Blar i Faculty of Biosciences (BioVit) på emneord "agroecology"
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Agroecological practices in a context of climate change in Africa
(Master thesis, 2015-11-06)Climate change effects are already being felt across Africa. Global warming, increasing rainfall variability and extreme events multiplication accentuate the risks for peasants who often already have to deal with natural ... -
Api-Tourism as added-value : the case of La Ruta de la Miel in Chile
(Master thesis, 2014-08-12)95% of all honey produced in Chile is exported as a bulk commodity. This means that more than 10,000 individual beekeepers from around the country are combining together their product, homogenizing it, irradiating it, and ... -
Colorado cannabis : soft systems analysis of an emerging industry
(Master thesis, 2016-08-11)The objective of this study is to describe ways in which rural producers participate in the cannabis industry in Colorado. With recently changed laws permitting hemp and drug-type cannabis cultivation, cannabis could be ... -
Economic analysis of small scale organic farming in mid-range alpine context : a case study implemented at la Berthe Farm, Savoie, France
(Master thesis, 2015-12-03)The future of agriculture is an essential issue for the next decades. One of the most sustainable answers to it is Agroecology. Collective farms developing organic small scale agriculture are a promising alternative to ... -
An exploratory study of the behavior of horses performing weed control in vineyards : Caract-Equivigne project
(Master thesis, 2022)In this master's thesis, we have elaborated an ethogram of draught horses plowing down ridges in the vineyard by observing videos of these horsing working, and by providing the most precise definitions and illustrations ... -
Farm-based education for food system transformation
(Master thesis, 2022)Food systems education is being studied as a “vital strategy” in transforming the current food system paradigm away from globalization and industrialization and towards a system which enables community-level food sovereignty, ... -
From feed to food : how a culinary focused transition enabled Copenhagen’s public meal system to convert to using 90% organic food at no extra cost
(Master thesis, 2020)Our world faces a socio-ecological crisis, and our food system is a significant contributor to that crisis. We must seek to turn our food system into a contributor towards regenerating our earth systems. To do that we ... -
Goat farming systems : a diagnosis of goat sector at the scale of farms in Centre-Val de Loire Region, France
(Master thesis, 2017-01-02)The goat sector in Centre-Val de Loire Region, France is highlighted by its five PDOs, its important volume of milk produced (63 million of litres in 2014) and its high rate of on-farm cheese processing (40% of the volume). ... -
A holistic view of Maraîchage sur Sol Vivant : participatory action research with a group of market gardeners in France
(Master thesis, 2020)A recent farmer-led movement called Maraîchage sur Sol Vivant (MSV) or in English, “market gardening on living soil” gathers market gardeners that develop agroecological cropping practices that place soil at heart of their ... -
Taming nitrogen : recognizing N2O emissions in fertilization practice
(Master thesis, 2016-08-11)Atmospheric nitrous oxide (N2O) is a greenhouse gas resulting from an imbalanced global nitrogen cycle. Although agricultural soils emit the majority of anthropogenic N2O, it is rarely considered in soil management practice. ...