E. (October…

filled most American agricultural workers and farmers with frustration, despair, and panic. Throughout this stage of American history, factors such as new technologies, government policies, and economic conditions began to take shape within American agriculture, all of which changing common cultivation towards a substantially sharp decline in prosperity. The period was categorized as an era of Republican, laissez-faire governments that all chose to favor big businesses and corporations…

While Mao’s political agenda is often derided, the challenges he tackled and achieved success over in his early years of leadership are overlooked by many. China had faced a weak central government under the Qing Dynasty Mao provided a strong central government that alleviated poor conditions subsequent to Imperial China. Mao intended to bring social reforms, improve sanitation, reducing the spread of disease and bridge the gap of gender inequality by introducing women’s rights. Essentially, as…

benefits of industrial vs. subsistence agriculture, organic farming, pesticide use? Summary of issue: For thousands of years, the biological science of agriculture has enabled the human race to germinate, and grow into the billions of citizens that we see today. This ever-growing population, however, has put a strain on the once predominant agricultural practice of subsistence and organic farming and facilitated the scientific development of industrial agriculture and pesticide use to…

Through evolution, humans began adapting to different environments to which they migrated, which began giving humans physical differences like skin color. Fast forward to when cities were formed, geography impacted agriculture, economics and militaristic strategies. Geography is the single most important factor that decides if a civilization will prosper and survive throughout centuries. The most revolutionizing factor that caused humans to settle and develop a civilization…

When the world thinks of New Zealand, they think of clean beautiful waterways, its clean green image and of course, the agriculture, but on the contrary this is actually the opposite. This false image brings in thousands of tourists every single year, benefiting immensely economically. Among tourism, the dairy industry is the biggest economic trade, earning the country around $13.7 billion NZ dollars in export alone. Dairy export in New Zealand goes way back, in 1882 we were the first country to…

until it had become a civilization, and in those stages Childe defines the Neolithic era as part of the barbarism stage. Gordon Childe had believed that the Bronze Age had brought an early phase of a civilized world, even though some villages and communities in the Neolithic era had shown many characteristics of a civilization. Though the term of civilization has changed several times and could be considered problematic to define. Civilization can be hard to define because what some may consider…

Beyond Economic Growth: An Evaluation of Contract Farming from a Gender Perspective Contract farming is a mode of agricultural production based on an agreement between buyers and producers that has become increasingly popular across countries, because it has been proven to be rather effective in promoting farmers’ productivity and in accurately orienting agricultural products to a target market. As a wealth of empirical studies have shown, contract farming schemes can indeed raise the income and…

Rhetorical Analysis In 2013 Chipotle released a commercial, called “The Scarecrow,” that tries to inform its audience of the problems within the fast food industry while simultaneously promoting the Chipotle brand . Chipotle wants the viewer to know that they are not like other “fast food” restaurants . It is doing so to make people feel less guilty about eating their meals and making them understand that even though delicious, their meals are healthier than most other fast food chains’. One of…

Besides the obvious reason of utilizing the river as a water source to eliminate dehydration, it gives our community the advantage to manipulate the bodies of water nearby to our advantage. With that being said, animals as well as our community will exploit from the nearby animals by harnessing their power for labor, their meat as a food source, or their sturdiness as transportation depending on the animal. Alongside food,…