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    Hydroponics. Hydroponics is a method of growing a variety of fruits and vegetables without the use of soil and is becoming quite common in major urban cities all over the world. As with everything else today, not everyone agrees on the benefits of producing food in this manner. One specific opposition to the sprawl of urban farming comes from Richard Longworth who expressed his viewpoint in an article titled, “Forget Urban Farms. We Need a Wal-Mart.” Longworth’s attempt at using logos to appeal…

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    sure what to expect given this assignment especially since, most people take food for granted and look to a grocery store as a dispensary. I knew many foods had to have originated somewhere but where was uncertain as there are many plants that are native to one place and through time immigrated elsewhere. In addition, many foods have been domesticated as well as new strands and varieties created. My biggest concern with foods today isn’t so much from where they derive but whether they are…

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    live in my county. Out of those 5,799 people 700 are food insecure, which comes to about 12%. To a lot of people 12% isn’t that much but in my mind one person who is food insecure is one too many. There are so many small communities in my county you could put about six towns population together and they would cover that 700 people who don’t have food. If you would tell someone that the people that live in 6 out of the 10 towns in my county are food insecure then that might get some people’s…

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    premise that the road construction project for this area is perhaps not even contemplated by our socio-economic planners. This is probably why despite the enormous quantity of cash and food crops produced in the country, hunger and poverty still reign supreme in some regions. According to Tetchiada (2004), Cameroon’s food production witnessed a persistent and sustained decline with examples of 1.3% and 1.7% fall in 2002 and 2003 respectively. It is important to note that the fall in agricultural…

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    Poverty around the World Introduction: The number of people who survives on less than $1.25 per day is about one billion. This is astonishing, because the advancement in technology and scientific discoveries has contributed less in the reduction of poverty across the World. Poverty is a relative term, and different people and societies have different standards to measure poverty. However, the most common and agreed definition of poverty is that, it is the lack of money to sustain a healthy life…

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    Rural Development and Rural Tourism This study aims to remove obstacles carried out by the state for regional rural development and sustainability. That means the heritage, culture, characteristics, and qualities of rural settlements will be preserved while these areas will be developed. The study will emphasize the importance of agriculture and how to integrate it with the wide lands and open spaces that characterize rural areas. When mass tourism began along the seaside areas, people believe…

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    seasons”. In the book, the author says that Japanese people have a strong sense of the seasons. Because Japanese people had been engaged in agriculture, their lives depended on the seasons. The time of planting seeds, giving fertilizer, and harvesting food are all depended on seasons. So they treasured four seasons, and thanks to this, a lot of seasonal events were formed. I agree that the past Japanese people had strong sense of the seasons. Although some European countries have 4 seasons, I…

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    Peasant life also improved under Alexander III, who in 1882 established the Peasant Land Bank to help peasants buy additional land from the nobles. Which mitigated some of the financial burden faced by the peasantry after the emancipation of 1861 and diminished distress and unrest in the countryside. Polunov asserts Nikolai Bunge is credited with the founding of “a Peasant Land Bank, on May 18, 1882”, however, it's likely Alexander III would receive the credit even if he was not at the forefront…

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    anthropology In the past, anthropologists have studied a variety of economic systems. Subsistence economies are some of the simplest forms of economic systems and can be divided into groups such as food foragers, horticulturalists, pastoralists and agriculturalist. The context of this essay will compare and contrast food foragers and horticulturalists. Economic anthropology is the study of the social and cultural basis of economic behaviour(Wolf, 1997). It is also the study that looks at how…

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    5.2.6 Liquidity Liquidity is the amount of cash available for farm production at the start of the simulation period. It is required for a variety of activities, such as covering the costs of the inputs for cropping (e.g. fertilizer, herbicides), hiring additional labor and hiring labor to clear forest. In the survey households were asked about their monetary savings and cash, however no answers were provided by the respondents. Therefore, the credit limit is used as a proxy to quantify cash…

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