The local food movement is an approach to lowering the ecological footprints of our food supply. However, a main bottleneck in making local foods mainstream is ensuring that consumers know ...
The Kingdom of Bhutan is located between India and China in South Asia. Bhutan is one of the most isolated and least developed countries in the world. Foreign influences are ...
Ecoagriculture is both a conservation strategy and a rural development strategy. Ecoagriculture recognizes agricultural producers and communities as key stewards of ecosystems and biodiversity and enables them to play those ...
Over the last fifty years, older industrial cities throughout the Northeastern and Midwestern United States have experienced dramatic economic decline and outward migration. To counter this narrative of decline and ...
Proponents of the local foods movement argue that major environmental benefits can be generated through sourcing foods locally. But two key question remain. Can we know what the environmental benefits ...
Balancing the needs for agriculture and threatened wildlife is a complex issue that many rural communities now face. Conservationists and farmers have often found themselves at opposite sides of a ...