Research themes in the cultural geography of domesticated animals, 1974-1987 in Festschrift to honor Frederick J. Simoons.
of Africa| the sacred cow of India| the pig complex of Melanesia| pastoralism| domesticated animals and human food| and domesticated animals and human diseases. - (DWG)
Review of literature organized into ten themes : origins of earliest animal domestication| domestication and dispersal of particular species| domesticated animals as agents in vegetation change| dairying and lactose intolerance| cattle complex
Reimagining the food system, the economy, and urban life : new urban chicken-keepers in US cities
Agrosystem ; Food ; Livestock farming ; Relations between human and animal bodies ; United States of America ; Urban area ; Urban ecology ; Washington State
Agrosystème ; Alimentation ; Ecologie urbaine ; Elevage ; Espace urbain ; Etats-Unis ; Imaginaire urbain ; Poules ; Relation homme-animal ; Système alimentaire ; Washington State
imaginaries. In interviews, participants critique the industrial food system, urban economies and social life, and “think differently” about human-animal relations and productive animals in cities. Through these practices, they establish sustainable backyard
This article examines the food system, the economy, and urban life through new urban chicken-keepers in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington State. It shows that they do it as an explicit effort to promote and enact alternative urban
agro-ecosystems, build sociability, resist consumerism, and work simultaneously to improve the life and health of animals, humans, and the urban environment.
The role of animals in an arid ecosystem: snails and isopods as controllers of soil formation, erosion and desalinization
Arid area ; Biogenic process ; Ecosystem ; Fauna ; Food chain ; Israel ; Negev ; Pedogenesis ; Soil erosion ; Soil moisture
The AA. use the snails and isopods as case studies to examine: 1) the relationships between activities of animals and abiotic resource dynamics. Here the concept of ecological flow chains is used to explicitly interrelate the flows of energy
and materials controlled by biotic and abiotic factors; 2) the relationship between animal density to the spatial and temporal dynamics of soil formation.
Agricultural production ; Agriculture ; Climatic variation ; Poland ; Self-sufficiency in food ; Spatial distribution
Under both (GISS and GFDL) climatic scenarios the self-sufficiency of food production in Poland may be maintened, provided that special adaptational measures are adopted. Among them are : complex organization of rural infrastructure ; the developing
of guidelines regarding the spatial distribution of types of agricultural production ; plant breeding for new cultivars better adapted to the changed conditions ; the adjusting of animal production to possibilities of fodder production at the given time, as well
The six articles deal with the dimension and dynamic of globalizing food crises ; the food crisis and food security in the emerging economy of India ; the urban food crisis in Cairo, the exposure and resistance ; urban food security with creative
agricultural utilization of the urban areas (for example under high voltage cables) with case studies of Tanzania and Philippines; from food aid towards food assistance, food security in times of global food scarcity ; climate change with floods and storms
Agricultural development ; Agricultural economics ; Agricultural production ; Agricultural system ; Agriculture ; Animal production ; Asia ; Case history ; Developing countries ; Ecological damage ; Feeding ; Food crop ; Food habit ; Food industry
; Food security ; Foodstuff ; High yielding variety ; Horticulture ; India ; Industrial crop ; Malnutrition ; Nutrition ; Nutritive value ; Plant production ; Poverty ; Tropical zone
desarrollo ; Planta industrial ; Pobreza ; Producción agrícola ; Producción animal ; Produccíon vegetal ; Producto alimenticio ; Seguridad alimentaria ; Sistema agrario ; Valor nutritivo ; Variedad gran rendimiento ; Zona tropical
Aborigines ; Adaptation ; Australia ; Exploration ; Food ; Food habit ; Historical geography ; Nineteenth Century ; Self-sufficiency in food
of kangaroo dogs, the willingness to consume even the least appetising animals made explorers less dependent on what they could carry. Such skills were to become largely irrelevant after 1840, as fully mounted expeditions began to penetrate the interior, where
Food policy conflicts in food-deficit developing countries
Bangladesh ; Conflict ; Food ; Food policy ; Food production ; Government intervention ; Malnutrition ; Third World
The paper concentrates on answering these food policy questions for food-deficit developing countries, taking detailed examples from Bangladesh but pointing out similarities and differences elsewhere in the third world. Conflicts are generally seen
Metropolitan food systems in developing countries: the perspective of urban metabolism
Cities of hunger. Urban food systems in developing countries
Food ; Food consumption ; Food security ; Social reproduction ; Third World ; Town ; Urban supply
The paper focuses on urban food metabolism, by using the concept of the food system which includes the sub-systems of production, supply, distribution and consumption of food.
The A. explains Iraq's precipitous decline into food insecurity following its military invasion of Kuwait. Food security and insecurity are defined and examined in Iraq context. Five vulnerabilities are identified that are activated by international
retaliation against Iraq. The emergence and intensification of food insecurity are analyzed step by step, followed by consideration of how food security might be restored.
In Khartoum, availability of food is not a major constraint in the dynamics of the food system. Of more significance for the configuration of the space of vulnerability are the processes related to affordability and accessibility.