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94 relations: Adrian Williams, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Agricultural subsidy, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Austria, Bioregionalism, Brunswick County, North Carolina, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, Cambridge University Press, Carnegie Mellon University, Chatham County, North Carolina, Childhood obesity, Community gardening, Community-based economics, Community-supported agriculture, Cornell University, Cranfield University, Critical animal studies, Crop rotation, Dalhousie University, Declaration for Healthy Food and Agriculture, Deforestation, Distributed generation, Drainage basin, Ecology, Ecoregion, Farm-to-table, Farmers' market, Food chain, Food cooperative, Food desert, Food industry, Food miles, Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, Foodscaping, Foodshed, Forsyth County, North Carolina, Free range, Geography of food, Globalization, Golden LEAF Foundation, Good agricultural practice, Graz, Greenhouse gas, Guilford County, North Carolina, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Hiroko Shimizu (bowler), Intensive animal farming, Intensive farming, Invasive species, ..., Jessica Prentice, Lincoln University (New Zealand), List of food cooperatives, Local purchasing, Localism (politics), Manure, Neologism, New Oxford American Dictionary, New Zealand, Onslow County, North Carolina, Organic farming, Organic food, Oxford University Press, Pierre Desrochers (politician), Poverty, Public health, Puerto Rico, Rockingham County, North Carolina, San Francisco Bay Area, Self-Reliance, Slow Food, Slow Money, Small farm, Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, Species, Strolling of the Heifers, Subsistence agriculture, Supply chain, Sustainability, Sustainable agriculture, Sustainable distribution, Sustainable Table, Terra Madre, The 100-Mile Diet, The Boston Globe, Time (magazine), Transport, United Nations, United States farm bill, Urban agriculture, Urban area, Walmart, Washington, D.C., World Environment Day. Expand index (44 more) »
Adrian Williams
Adrian "Ady" Williams (born 16 August 1971, in Reading, England) is a former Wales international footballer and former Didcot Town manager.
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses.
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Agricultural subsidy
An agricultural subsidy is a governmental subsidy paid to agribusinesses, agricultural organizations and farms to supplement their income, manage the supply of agricultural commodities, and influence the cost and supply of such commodities.
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Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
The David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future is a unit within Cornell University that advances multidisciplinary sustainability research in the fields of energy, the environment, and economic development.
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Austria
Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.
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Bioregionalism
Bioregionalism is a political, cultural, and ecological system or set of views based on naturally defined areas called bioregions, similar to ecoregions.
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Brunswick County, North Carolina
Brunswick County is the southernmost county in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Cabarrus County, from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.
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Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University (commonly known as CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Chatham County, North Carolina
Chatham County, from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Childhood obesity
Childhood obesity is a condition where excess body fat negatively affects a child's health or well-being.
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Community gardening
A community garden is a single piece of land gardened collectively by a group of people.
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Community-based economics
Community-based economics or community economics is an economic system that encourages local substitution.
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Community-supported agriculture
Community-supported agriculture, commonly referred to as a CSA model, is a system that connects the producer and consumers within the food system more closely by allowing the consumer to subscribe to the harvest of a certain farm or group of farms.
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Cornell University
Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.
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Cranfield University
Cranfield University is a British postgraduate and research-based public university specialising in science, engineering, technology and management.
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Critical animal studies
Critical animal studies (CAS) is an interdisciplinary scientific field and theory-to-activism global community, which originated at the beginning of the 21st century.
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Crop rotation
Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of dissimilar or different types of crops in the same area in sequenced seasons.
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Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University (commonly known as Dal) is a public research university in Nova Scotia, Canada, with three campuses in Halifax, a fourth in Bible Hill, and medical teaching facilities in Saint John, New Brunswick.
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Declaration for Healthy Food and Agriculture
The Declaration for Healthy Food and Agriculture (also known as the Food Declaration) is a declaration, endorsed by 200 national leaders of the sustainable food movement, outlining 12 principles that these leaders believe should frame a healthy food and agriculture policy.
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Deforestation
Deforestation, clearance, or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use.
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Distributed generation
Distributed generation, also distributed energy, on-site generation (OSG) or district/decentralized energy is electrical generation and storage performed by a variety of small, grid-connected devices referred to as distributed energy resources (DER).
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Drainage basin
A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.
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Ecology
Ecology (from οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment.
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Ecoregion
An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than an ecozone.
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Farm-to-table
Farm-to-table (or farm-to-fork, and in some cases farm-to-school) is a social movement which promotes serving local food at restaurants and school cafeterias, preferably through direct acquisition from the producer (which might be a winery, brewery, ranch, fishery, or other type of food producer which is not strictly a "farm").
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Farmers' market
A farmers' market is a physical retail marketplace intended to sell foods directly by farmers to consumers.
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Food chain
A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web starting from producer organisms (such as grass or trees which use radiation from the Sun to make their food) and ending at apex predator species (like grizzly bears or killer whales), detritivores (like earthworms or woodlice), or decomposer species (such as fungi or bacteria).
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Food cooperative
A food cooperative or food co-op is a food distribution outlet organized as a cooperative, rather than a private or public company.
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Food desert
A food desert is an area, especially one with low-income residents, that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food.
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Food industry
The food industry is a complex, global collective of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world population.
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Food miles
Food miles is a term which refers to the distance food is transported from the time of its production until it reaches the consumer.
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Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (also known as the 2008 U.S. Farm Bill) was a $288 billion, five-year agricultural policy bill that was passed into law by the United States Congress on June 18, 2008.
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Foodscaping
Foodscaping, sometimes called edible landscaping or front yard farming, May 22, 2012, WPLN News, Nashville Public Radio,, Accessed Jan.
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Foodshed
A foodshed is the geographic region that produces the food for a particular population.
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Forsyth County, North Carolina
Forsyth County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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Free range
A small flock of mixed free-range chickens being fed outdoors Free range denotes a method of farming husbandry where the animals, for at least part of the day, can roam freely outdoors, rather than being confined in an enclosure for 24 hours each day.
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Geography of food
The geography of food is a field of human geography.
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Globalization
Globalization or globalisation is the process of interaction and integration between people, companies, and governments worldwide.
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Golden LEAF Foundation
The Golden LEAF Foundation is a nonprofit corporation based in Rocky Mount, North Carolina in the United States, that was created in 1999 to receive half of the funds coming to North Carolina from the master settlement agreement with cigarette manufacturers.
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Good agricultural practice
Good agricultural practice (GAP) are specific methods which, when applied to agriculture, create food for consumers or further processing that is safe and wholesome.
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Graz
Graz is the capital of Styria and the second-largest city in Austria after Vienna.
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Greenhouse gas
A greenhouse gas is a gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range.
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Guilford County, North Carolina
Guilford County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax, officially known as the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), is the capital of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
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Hiroko Shimizu (bowler)
Hiroko Shimizu (清水 弘子, Shimizu Hiroko; born March 15, 1977) is a Japanese female professional ten-pin bowler.
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Intensive animal farming
Intensive animal farming or industrial livestock production, also known as factory farming, is a production approach towards farm animals in order to maximize production output, while minimizing production costs.
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Intensive farming
Intensive farming involves various types of agriculture with higher levels of input and output per cubic unit of agricultural land area.
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Invasive species
An invasive species is a species that is not native to a specific location (an introduced species), and that has a tendency to spread to a degree believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy or human health.
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Jessica Prentice
Jessica Prentice is a chef, author, and founding member of Three Stone Hearth, a community-supported kitchen in Berkeley, California.
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Lincoln University (New Zealand)
Lincoln University (Māori: Te Whare Wanaka o Aoraki) is a New Zealand university that was formed in 1990 when Lincoln College, Canterbury was made independent of the University of Canterbury.
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List of food cooperatives
The following is a list of food cooperative grocery stores and buyers groups, current and defunct.
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Local purchasing
Local purchasing is a preference to buy locally produced goods and services over those produced farther away.
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Localism (politics)
Localism describes a range of political philosophies which prioritize the local.
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Manure
Manure is organic matter, mostly derived from animal feces except in the case of green manure, which can be used as organic fertilizer in agriculture.
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Neologism
A neologism (from Greek νέο- néo-, "new" and λόγος lógos, "speech, utterance") is a relatively recent or isolated term, word, or phrase that may be in the process of entering common use, but that has not yet been fully accepted into mainstream language.
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New Oxford American Dictionary
The New Oxford university American Dictionary (NOAD) is a single-volume dictionary of American English compiled by American editors at the Oxford University Press.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Onslow County, North Carolina
Onslow County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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Organic farming
Organic farming is an alternative agricultural system which originated early in the 20th century in reaction to rapidly changing farming practices.
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Organic food
Organic food is food produced by methods that comply with the standards of organic farming.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Pierre Desrochers (politician)
Pierre Desrochers is a city councillor in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Poverty
Poverty is the scarcity or the lack of a certain (variant) amount of material possessions or money.
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Public health
Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting human health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals".
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.
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Rockingham County, North Carolina
Rockingham County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area (popularly referred to as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.
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Self-Reliance
"Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Slow Food
Slow Food is an organization that promotes local food and traditional cooking.
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Slow Money
"Slow Money", a 501(c)3 non-profit organisation based in Boulder, CO, has had considerable early impact pursuing its mission: To catalyze the flow of capital to local food enterprises and organic farms, connecting investors to the places where they live and “bringing money back down to earth.” Through their national gatherings, regional events and local activities, over $40 million has been invested into more than 400 small food enterprises around the United States.
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Small farm
The definition of a small farm has varied over time and by country.
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Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior
The Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior (SNEB) is an American non-profit organization that represents the professional interests of nutrition educators in the United States and worldwide.
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Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.
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Strolling of the Heifers
Strolling of the Heifers is an annual local food parade and festival hosted in Brattleboro, Vermont each year.
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Subsistence agriculture
Subsistence agriculture is a self-sufficiency farming system in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their entire families.
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Supply chain
A supply chain is a system of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer.
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Sustainability
Sustainability is the process of change, in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations.
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Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable agriculture is farming in sustainable ways based on an understanding of ecosystem services, the study of relationships between organisms and their environment.
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Sustainable distribution
Sustainable distribution refers to any means of transportation / hauling of goods between vendor and purchaser with lowest possible impact on the ecological and social environment, and includes the whole distribution process from storage, order processing and picking, packaging, improved vehicle loadings, delivery to the customer or purchaser and taking back packaging.
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Sustainable Table
Sustainable Table was created in 2003 by the nonprofit organization GRACE to help consumers understand the problems with our food supply and offer viable solutions and alternatives from sustainable agriculture.
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Terra Madre
Terra Madre is a network of food communities.
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The 100-Mile Diet
The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating (or Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally) is a non-fiction book written by Canadian writers Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon.
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The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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Transport
Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.
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United States farm bill
In the United States, the farm bill is the primary agricultural and food policy tool of the federal government.
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Urban agriculture
Urban agriculture, urban farming, or urban gardening is the practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in or around a village, town, or city.
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Urban area
An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment.
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Walmart
Walmart Inc. (formerly branded as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
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World Environment Day
World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated on the 5th of June every year, and is the United Nation's principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of our environment.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_food
