Food Development Centre Home Page - Manitoba Agriculture, Food And Rural Initiat An agency of the Manitoba's Department of agriculture, Food and rural Initiatives, working on agrifood product manufacturing pilot plant services, product and process development, sensory analysis, shelf life studies and HACCP plan development. http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/fdc/
The University Of Wisconsin College Of Agricultural And Life Sciences Official home page for this university unit engaged in education and research on food and agriculture, the life sciences, natural resource and environmental stewardship, and rural community development. http://www.cals.wisc.edu/
Extractions: To assist organisations seeking ways to increase the availability of rural financial services, the Rural Finance Learning Centre contains a database of resources organised into topics, online self study lessons and session guides for training programmes. Users of the Learning Centre can suggest new resources, take part in discussions and find out about training opportunities and events related to rural finance. The emphasis is on sharing experiences and providing information about useful innovations.
Asia Bookroom: China - Rural Life Essays in ruralUrban Relations. With Six life-Histories of Chinese Gentry Families rural China. xiv + 784pp, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, http://www.asiabookroom.com/currentlists_xAsia/chirural.htm
Extractions: Global Service Personal Attention China - Rural Life Fei Hsiao-Tung. China's Gentry. Essays in Rural-Urban Relations. With Six Life-Histories of Chinese Gentry Families collected by Yung-Teh Chow and Introduction by Robert Fedfield. Black and white text illustrations, v + 289pp, index, pictorial upper cover, paper wrapped trifle chipped and marked. Revised and edited. University of Chicago Press. Chicago. 1953. (ISBN ). AU$40.00 [Please quote ID:5560 when referring to this item] Chinese Village, Socialist State. Maps, black and white illustrations, tables, xxiv + 336pp, appendix, index, small bump upper edge, but still a very good paperback copy. Reprint. Yale Uni. Press. New Haven. 1991. This detailed portrait of social change in the North China plain depicts how the world of the Chinese peasant evolved during an era of war and revolution and how it in turn shaped the revolutionary process. (ISBN ). AU$24.00 [Please quote ID:65393 when referring to this item] Hayes, James. South China Village Culture. Endpaper maps, colour and black and white plates, 84pp, glossary, bibliography, index. Images of Asia. Oxford University Press. Hong Kong. 2001.
Rural History | University Of Guelph rural History, Farming, Farm, Food, agriculture, rural life, Countryside, Canada,History, Harvesting, Settlement, rural, Culture, Veterinary, Agricultural http://www.uoguelph.ca/ruralhistory/
Extractions: Research in rural history at the University of Guelph aims to transcend simplified views and distortions about the past. Guelphâs historians and their colleagues seek to understand rural men and women, families and communities from their own viewpoints, as they sought to shape themselves and their society. Rural history here includes farming and agriculture, but encompasses the whole history of (and images of) rural society, politics, economy, and institutions. Until quite recently, most people lived in rural settings. Yet most history has been written from the perspective of town-dwellers. Often, the rural world has been less understood than stylized, as a contrast, good or bad, with the city: if the urban is dynamic, the countryside is static; if the urban is progressive, the rural is traditional; if the urban is bad, the rural is good; if the city is artificial, the rural is natural. Studying â and serving â rural communities has been a core orientation of the University of Guelph since its origins as an agricultural college. The Department of History has long shared this interest, as was recognized in 2002 by the establishment of the Canada Research Chair in Rural History. Today a number of historians (faculty and graduate students) are pursuing research on rural subjects in widely varied contexts. This website highlights what we do and seeks to assist students and scholars, at Guelph and elsewhere. It offers information on sources (at present mainly, but not only, in a Canadian context) and selective links to relevant material at and beyond Guelph. Through it, we hope to encourage research in and debates about the field. The site will continue to evolve. We welcome suggestions: advice, information, comments, and criticism.
Food, Farming And Famine index to articles, books and reports dealing with agricultural economics and rural Many of the Southern and Western diaries deal with rural life. http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/history/bi/env450/
Extractions: Background Sources Locating Books Locating Articles Government Reports ... Citing Electronic Sources The items in this bibliography can help you find information on your research topic. Many are available electronically through local library networks, the campus network or on the World Wide Web. Databases marked UW Only require that you access these from computers on campus or from home using UWICK or the libraries proxy server Encyclopedias and dictionaries provide background information and can be used to identify key people, events and dates which can then be used as search terms for finding abritional information. More importantly, because encyclopedias often cover the major issues surrounding the subect, they can help you narrow your research from a broad who, what, where, when topic to a how or why question. In abrition many encyclopedia articles include short bibliographies that will lead you to the major works on the topic. Britannica Online [UW Only
Agriculture Resources This Cornell University College of agriculture and life Sciences site offerspictures, It offers search engines and links in areas such as rural health, http://www.educationindex.com/ag/
Extractions: Agriculture Resources SM A B C D ... K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z AgNews offers everything from breaking news (with archives) to research and education to a Texas treasure hunt. The site includes two dozen categories of interesting information and links, with entries like nutrition, forestry, wildlife, and veterinary medicine in addition to ag economics and ag education. A great resource. Numerous agriculture links related to farms, ranches, markets, associations, research, weather, plus the invitation to "skip the serious stuff and go straight to Mr. Potato Head." (We recommend it!) If you're on the farming front lines, this is your site. Many partnerships have helped this site's publishers develop a huge repository of information, with weather updates, for sale listings, tons of technology plus Crop Scouting Talk ("How's your winter wheat look?"), Cattle Offerings Worldwide (COW!), much more. This U.S. Department of Agriculture agency has put together an attractive site explaining their function and including "news and information" and good links.
Extractions: The Museum, based at Wiltshire College Lackham, originated as a collection of agricultural implements and machinery brought together by the staff and students when it first opened its doors as a County School of Agriculture in 1946. Today its collections and displays are broadly focussed upon the agricultural practices and the rural life of the County of Wiltshire. Collections description
Agriculture Rural Life, The Henry Ford Learn about the agriculture rural life collections at The Henry Ford. For eachcategory, you can view a selection of objects chosen by the curators. http://www.hfmgv.org/collections/Collections/agriculture.asp
Extractions: The Henry Ford has the most comprehensive collection of artifacts documenting technological change in agricultural tools and machinery in the United States. The collection contains Colonial American plows, reapers from the 1800s, and tractors and combines from the twentieth century. This collection depicts the increasing mechanization and scale that promotes consolidation in American agriculture.
BBC - North East Wales Webguide - Rural Life Web links for rural community. rural life. Farming From the EU to beekeeping -this section provides links on all aspects of agriculture. http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/webguide/pages/farming.shtml
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Agriculture And The American Midwest What images of rural agricultural life have emerged over time and how have theseimages affected the way the Midwest is perceived? How has agriculture been http://www.acad.carleton.edu/curricular/GEOL/classes/geo120/
Extractions: Instructors:Mary Savina: Mudd 164, x4404, email: msavina@carleton.edu Mike Kowalewski: Laird 210, x4323, email: mkowalew@carleton.edu Syllabus and Calendar Labs and class assignments Service Projects Post-Silent Spring : pesticide information resources Useful Websites Farm Quiz Photo Gallery You Might be a Farmer if Fifth Year Intern: Caitilin Daum, email: Caitilin.Daum@alumni.carleton.edu Please email any comments to: msavina@carleton.edu This class was taught during the fall term of 2000 and concluded in November, 2000. It was made possible by a grant from the Minnesota Agricultural Education Leadership Council. Follow this link to view their website - MAELC . This grant funded the fifth year intern, Caitilin Daum. An article about this course can be read in the November 17, 2000 issue of Chronicle for Higher Education, page A18. Syllabus Communicating Class and Written Work Schedule of Class Periods, Field Trips, and Labs Grading ... Calendar These two dyad (linked) courses will focus on agriculture, especially agriculture in the Midwest. Literary scholars and scientists are both intrigued by the place of agriculture in our society but they go about asking and answering questions in distinctive ways. For instance, geologists might examine the climate of the 1930s and 1940s by studying instrumental records and comparing this period to longer-term climate records of the past. Studying the literature and films of the period, historians and literary scholars might explore the cultural roots of the Dust Bowl crisis and its effect on American life. By combining these two approaches, a more holistic view of these issues may emerge. Here are some questions that point toward possible links in these approaches:
Agriculture, Agricultural Policy And Development: Collecting Policy Encyclopedia of agricultural science Encyclopedia of life sciences The Museumof English rural life is a designated Museum with archival library and http://www.library.rdg.ac.uk/colls/policies/agriculture.html
Extractions: News About the Library Resources Collections Subject guides Help and training UoR Home Library Home Collections Subject collecting policies Liaison Librarians: Tim Chapman Related collecting policies: This statement covers Library provision for the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development . The School consists of three intra-school departments, namely Agriculture, Agricultural and Food Economics, and International and Rural Development. The collections serve all staff and students in the School, together with staff and students in related schools in the Faculty of Life Sciences notably Plant Sciences, Animal and Microbial Sciences (AMS), as well as social science based units such as Economics, Sociology, and the Institute of Education. The subject is interdisciplinary and there are a number of overlaps, in terms of coverage, with other Schools in the University:
Extractions: Biodiversity and Livelihoods Group (BLG) Climate Change Programme (CCP) Corporate Responsibility for Environment and Dev. (CRED) Drylands Programme Environmental Economics Programme (EEP) Forestry and Land Use (FLU) Global Governance Human Settlements Millenium Development Goals Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) Rural Urban Strategies, Planning and Assessment (SPA) Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods (SARL) Tourism Trade World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) IIED Headlines September 2005 IIED Sahel becomes IED Afrique IIED Sahel has been engaged over the last 2 years, in a strategic reflection process aimed at setting up an independent organisation. Thanks to the very strong support from the Drylands Programme and IIED as a whole, this process has come to its final step and I am very pleased to announce that as of September 1 st The Green Room is a collaborative effort by a range of partners from the UN family, the NGO community, and beyond, to communicate the central role of environmental sustainability in development planning. The eight time-bound Millennium Development Goals, which must be achieved by 2015, are all linked by an environmental thread, without which global development plans may unravel. For more informaton, visit:
Extractions: Issues ... Field Trips Introduction to the Rural Life and Agriculture Tour On this tour you are going to be taken to four farms. Each farm is very different and each have their own set of economic problems. As you become aware of these you could perhaps reflect on the causes and possible solutions. % of GDP in agriculture, industry and service 1997 Agriculture Much agricultural output is subsistence, growing maize and other crops for family consumption, and does not reach the market place. Most of the marketed maize output is produced by the mainly white settler run commercial farms. However there are an increasing number of small and medium scale African farms producing cash crops such as maize or sorghum and sweet potato. It will become apparent through the tour how important the maize crop is to rural communities. However, at present due to low levels of productivity, recent droughts and lack of investment in the agricultural sector the farms have been unable to produce enough maize, the staple crop, to meet the annual domestic demand resulting in increasing quantities being imported from South Africa.
