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Bartell, Christopher R. "FOOD-ASTRUCTURE: Re-Articulating the Architectural Space of Food Distribution." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337287544.
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Lane, Jordan. "Urban Shepherd : Cultivating space, food and us." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-146240.
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Urban shepherd advocates the design and implementation of coherent productive living systems in urban environments. Central to urban shepherd is the creation of multifunctional urban space networks designed to improve ecosystem health while meeting human needs by inducing top-down institutional and bottom-up individual change. Urban Shepherd creates such change through a strategic vision, process and system. Exploring the urban experience through social and environmental landscape use, community ecologies and future architectural practice, urban shepherd offers effective practices of experimentation, future urban natures and the occasional sighting of sheep, pigs and chickens.Urban Shephard förespråkar utformningen och tillämpningen av naturliga system integrerade i vår urbana miljö. I fokus ligger skapandet av det multifunktionella urbana systemet, designat att förbättra de befintliga ekosystemen och samtidigt möta människors behov genom att möjliggöra förändringar på såväl systemnivå som för enskilda individer. Genom att utforska arkitekturens roll i det sociala och praktiska användandet av det urbana rummet med hänsyn till samhällets behov av anknytningen till naturen, kan Urban Shepherd erbjuda effektiva lösningar i nydanande urbana miljöer med hjälp av en och annan gris, ko och höna.
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Tomkins, Mikey. "Making space for food : everyday community food gardening and its contribution to urban agriculture." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2014. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/4efe7b08-df19-4e36-ad16-d9b62a6b00b6.
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This thesis presents research on community food gardens as an example of urban agriculture. It aims to provide evidence on the factors that influence their ability to produce food. Drawing on participant observation methods, and interviews with community food gardeners, on six London housing estates in 2010, this thesis explores the everyday community food garden practices of residents. It explores the factors that influence food growing, from discourse, everyday practice, and spatial interactions of those who garden. Key results show that the process of transforming, constructing, and inhabiting material space occupies residents’ time, leading to a reduced emphasis on food production. The research concludes that food harvests as an edible outcome are only sought in quantities relative to confirming the embodied situation of social practices, a key aspect of which is the need to gain spatial sovereignty over the estates’ landscape.
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Sheppard, Alison Marguerite. "Curbside eating : mobilizing food trucks to activate public space." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81740.
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Thesis (M.C.P. and S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2013.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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In the past 5 years, cities across the United States have seen the rise of a new form of street vending: the modern food truck. Nearly overnight, food trucks have become an expected and anticipated occurrence in many metropolitan areas throughout the country. The trucks are a new and unique typology in the street food landscape of the US. Since 2008, they have entered cities peddling gourmet food items, catering to a young, hip clientele, and skillfully using mobile technologies as a business strategy. Despite predictions that the trend was simply a passing fad, the phenomenon has already established deep roots in many cities. As a result, trucks are having major economic, social, and spatial impacts in the cities that they inhabit. This thesis explores the numerous spatial benefits of these trucks; in particular, it analyzes the ability of the trucks to activate underused public spaces. Food trucks can act as a magnet in otherwise ubiquitous landscapes by bringing people to sidewalks, alleyways, and parking lots that otherwise go unused. This ability to create hubs of activity and interaction can be capitalized on by planners, policy-makers, and designers seeking on-the-ground, low-investment mechanisms to improve the urban environment. This thesis explores these spatial benefits through the lens of Los Angeles, widely acknowledged as the birthplace and epicenter of the food truck trend. Throughout this paper, successful examples of spaces enhanced by food trucks are used to understand what elements must be present in order for food trucks to capitalize on their unique opportunity to improve public spaces. Based on these patterns, a process is proposed through which food truck location strategies can be generated. The resulting strategies are meant to select locations in which food trucks are not only economically and physically viable, but are also optimal in terms of their potential for activation. The process can be adapted to a range of situations, accounting for the flexibility and context-specificity demanded by the nature of the food truck trend.
by Alison Marguerite Sheppard.
M.C.P.and S.B.
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Hall, William. "(Un)Making the Food Desert: Food, Race, and Redevelopment in Miami's Overtown Community." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3033.
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In recent years, efforts to transform food environments have played a key role in urban revitalization strategies. On one hand, concerns over urban food deserts have spurred efforts to attract supermarkets to places where access to healthy food is difficult for lower income residents. On the other, the creation of new spaces of consumption, such as trendy restaurants and food retail, has helped cities rebrand low-income communities as cultural destinations of leisure and tourism. In cities around the US, these processes often overlap, converting poorer neighborhoods into places more desirable for the middle-class. My dissertation research examines the social and historical forces that have given rise to these twin processes in Miami’s poorest neighborhood, Overtown, a historically Black community on the cusp of rapidly encroaching gentrification.
My project incorporates a mix of methods from urban geography, anthropology, and the emerging geohumanities, including geospatial mapping, historical analysis, participatory observation, and in-depth interviews. In triangulating these methods, I first unearth Overtown’s vibrant food environment during Jim Crow segregation and then trace its decline through urban renewal, expressway construction, and public divestment, focusing particularly on the dismantling of Black food businesses. I also investigate the spatial politics of recent urban agriculture projects and community redevelopment practices, the latter of which aim to remake Overtown as a cultural dining and entertainment district in the image of its former heydays.
This research is theoretically informed by and contributes to work on urban foodscapes, urban geographies of race, and African American foodways. Based on my empirical findings, I argue that redevelopment practices in Overtown are undermining networks of social and economic interdependency in the existing foodscape, effectively reproducing the spatial and racial urbicide once delivered by more overt forms of racism. By linking place-based racial histories to the production of inequitable urban food systems, this research reveals the underlying geographies of struggle and dispossession that have shaped the production of both food deserts and gentrifying foodie districts.
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Rich, Rachel. "Bourgeois consumption : food, space and identity in London and Paris, 1850-1914." Thesis, University of Essex, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413253.
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Tway, Timothea Larisa. "ROVING RESTAURANTS: MOBILE FOOD VENDORS AT THE INTERSECTION OF PUBLIC SPACE AND POLICY." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2011. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/557.
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Recent advancements in social networking and technology, and the increasing popularity of “gourmet” food trucks, have brought renewed attention to mobile food vending. Research indicates that vendors can provide inexpensive food to city dwellers and have a positive impact on the vibrancy of public spaces. The recent popularity of vendors, however, has fueled ongoing debates over public space use and regulation. Municipalities are looking to craft policies to appease community members with a range of opinions on the acceptability of vending on public streets. This thesis uses the case study of Los Angeles to attempt to answer the research question: What are the relationships among policies on food vendors, food vendors, and the public’s use and perception of urban space? The study triangulates information gathered from public space user surveys, behavior mapping and observation, in-depth interviews, and archival research to address this research question. Findings indicate that vending can contribute to vibrancy and activity in public spaces, and public space users generally perceive vendors positively. Findings of the research also suggest, however, that some public spaces do not provide adequate amenities for food truck customers and public space users. These, and other findings, are used to inform the policy and planning recommendations presented in this study.
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Höijer, Karin. "Contested Food : The Construction of Home and Consumer Studies as a Cultural Space." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kostvetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-204458.
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Education about and for the home has been part of the Swedish education system for over one hundred years, and Home and Consumer Studies (HCS) has been compulsory for all pupils since the common nine-year school system was introduced in 1962. For all this time food has been a central theme, however we know very little of what food means in this context. The aim of this thesis was to seek to understand the construction of food in HCS. This thesis consists of four papers that explore food in HCS from the perspective of teachers and pupils, the role of the classroom and how food in HCS is part of a larger cultural context. Observations and focus group interviews were used to collect data. The material consists of field notes from 13 days in three HCS classrooms and transcripts of focus group interviews with 25 HCS-teachers and 20 pupils. The analytical methods used were based on social constructionist assumptions which were supplemented by theories on culture, space and spatiality. Results show that teachers constructed both pupils’ homes and society in general as deficient in relation to health. Their role, as public health commissioners, was to educate pupils about food on issues such as health and sustainability. Pupils relied on their personal experiences from home to make sense of food in HCS. To them, home was the authentic place for food where everyday life took place. Food in HCS on the other hand was de-authenticised and sometimes hard to make sense of. This meant that there was a limited shared understanding between pupils and teachers. A spatial analysis of the HCS classroom as a learning space for food showed that past ideologies and traditional power geometries were built into the physical layout and social relationships constructing the room. Food in HCS was found to reflect cultural values of the surrounding society at the same time as a specific HCS cuisine emerged. Food in HCS was thus constructed as contested in interaction between food, pupils, teachers and classroom as well as in relation to a wider context.
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Einarsson, A. "Use of space in relation to food in Icelandic Barrow's goldeneyes (Bucephala islandica)." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.383593.
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McCoy, Ashley L. "Food Deserts in the Inland Empire: Locating Space for Urban Gardens in Ontario, California." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/96.
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Food insecurity is defined as “a household‐level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food” (USDA Economic Research Service 2009). Low‐income households tend to be food insecure for many reasons. The first and most obvious would be the access to monetary resources. If a household does not have a sufficient income, it is difficult to keep an adequate amount of food for all household members at all times. Another reason would be that many low‐income households cannot afford a car and/or do not have easy access to public transportation or reliable private transportation.
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Helmisaari, Tommi. "Changing food choices in a changing city : Vietnamese youth in contemporary Hanoi." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturantropologiska avdelningen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-263275.
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ABSTRACT This thesis discusses the changing society and how the urban setting affects how and where people spend their time socializing and eating. The city of Hanoi has undergone changes, which have had an impact on people’s movements, consumption choices and street traders’ livelihood in the city. There are also issues with housing that have arisen, mainly because the city’s expanding growth. The youth of today are living in quite a different social context society than their parents and especially grandparents, due to economic reforms that have rapidly increased the foreign investment and flow of information from the outside world. This has led to some diverging and sometimes conflicting opinions arising from people of different ages possibly having other ideals and values than their parents and grandparents. The state ideals and global influences also affect people’s behaviour and opinions and food choices. I will describe the food scene and changes that have happened to it, due to foreign influences and trade. This study is mainly based on secondary sources, combined with a case study of young people’s eating out food choices based upon my own fieldwork in Hanoi, Vietnam from February to April, 2013. I will situate and contextualize what part food plays for the youths and exploring the difference between street food and fast food and why people would choose one over the other.
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Presswood, Alane L. "Add Rhetoric and Stir: A Critical Analysis of Food Blogs as Contested Domestic Space." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1493814707254158.
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Balogh, Péter, Daniel Bekesi, Matthew Gorton, József Popp, and Péter Lengyel. "Consumer willingness to pay for traditional food products." Elsevier, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2016.03.005.
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Reflecting the growing interest from both consumers and policymakers, and building on recent developments
in Willingness to Pay (WTP) methodologies, we evaluate consumer preferences for an archetypal
traditional food product. Specifically we draw on stated preference data from a discrete choice
experiment, considering the traditional Hungarian mangalitza salami. A WTP space specification of the
generalized multinomial logit model is employed, which accounts for not only heterogeneity in preferences
but also differences in the scale of the idiosyncratic error term. Results indicate that traditional food
products can command a substantial premium, albeit contingent on effective quality certification,
authentic product composition and effective choice of retail outlet. Promising consumer segments and
policy implications are identified. (authors' abstract)
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Abedania, Jaren. "Spatializing Commensality: The City as Public Dining Room." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397476882.
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Keeley, Ernest Robert. "Behavioural and demographic responses to food and space competition by juvenile steelhead trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ27176.pdf.
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Nothnagel, Werner Otto. "Table rules : reprogramming dead or under-used space through the intervention of food and architecture." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07282008-142000.
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Gaarde, Ingeborg. "Negotiating a Global Policy Space : la Via Campesina in the Committee on World Food Security." Paris, EHESS, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EHES0008.
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Les modèles dominants des études de mouvements sociaux nationaux décrivent l'institutionnalisation de ces mouvements comme un modèle qui mène à la dé-radicalisation et la cooptation (Kriesi, 1996; Tilly, 2004, Tarrow, 2008; Walker, 1994; Blumer, 1951). Cette thèse explore comment La Via Campesina (LVC), mouvement paysan international réunissant plus de 200 millions de petits producteurs dans 80 pays du monde construit un modèle d'internationalisation beaucoup plus sophistiqué que les précédents modèles. Pour illustrer cela, notre étude présente comment la LVC s'engage au sein du Comité de la Sécurité Alimentaire mondiale (CSA) à travers le Mécanisme de la société civile (MSC). Basées sur la recherche à la fois « multi-sites » et « multi-échelles », les données empiriques de cette thèse ont été recueillies à la fois dans les au sein de l'ONU et lors de réunions globales et locales de mouvements paysans. Cette approche nous permet d'explorer les différentes dimensions des tensions et des débats animant ce mouvement, ainsi que possibilités et défis au sein d'un mouvement cherchant à établir des liens entre les luttes initiées au niveau local et couplées au niveau global. Cette étude conclut que si nous cherchons à explorer davantage comment les mouvements sociaux globaux aujourd'hui cherchent à créer des synergies entre des différents formes d'activisme politique, nous devons aller au-delà des dichotomies et favoriser des cadres d'analyse moins déterministes que ceux qui ont largement dominé la littérature des mouvements sociaux nationauxThe dominant models in social movement studies expect movements to either disappear or to institutionalise following a pattern that has inevitable endpoints. Such as "taming" (Kaldor, 2003), de-radicalisation, co-optation and elite-formation (Kriesi, 1996; Tilly, 2004; Tarrow, 2008; Walker, 1994; Blumer, 1951). This dissertation argues that La Via Campesina (LVC), the global peasant movement that brings together over 200 million small producers in 80 countries of the word, is building a more sophisticated model of internationalisation. In order to demonstrate this, the dissertation present some of the opportunities and challenges arising from the current engagement of small-scale food producers in the 2009-reformed Committee on World Food Security (CFS) through the International Food Security & Nutrition Civil Society Mechanism (CSM). With empirical data collected both in UN arenas and at global and local meetings of farmers' movements, the dissertation explores the tensions and debates within a movement seeking to build links between struggles initiated at grassroots level and engagement in a global policy arena. The dissertation concludes that if we wish to further explore how global movements seek to build synergies between different forms of political activism today, we need to move beyond dichotomies and towards less deterministic analytical frameworks than those that have largely dominated the literature on national social movements
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Shrestha, Anuj Raj. "Feed my people food bank project a case study of space planning and costing of warehouse /." Online version, 2009. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2009/2009shresthaa.pdf.
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Smith, Kathryn. "Sating hunger in an age of plenty : the global food governance space and its role in the establishment of an effective food security regime." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15699.
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Contextualised in food security literature and globalisation literature and NGO and agency reports on food security, Sating Hunger argues that ineffective global food governance is one of the causes of worsening global hunger, in addition to issues such as the commoditisation of food, climate change effects, the financialisation of agriculture and land degradation. The global food governance literature suggests that global governance is vital to establishing a stable and effective food security regime, yet to date, no overall description of the global food governance field exists and the dynamics of the field have remained largely unexamined. Bourdieu's Field Analysis is modified and used as a method to map out the current food governance field and identify key actors and their positions, according to measures of economic capital, political capital and ‘democratic legitimacy' capital. Four sectors in the field are delineated; the ‘agrifood' Trans National Corporation sector, the International Organisation sector, the Aid and Charitable Organisation sector and, marginalised at the outer limits of the field, Civil Society Organisations. The dominance of private actors in the global food governance space is revealed, and the Field Analysis also presents the Gates Foundation as a dominant governor in the field. The results from the Field Analysis are combined with interviews with ten executives from these sectors to reveal a siloed food governance field with conflicting agendas. One organisation from each sector is also examined by case study to illustrate their practices and detail the attribution of the symbolic capitals in the Field Analysis. The problem of food insecurity is then reframed and recommendations are made including establishing the Right to Food, regulation and scrutiny of agrifood corporations, reform of the food governance field and establishing a new central body in the governance space. Some policy recommendations are also made.
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Jägermeyr, Jonas. "Assessing opportunities to increase global food production within the safe operating space for human freshwater use." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17802.
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Die Landwirtschaft ist heute der wichtigste Treiber der globalen Degradation von Ökosystemen. Es existiert jedoch wenig konkretes Wissen, wie Ökosysteme zu schützen sind und gleichzeitig die Nahrungsproduktion für die wachsende Weltbevölkerung gesichert werden kann. In dieser Dissertation untersuche ich Optimierungsmöglichkeiten im landwirtschaftlichen Wassermanagement. Ich quantifiziere praxisorientierte Verbesserungen der Regenwassernutzung und Optimierungen von Bewässerungssystemen, unter Einhaltung der „environmental flow requirements“ (EFRs). Um diese komplexen Interaktionen zu untersuchen, entwickle ich ein agro-hydrologisches Modell auf Basis detaillierter, mechanistischer Prozessabbildung weiter. Erstens, 39% der derzeitigen Wasserentnahmen für Bewässerung sind nicht nachhaltig und somit auf Kosten der Ökosysteme. Zweitens, solche lokalen Wasserentnahmegrenzen legen nahe, dass die globale Grenze für den menschlichen Wasserverbrauch deutlich niedriger liegt, als bisher angenommen (2800 vs 4000 km3yr-1). Drittens, die Implementierung von EFRs würde die landwirtschaftliche Produktion erheblich beeinträchtigen, mit >20% in stark bewässerten Gebieten. Verbesserte Nutzung des Niederschlagswassers und die Optimierung von Bewässerungssystemen, können die weltweite Nahrungsmittelproduktion allerdings um rund 40% nachhaltig steigern - ausreichend, um die Nahrungsmittellücke der wachsenden Weltbevölkerung bis 2050 zu halbieren. Zusammenfassend stellt diese Arbeit die erste umfassende und systematische Einschätzung globaler Potentiale der nachhaltigen Intensivierung der Landwirtschaft aus der Wasserperspektive dar. Die in dieser Arbeit vorgebrachten innovativen und quantitativen Erkenntnisse legen nahe, dass das Potential der diskutierten Interventionen höhere politische Aufmerksamkeit erfahren sollte. Meine Ergebnisse können eine konkretere Diskussion zur Umsetzung der Sustainable Development Goals untermauern.Agriculture is today''s most important driver of ecosystem degradation across scales. However, there is little evidence on how to attain the historic twin-challenge of maintaining environmental integrity while producing enough food for a growing world population. In this thesis, I assess opportunities in agricultural water management to reconcile future food needs with environmental limits to water use. I explore solution-oriented ways to improve rainfed and irrigation systems alike, while safeguarding environmental flows (EFRs). To study complex interactions quantitatively, I advanced a state-of-the-art global modeling framework based on detailed, mechanistic process representation. First, a systematic upscaling of EFRs to global coverage indicates that 39% of current freshwater withdrawals for irrigation are unsustainable and occur at the cost of ecosystems. Second, accounting for EFRs indicates that the planetary boundary for freshwater use might be notably lower (2800 vs. 4000 km3yr-1) than expected. Third, maintaining EFRs would significantly affect food production, cutting >20% of total kcal production across intensely irrigated areas. Fourth, improving irrigation systems in combination with optimizing the use of precipitation water, provides effective and accessible measures to compensate for adverse impacts from protecting EFRs and climate change. Such integrated interventions could sustainably intensify global food production (+40% kcal) to the degree sufficient to halve the global food gap by 2050. In conclusion, this thesis provides the first comprehensive and systematic assessment of hitherto largely unquantified water opportunities in sustainable intensification of agriculture. While requiring corroboration by finer-scale research, the innovative quantitative foundation provided in this thesis suggests that farm water management merits a rise in political attention, and it can inform a more comprehensive discussion of related SDG target interactions.
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Ritterskamp, Daniel [Verfasser], Bernd [Akademischer Betreuer] Blasius, and Frank [Akademischer Betreuer] Hilker. "Evolutionary dynamics in food webs : influence of resources and space / Daniel Ritterskamp. Betreuer: Bernd Blasius ; Frank Hilker." Oldenburg : BIS der Universität Oldenburg, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1077866844/34.
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Ritterskamp, Daniel Verfasser], Bernd [Akademischer Betreuer] [Blasius, and Frank [Akademischer Betreuer] Hilker. "Evolutionary dynamics in food webs : influence of resources and space / Daniel Ritterskamp. Betreuer: Bernd Blasius ; Frank Hilker." Oldenburg : BIS der Universität Oldenburg, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:715-oops-26098.
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Saari, Trent Adam. "Democratizing the City Through the Colonization of Public Space: A Case Study of Portland Food Not Bombs." PDXScholar, 2015. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2393.
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The implementation of neoliberal economic and political policies is often touted as a way to increase overall individual well-being and freedom. While these policies may benefit those already wielding economic security and political power, marginalized populations often bear the negative cost associated with such policies. As deregulation and privatization increases, social safety nets and social spending are dramatically reduced. At the local level, liberalization has resulted in increased surveillance and regulation of public space. Organized resistance to global corporatization and increased economic and political marginalization has occurred across the globe. Resisting neoliberalism is complex as the adaptability of the state and capital requires an adaptive form of resistance. Portland Food Not Bombs provides an empirical example of an oppositional social movement organization that resists neoliberal logic and reclaims public space for collective use by serving free meals. This case study includes participant observation of both Portland FNB chapters conducted at chapter specific meal preparation and serving sites. It also includes ten interviews with individuals who are heavily involved with the SMO. Publicly available documents such as Facebook pages, chapter specific websites, and the FNB website provided important contextual information as well. This study finds that the organizational structure of Portland FNB lends itself to more democratic practices and ideals, coinciding with the values of the respondents. Through transparent, consensus decision-making and a resistance to formal leadership, Portland FNB facilitates a different form of political engagement. By using public space, Portland FNB temporarily alters the physical urban environment by socially constructing a more inclusive space, emphasizing that collectively using public space, is indeed a human right. Portland FNB seeks to create a more just society within the existing institutional framework, while rejecting practices associated with 501(c)(3) organizations and other mainstream SMOs.
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Digel, Christoph [Verfasser], Ulrich [Akademischer Betreuer] Brose, Stefan [Akademischer Betreuer] Scheu, and Mark [Akademischer Betreuer] Maraun. "Allometric structure and topology of food webs: Energetic constraints conserve food-web structure across ecosystems and space / Christoph Digel. Gutachter: Stefan Scheu ; Mark Maraun. Betreuer: Ulrich Brose." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1054191794/34.
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Vlach, Jiří. "Food availability in developing countries - new challenge for local producers or new export space for the EU exporters?" Master's thesis, Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-259055.
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Food security is influenced by many factors, which are divided into four categories according to FAO. Food Availability is one of these categories. It is closely connected with domestic food production as well as with international trade with food and with free movement of commodities on the international market. Countries in south Africa joined together and established South African Development Community (SADC) in 1992, which significantly changed their trade policies and their economics opened to international trade. The aim of this thesis was to evaluate, how these new conditions in international politics and trade affected the situation of food security and food availability in SADC countries. The research was based on common statistical analysis of secondary data developed by transnational organizations engaged in food security and international trade (FAOSTAT, WTO, World Bank). Results showed that the index of imported food to domestic food production has been growing in the last 10 years and it reached 51% in 2011. The food exports value and domestic production value are increasing as well and the average food import tariffs are decreasing. Also I proved some dependency of food imports to average dietary energy adequacy as well as dependency of domestic food production to average dietary energy adequacy. However with the use of comparative advantage method (RSCA) it was shown that SADC countries lost their comparative advantage in trade with food. The correlation of index of selected food security indicators to regional political stability was not proved.
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Lundgren, Lotten. "The Swedish bilberry industry : a case study on food commodification and spatial irrationalities." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-193898.
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Tello, Ramos Maria Cristina. "The foraging behaviour of hummingbirds through space and time." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7402.
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Central place foragers, such as territorial hummingbirds, feed from resources that tend to be constant in space and to replenish with time (e.g. nectar in flowers). The ability to remember both where and when resources are available would allow these animals to forage efficiently. Animals that feed at multiple locations would also benefit from forming routes between these multiple locations. Hummingbirds are thought to forage by repeating the order in which they visit several locations following a route called a “trapline”, although there are no quantitative data describing this behaviour. As a first step to determining how and if wild free living hummingbirds forage by traplining, I decomposed this behaviour into some of its key components. Through five field experiments, where I trained free-living hummingbirds to feed from artificial flowers, I confirmed that territorial hummingbirds will, in fact, trapline. Birds will use the shortest routes to visit several locations and will prioritize those locations that are closest to a usual feeding site. Additionally, even though hummingbirds can learn to use temporal information when visiting several patches of flowers, the spatial location of those patches has a larger influence in how these birds forage in the wild. Since male and female hummingbirds were thought to forage differently I also tested whether there were sex differences in the types of cues they use when foraging. Contrary to expectation, female hummingbirds will also use spatial cues to relocate a rewarded site. Using the foraging ecology of rufous hummingbirds to formulate predictions as to what information these birds should use has lead me to discover that these birds forage in a completely different way than previously thought.
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Cody, Sacha. "Exemplary Agriculture: Organic Farming and Urban/Rural Space in China." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110547.
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Exemplary agriculture is a grassroots alternative food movement in Shanghai, China and the surrounding countryside. At the movement’s centre are a group of 13 independent and small-scale organic farmers. This thesis outlines the movement’s formation and functioning, and discusses participants’ motivations and objectives. It also identifies relationships between movement activists and intellectuals, rural residents, volunteers on the farms and customers in the city. Exemplary agriculture is different to other alternative food movements because it is heavily influenced by the continuing legacies of state socialism. Two legacies in particular affect how exemplary agriculturalists think and act. The first is exemplarity, a form of morality and social governance that achieves order through leadership by example and the emulation of role models. Exemplarity and the promotion of role models has been a pillar of Chinese Communist Party policy since the 1940s. The second is the differentiation of the urban and the rural. The household registration system, established by the CCP in the 1950s, paved the way for the formation of powerful discourses of
urban/rural difference. These discourses polarise the city and the countryside into discrete spaces and identities with clearly demarcated boundaries, privileging the urban. Exemplary agriculturalists worry about the health of Chinese society and want to provide alternatives. By growing organic produce in the countryside and selling to customers in the city, they want to relieve Chinese urbanites from anxiety caused by food safety concerns. At a deeper level, they want to influence urban attitudes toward rural China and improve relations between the two groups. Exemplary agriculturalists adopt principles derived from rural culture and call on others to emulate them. They encourage urban residents to apply these principles to their own lives, thereby facilitating alternative and better ways of city living. In short, they borrow from the rural to help the urban.
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Impens, Yuri. "The public realm of covered food halls as the driver of a sense of place and conviviality : A case study of three covered food halls in Rotterdam." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-214666.
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In the modern consumer economy, experience is playing an increasingly important role. We are looking to buy a special but authentic experience, in particular when it comes to food consumption. These developments have led to a resurface and reinvention of the traditional covered market hall. New versions of the conventional concept have been created, and these covered food halls put emphasis on creating an attractive public realm for the visitor. However, the different versions of the covered food halls have different public realms with varied effects on the sense of place and conviviality for the visitor. The aim of this research is to find out what the drivers of the public realm of the modern covered food hall are, and to analyze how these influence, and can possibly improve the sense of place and conviviality. Three case studies of new covered food halls in Rotterdam provided valuable insights. From the theories it became apparent that there are four drivers of the public realm when it comes to the creation of a sense of place and conviviality: economical, social, cultural and political. The case studies showed the same result, however it has come to show that the tangible public realm is first and foremost the result of the intangible organization behind the covered food halls, relating to the political driver of the public realm. The structure and the aim of the organization determine the other 3 drivers, resulting in the physical structure of the public realm, and the activities that take place in the space. Within the physical realm, elements such as personalization, flexibility and transparency have shown to be crucial to create a sense of place and conviviality. The organization behind the hall also influences the activities that take place inside and around the hall. In order to possibly improve the public realm of the covered food hall, it is therefore important to start with finding a fitting organization for the aims and goals the covered food halls has as part of the public realm.
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Christian, Warren J. "Using Geospatial Technologies to Characterize Relationships between Travel Behavior, Food Availability, and Health." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/4.
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Epidemic obesity in the U.S. has prompted exploration of causal factors related to the built environment. Recent research has noted statistical associations between the spatial accessibility of retail food sources, such as supermarkets, convenience stores, and restaurants, and individual characteristics such as weight, socioeconomic status, and race/ethnicity. These studies typically use residential proximity or neighborhood density to food sources as the measure of accessibility. Assessing food environments in this manner, however, is very limiting. Since most people travel outside of their neighborhood on a daily basis, the retail food sources available to individuals residing in the same area could vary widely.
This research developed new techniques for describing food accessibility or food environments based upon individuals’ activity and travel patterns, or their activity spaces. Researchers have previously used travel diaries to study activity and travel behavior, but these are burdensome for participants, and are prone to recall error and other inaccuracies. This study explored use of global positioning system (GPS) to identify participants' activity spaces, and employed a geographic information system (GIS) to assess the retail food sources located within these spaces. This produced ‘activity-based’ measures of individual retail food accessibility that do not rely on areal units, nor require travel diaries.
Participants included 121 residents of a census tract in Lexington, Kentucky who agreed to carry GPS trackers for three workdays, and complete surveys regarding weight, socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, and diet and food purchasing habits. The types and relative frequencies of food locations within their activity spaces were compared to those within close proximity to the census tract. Dietary and food purchasing habits were subsequently analyzed in relation to activity-based food environment measures.
The results of this study demonstrate substantial potential for misclassification bias in food accessibility research based on residential proximity or neighborhood density. Furthermore, this study observed statistically significant relationships between the new activity-based food accessibility measures and some personal characteristics and food-related behaviors. Despite some limitations, the techniques developed in this research show great potential for future research, which should be explored further in a variety of contexts.
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Hacker, Charlotte. "The Examination of Enrichment Using Space and Food for African Elephants (Loxodonta Africana) at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park." TopSCHOLAR®, 2015. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1547.
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Concern for elephant welfare in zoological facilities has prompted a number of exhibit and management modifications, including those involving enrichment. Knowledge of how these changes impact measures of health and wellbeing, such as elephant movement and behavior, is crucial as the effects of multiple enrichment types and their interactions are largely understudied. The present study used observations and GPS unit collected data to determine the effects of space and food on the walking distance and behavior of thirteen African elephants, whose dominance structure was ascertained by the handlers at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park (SDZSP). This facility has two exhibits of approximately equal size. Three treatments were created to assess the effects of food and space enrichment: (1) access to half of the exhibit with food (Half); (2) access to both yards with food in one yard, or half the total exhibit space (Both/Half); and (3) access to both yards with food in both (Both). To account for mirrored effects, the reverse for Half and Both/Half were also completed. Significant differences across treatments were revealed for average total walking distances, which varied among elephants belonging to different dominance groups. Overall, treatment Both evoked the most diverse behavior. Walking and behavioral data were related, as were walking distances and elephant dominance rank. No such relationships were found between dominance and behavioral measures. The information obtained from this study has direct implications for the management of the SDZSP elephants and could be applicable for elephants at other facilities that consider the choices between increasing the size of exhibits and the use of other forms of enrichment.
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Eshpari, Hadi. "EVALUATION OF VACUUM PACKAGING ON THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES, SOLUBILITY, AND STORAGE SPACE OF DAIRY POWDERS." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2011. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/604.
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As many of the dairy powders manufactured have to travel long distances to reach their customers, both domestically and internationally, there is considerable interest among dairy powder manufacturers to maintain the quality of their products for relatively long storage periods. Dairy powders can have a long shelf life if packaged and stored properly. Vacuum packaging can be an attractive packaging strategy to maintain the quality of dairy powders and provide added value by improving the efficiency of using the storage space; because of the inherent compactness of these products. Vacuum packaged dry dairy ingredients may also have added ease of handling for end users. However, little is known about the impact of vacuum packaging on the physical properties of dry dairy ingredients. The main objective of this study was to determine the effect of vacuum packaging over 12 months storage on particle size, particle density, bulk density, tapped density, flowability, compressibility, color, moisture content, surface morphology, and solubility of six types of dairy powders. In addition, the effect of dairy ingredients type was also assessed. Commercial samples of nonfat dry milk powder, whole milk powder, buttermilk powder, milk protein Isolate, whey protein concentrate#80, and sweet whey powder were repackaged in duplicate using multi-wall foil side gusseted bags under varying degrees of vacuum (1, 0.7, 0.4 bar) and a control with no vacuum, then stored for 3, 6, and 12 months at 25°C and 60% relative humidity. Each powder was sampled and analyzed in duplicate for all the above listed quality attributes, upon receiving the powder and after 3, 6, and 12 months of storage.
Moreover, the effect of vacuum packaging on storage space was evaluated comparing three different models; Model (1) represented a 25 kg bag of atmospheric packaged non fat dry milk with the actual dimensions of a commercial 25 kg bag of non fat dry milk. Model (2), a hypothetical model, represented a 25 kg bag of vacuum packaged non fat dry milk with a length and a width equal to those of model (1). Model (3), another hypothetical model, also represented a 25 kg bag of vacuum packaged non fat dry milk with a length equal to half of a pallet width and a width equal to one third of a pallet length, in order to achieve the highest pallet efficiency possible. The pallet used for all three models was considered to be a (48 × 40) pallet. The height of models 2 and 3 was allowed to reflect the bulk reduction effect of vacuum packaging and was determined based on the weight, density and the known dimensions of the bags. It is important to note that the density of models 2 and 3 was assumed to be equal to the density of a small bag of nonfat dry milk. The saved space per bag and pallet efficiency of vacuum packaging and atmospheric packaging were compared using the three models described above.
Physical properties analyses of the dairy powders revealed statistically significant effect of vacuum pressure on only color values: L-, a-, and b but none of the other powder quality attributes examined. Powders packaged under vacuum showed a significantly higher mean of L- color value (p-value = 0.003 < 0.01), but significantly lower means of (a- and b-) color values (p-values = 0.005, and 0.001, respectively). This effect was more dramatic in high fat containing powder such as whole milk powder. In fact, vacuum packaged whole milk powders were significantly whiter, less red, and less yellow. It is likely that vacuum packaging has prevented color changes due to lipid oxidation in whole milk powder.
Physical properties analyses of the dairy powders also revealed statistically significant increases in the particle density, particle size, bulk density, and tapped density due to the effect of storage time (all p-values = 0.000 < 0.01), statistically significant decreases in the angle of repose and compressibility due to the effect of storage time (p = 0.000 < 0.01) and (p = 0.004 < 0.01), respectively. The physical properties analyses also revealed a statistically significant effect of the powder type on particle density, particle size, bulk density, and tapped density, angle of repose, compressibility, and color values: L-, a-, and b- (all p-values = 0.000 < 0.01). In other words, particle density, particle size, bulk density, and tapped density of the powders increased over the storage time, while angle of repose (AOR) and compressibility decreased over the storage time. The powder type had a significant effect on particle density, particle size, bulk density, tapped density, AOR, compressibility, and color values: L-, a-, and b; however, it did not have any significant effect on solubility and moisture content.
In addition, observations of the surface morphology of dairy powders were made using a scanning electron microscope. This evaluation demonstrated the differences in powder particle shape and surface morphology which are believed to be partially responsible for the significant differences observed in the physical properties, due to the effect of powder type.
It was shown that vacuum packaging does increase the efficiency of using the storage space by removing the interstitial air and increasing the density of the powder. As described above, the height of model (2) and the length of model (3) both were expectedly shorter compared to those of model (1). Storage space calculations for non fat dry milk were performed based on comparing the volume of the 3 models and showed 15 % saving in storage space per bag and per pallet, due to vacuum packaging. The effect of space saving on the number of bags per pallet was evaluated using CAPE PACK v2.09 software and showed an increase from 45 bags/ pallet in model (1) to 50 bags/ pallet in model (2) and 54 bags/ pallet in model (3).
Overall, this study demonstrates the impact of vacuum packaging on physical properties, solubility, and storage properties of dairy powders. The data suggest that the proposed vacuum packaging method may be beneficial to maintain the quality of the powders studied and it results in space savings per unit of dairy powder compared to conventional atmospheric packaging.
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Maximilian, Spiegelberg. "Exploring the potentials of a new perspective for a local approach: The Water-Energy-Food Nexus at the Dampalit Stream, the Philippines." Kyoto University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/225950.
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Qiu, Wanfei, and 裘婉飛. "Reproductive biology, space use and trophic status of Entomacrodus stellifer lighti (Pisces: Blenniidae) in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31938747.
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Pigozzi, Giorgio. "Behavioural ecology of the European badger (Meles meles) : diet, food availability and use of space in the Maremma Natural Park, central Italy." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1987. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=130725.
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The diet of the European badger in the Maremma Natural Park consisted of fruits and insects and these food categories constituted about 90% of the total amount of food eaten (by volume) in each year of the study. Faecal analyses showed that earthworms and the remaining food resources played a secondary role in the diet. Temporal and spatial variation occurred in the diet; insects were exploited mainly during winter and spring, and fruits mainly during summer and autumn. The bulk of the food comprised juniper berries in the pinewood, and Coleoptera larvae and adults, strawberry-tree fruits and blackberries in the grazing areas and maquis. Most food resources showed spatial variation, being regular (e.g. junipers, blackberries) in the pinewood, but contagious (e.g. blackberries, grasshoppers) or random (junipers, strawberry-trees) in the grazing areas and maquis. The occurrence of contagiously-distributed and long-lasting food resources in the diet was correlated with their availability in the grazing areas, whereas the occurrence in the diet of regularly-distributed and long-lasting foods was not correlated with their availability in the pinewood.To investigate the spacing pattern and use of space by badgers, seven individuals were radio-tracked. Badgers were solitary, with adult males living in a territory 4--5 times larger than that of adult females, which had a territory of 30--40 ha. The size of individual territories was fairly constant with latrines located mostly near the territory boundary. The movement pattern and use of space by badgers appeared to reflect the spatial and temporal availability of the most important food resources in their territory. This study confirms the relationship between feeding ecology and social organisation of badgers and suggests that in areas where they rely on markedly seasonal, less abundant food resources the spacing of badgers reverts to the basic mustelid pattern of solitary individuals.
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Kolavalli, Chhaya. "“WE’RE BEING LEFT TO BLIGHT”: GREEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND RACIALIZED SPACE IN KANSAS CITY." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/anthro_etds/31.
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In this dissertation, I explore ‘green’ urban development and urban agriculture projects from the perspective of residents of an African American majority neighborhood in Kansas City—who reside in an area referred to as a ‘blighted food desert’ by local policy makers. In Kansas City, extensive city government support exists for urban agricultural projects, which are touted not just as a solution to poverty associated issues such food insecurity and obesity, but also as a remedy for ‘blight,’ violence and crime, and vacant urban land. Specific narratives of Kansas City’s past are used to prop up and legitimate these future visions for, and development projects in, the city. This dissertation lays out an argument for how, in Kansas City, the dominant narrative surrounding urban sustainability, agriculture, and history came to be constructed and informed by white voices, and documents how these narratives, primarily constructed by upper-middle class white local ‘foodies’, are harnessed to support green development projects that marginalize and displace people of color and the poor. Specifically, I draw on 26 months of ethnographic fieldwork to explore how this narrative was constructed and elevated in local policy circles, document the lived consequences of this whitened narrative from the perspective of residents of “food deserts,” and describe historical and current minority-led agricultural projects—which aren’t included in dominant accountings of Kansas City’s development. I also explore agentive actions of racialized groups in opposition to this dominant whitened discourse, documenting how one neighborhood council in Kansas City strategically utilizes urban food project funding to acquire other, more urgently needed, community resources. I bring light to important acts of resistance by some black and brown urban farmers, who explicitly work to shape city space by reinscribing spatialized histories of displacement and racism in Kansas City. In this project I understand racialization and representation as active, not passive, processes, that have the power to determine whose voices are heard, and who has power to shape city space and its use. By untangling the racialized construction of history and space, and drawing on narratives shared by oft-silenced groups, this dissertation project contributes to scholarly work committed to disrupting hegemonic spatialized whiteness (McKittrick 2011).
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Yildiz, Alican. "Reclaiming Equity in a Contested and Uneven Space: Evidence-based Reformulations for Planning Practice in the Context of Urban Food Access in Cincinnati, OH." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491227621142843.
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Jägermeyr, Jonas [Verfasser], Wolfgang [Gutachter] Lucht, Zbigniew [Gutachter] Kundzewicz, and Gunnar [Gutachter] Nützmann. "Assessing opportunities to increase global food production within the safe operating space for human freshwater use / Jonas Jägermeyr ; Gutachter: Wolfgang Lucht, Zbigniew Kundzewicz, Gunnar Nützmann." Berlin : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1135657521/34.
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Jägermeyr, Jonas Verfasser], Wolfgang [Gutachter] [Lucht, Zbigniew [Gutachter] Kundzewicz, and Gunnar [Gutachter] Nützmann. "Assessing opportunities to increase global food production within the safe operating space for human freshwater use / Jonas Jägermeyr ; Gutachter: Wolfgang Lucht, Zbigniew Kundzewicz, Gunnar Nützmann." Berlin : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1135657521/34.
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SANTARSIERO, VITTORIA. "Matera e i territori del cibo. Modelli di innovazione per il food system e la valorizzazione dei paesaggi rurali attraverso le politiche del cibo e i processi creativi dell’agro-industria." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi della Basilicata, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11563/149102.
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The following work analyses the socio-economic and spatial dynamics of “Matera food city-region” and tests the role of innovation model, food policies and creative processes to enhance urban and rural foodscape.
The research looks for answers at some questions. The first is about dynamics and flows on Matera food city region considering involved spaces, actors and economies through a critical process that studies city and countryside. The second question moved to the necessity to define a model that is able to represent and interpret the analysed dynamics and flow, and to give back useful output. The third question works on results of previous phases and deepens analysis on Matera food city region to find enhanced possibilities and strategies for the territory. The critical reflection on the three answers makes necessary another demand. The fourth query deepens the role of multimedia platforms as tools to represent spaces and dynamics, and to provide ideas to innovate strategies for food territories. In the final part, this work gives an applicative example, proving the role of the platform Atlante del cibo Matera as a tool that creates links between involved actors and processes on Matera food city region and builds food governance.
This research is articulated in three complementary phases, recognizable in the overall structure. First, the work deepens critically the theory, by the study of the role of food in urban planning in the last two decades. In this section the research provides definitions of food system, food space and food policy and introduces international and national governance processes on food. This phase introduces research theme and is the theoretical basis for later stages. The second section is a disciplinary work based on analysis on field and the reconstruction of food system by the interpretation of organizational models detected in the territory. The analysis regards the phases of food system (production, processing, distribution and consumption) on Matera food city region. In the final section, the comment of results is the basis to rebuild geographies of Matera food territories. Finally, this phase explains the application model, shared between city, university and enterprise. The application shows the working ability of Atlante del Cibo Matera in the formulation of strategies that enhanced territories by food.
This work aims to shows the opportunity for Matera food city region to innovate itself by a vision that combines culture, rural landscapes, heritage and society through food. From this perspective innovation gives the tool for the implementation of interactive and heritage atlas that proposes participatory and synergic governance.L’obiettivo di questo lavoro di tesi è studiare l’articolazione delle dinamiche socio-economiche e spaziali nella Matera food city region, e testare la capacità degli strumenti di innovazione, delle politiche del cibo e dei processi creativi nella valorizzazione dei paesaggi rurali. Il lavoro di ricerca muove a partire dalla costruzione di risposte ad un serie di quesiti che scompongono e chiarificano l’intero percorso. Il primo riguarda la riflessione sulle dinamiche e sui flussi che interessano la food city region, considerando spazi, attori e economie implicate, attraverso un approccio che esamina criticamente la città e la campagna. Il secondo quesito muove dalla necessità di definire un modello di rappresentazione consono alla restituzione delle dinamiche osservate sul territorio e capace di restituire degli output a partire dall’interpretazione critica dei fenomeni. Il terzo riflette sulle caratteristiche della Matera food city region per individuarne potenzialità da cui articolare strategie per i territori del cibo. Il commento delle risposte alle prime questioni sarà il presupposto per la formulazione di un ulteriore quesito che riguarda il ruolo che possono avere gli strumenti innovativi in questo processo, di cui si fornirà un modello applicativo condiviso tra più attori nella parte finale dell’elaborato. Questo lavoro di ricerca si compone di tre operazioni differenti e fortemente complementari, ma tuttavia riconoscibili nella struttura della tesi. La prima riguarda lo studio critico della letteratura con una ricostruzione del ruolo assunto dal cibo nel corso dell’ultimo ventennio nella pianificazione delle città e dei territori. A seguire alcune definizioni sul sistema del cibo, sulle spazialità della ricerca e sulle politiche e regolamentazioni internazionali e nazionali. L’introduzione alla tematica della ricerca sarà la base disciplinare su cui saranno presentati i quesiti, gli obiettivi, i materiali e i metodi utilizzati. In chiusura della prima parte sarà introdotto il contesto della ricerca. La seconda parte della tesi è un lavoro più disciplinare e riferisce della ricerca sul campo attraverso la ricostruzione del sistema del cibo mediante l’analisi e l’interpretazione dei modelli organizzativi riconoscibili sul territorio in termini spaziali, ma anche quantitativi e qualitativi. Il riferimento in questa fase è stato lo studio delle performance delle varie fasi in cui è stato diviso a monte il sistema del cibo (produzione e trasformazione, trasporto e distribuzione, consumo). Una tematizzazione delle fasi dell’indagine che ha chiarito le relazioni tra spazialità, attori e dinamiche e le connessioni tra i vari processi nella fase di ricostruzione complessiva del fenomeno, svolta allo scopo di restituire una interpretazione critica del processo. Nella terza parte il commento dei risultati dell’analisi consentirà di ricostruire una lettura della geografia del territorio attraverso la lente del cibo. Saranno specificate le basi su cui è stato articolato il modello applicativo condiviso tra città, università e impresa che prova ad utilizzare uno strumento innovativo per la formulazione di strategie operative capaci di valorizzare i territori in chiave cibo. Matera e la sua food city region possono riarticolarsi in una visione che combina i processi culturali e agro-forestali dei paesaggi autentici lucani con la dimensione sistemica del cibo capace di relazionare tra loro patrimoni filiere e società. L’innovazione in tal senso può fornire gli strumenti per l’implementazione di atlanti patrimoniali interattivi e in grado di proporre governance partecipate e sinergiche.
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Бондар, Ольга Ігорівна, and Olha Bondar. "Використання фудкортів у громадських закладах." Thesis, Національний авіаційний університет, 2021. https://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/50928.
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Гнатюк Л.Р., Драга М.Л. Особливості розробки дизайну інтер'єрів закладів громадського харчування для студентських містечок. КНУТД, 2013
ArchDaily [Електронний ресурс]. Режим доступу: URL https://www.archdaily.com/Проаналізувавши та визначивши поняття фуд-корту було наведено приклади використання їх у громадських спорудах. Сформовано актуальність та доцільність використання класу харчової промисловості швидкого приготування. Сучасний фуд-корт набуває вищого рівню в наповненості інтер’єру, що автоматичні робить створення такого класу промислового харчування набагато престижним. Поєднання оптимальності та дизайнерського акцентного рішення робить сучасний фуд-корт унікальною платформою в оформлені промислового харчування.
After analyzing and defining the concept of food court, examples of their use in public buildings were given. The urgency and expediency of using the class of fast food industry is formed. The modern food court acquires a higher level in the fullness of the interior, which automatically makes the creation of this class of industrial food much more prestigious. The combination of optimality and design accent solution makes the modern food court a unique platform in the decorated industrial food.
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Chen, Li. "Chinese diaspora and Western Australian nature (Perth region): A study of material engagement with the natural world in diasporic culture." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2017. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2016.
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Based on an ethnographic study of the everyday practices of diasporic Chinese residents of Perth, this project focuses on the relationship between the ecologic environment and diasporic Chinese cultures in contemporary Western Australia.
With the acceleration of globalization, studies in diaspora have increasingly absorbed geographic ideas. Research on the relationship between ecology and humankind has thrown new light on discussions of diaspora. However, there are few in-depth studies addressing the construction of diasporic place and space with an engagement of the material world. Considering the relative absence of the natural world as a serious subject in contemporary diaspora studies, the starting point of this project is to explore the interactive relationships between place, space, and diasporic people via their everyday experiences. What is the meaning of nature to Chinese people living in Australia? How do they communicate with the natural world in their daily life and what is the dynamic relationship between the people and the environment?
In order to find the answers to these research questions, I adopt sensory ethnography, multispecies ethnography and sensory studies of food as the major approaches. As an insider ethnographer, I have examined diasporic multisensoriality through the ethnographic practices of interviews, observation, filed documentation (notes, photos, sound recordings), film documentation (video documentation of abalone harvesting in chapter 8) and self-reflective composition within a dynamic assemblage of human and nonhuman agentic beings. Sensory studies of food provide a way to understand the dynamic relations between the materials in diets and Chinese people on individual, ethnic and diasporic scales. Along with the theoretical themes of place, space, food, perception, memory and imagination, this research traverses diverse ethnographic disciplines as an academic practice.
In this research, I present several typical cases of everyday spatial practices, abalone recreational harvesting, and Chinese vegetable gardening. As an ethnographic study, the project has involved more than twenty specific participants. In the last two years, I have interviewed groups, individuals and families, and joined them in wine tasting, cultural celebrations, abalone harvesting and vegetable gardening. In addition, due to my previous background in documentary filmmaking, I have made an illustrative film on the topic of abalone harvesting.
Through the research on the cases, I found that there is an intimate, dialogical and reciprocal connection between the Chinese diaspora in Perth and the local physical environment. With the embodied engagement of the natural surroundings in their daily experiences, Chinese people living in Perth have gradually converted their perceptions of nature, which are also under the influence of traditional cultures. Acting as a space and an agent, the ecological environment has become familiar and domestic in the people’s diasporic experiences. Additionally, daily practices in the material surroundings have also transformed the people’s self-perceptions through their senses, reflections and attitudes toward the natural world. At the same time, the natural environment is impacted upon in myriad ways by the activities of diasporic Chinese.
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von, Heideken Hedda, and Nina Höglund. "E-commerce and its Effects on Commercial Real Estate and F&B : Space Conversions, the Optimal Meeting Place and Future Expectations on Development in Stockholm CBD." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-254732.
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People are becoming more digital today, and are spending the majority of their time behindscreens. Because of this, the importance to socialize have become more prominent. In thisdigital era, more businesses are establishing online. A structural reformation in the retailmarket is inevitable. One of the reasons for this is the competition which comes frominternational competitor. Consumers can click home goods directly from internationallow-cost production actors. With this change, it has become harder for physical retailbusiness to become profitable. Even though the online retail market is blooming, there is stilla need for physical spaces in Stockholm, and this is because of webrooming and Halo effects.In combination to this, retailers desire fewer and smaller spaces. Further, the effectse-commerce has on physical retail have altered the way real estate owners establish theirspaces. Several real estate owners convert retail stores into food and beverage (F&B). TheF&B sector has become more important and prominent today because of its importance ofcreating a meeting place in today’s society. Due to this, the F&B market is saturated causingcannibalization between actors.The aim of this study is to explore and interpret qualitative data, based on interviews withbranch experts from real estate owners and consultants, retailers, researchers and F&B actors.Considering, if the online retail market affects the F&B market in Stockholm CBD. What willbe the future for physical retail and F&B spaces, based on the change in consumer behaviour?What is the relation between the expanding online market and the conversion from retail toF&B? What will happen when the market is saturated and how will the future meeting placebe established? The thesis will also be based on a case study of Sergelstan, a developmentproject in Stockholm CBD, owned and established by Vasakronan.The conclusion of the research is that e-commerce has an indirect impact on the F&B sector,based on direct effect from retail. The physical retail sector creates vacancy due to a changedconsumer behaviour, which enables other sectors to grow. Due to the importance of ameeting place for society, real estate owners have almost doubled their F&B supply in theCBD of Stockholm.Dagens människor blir allt mer digitala och spenderar majoriteten av sin tid framför skärmar,så vikten att umgås blivit allt viktigare. Den digitala världen expanderar och allt fler företagöppnar online, vilket har skapat en oundviklig strukturell reform för detaljhandelsmarknaden.Konsumenterna kan klicka hem varor direkt från internationella lågprisaktörer som bidragittill att konkurrensen ökar på marknaden. Utvecklingen gör att det blir allt svårare för denfysiska detaljhandeln att bli lönsam. Trots att onlinehandeln är resultatrik, så finns detfortfarande ett behov av fysiska butiker i Stockholm bland annat på grund av webroomingoch Haloeffekt. En ökad e-handeln har bidragit till butikernas behov av fysiska ytor minskateller försvunnit. Effekterna av e-handeln på fysiska butiker har därmed skapat en förändringför fastighetsägare, däribland hur man väljer att etablera hyresgäster i sina kommersiellafastigheter. Flera fastighetsägare väljer att konvertera de fysiska butikerna till andra mergynnsamma sektorer, exempelvis mat och dryck (F&B). F&B sektorn har blivit viktigare ochmer betydelsefull idag, eftersom det skapar en mötesplats. En överetablering av F&B harmättat marknaden och istället skapat en kannibalisering mellan aktörerna.Syftet är att undersöka och tolka kvalitativa data, baserat på semistrukturerade intervjuer frånfastighetsägare och konsulter, forskare, detaljhandlare och F&B-aktörer. Frågan somundersöks i det här examensarbetet är om e-handeln påverkar F&B marknaden i Stockholmsstadskärna. Vad kommer att hända med de fysiska ytorna för butiker och F&B i framtiden,som grundar sig i ett förändrat konsumetbeteende? Vad är förhållandet mellan expansionenav e-handel och konvertering från fysisk butik till F&B? Vad kommer att hända närmarknaden är mättad och hur kommer den framtida mötesplatsen att utformas?Undersökningen baseras på en fallstudie av Sergelstan, ett kommersiellt fastighetsprojekt,som ägs och utvecklas av Vasakronan.Slutsatsen är att e-handeln har en indirekt påverkan på F&B. Den fysiska detaljhandelnskapar vakanta ytor på grund av ett förändrat konsumentbeteende, vilket möjliggör för andrasektor att växa. På grund av vikten av en mötesplats i dagens samhälle har en fördubbling avF&B skett i CBD Stockholm.
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Ayyad, Raja. "Understanding Perceptions of Community Gardens in the Dallas Area." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1062885/.
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This exploratory research focuses on identifying the roles and perspectives of community gardens in the Dallas area. Results from semi-structured interviews reveal the social and political makeup of the neighborhoods where the garden projects in this study are located. While these findings highlight the benefits of gardening in the city, they can also be contested spaces. In advocating for the proliferation of garden projects in the city, community organizations would benefit from understanding the nuances of garden initiatives and the way in which they are perceived by members of the garden, nearby residents, and policy makers.
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Fiamor, Anne-Emmanuelle. "Changement dans la construction sociale de la production alimentaire localisée : analyse à partir du cas drômois." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOU20078/document.
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Les productions alimentaires régionales, dites « de terroir » ou « localisées » se sont remarquablement développées à partir du tournant des années 80, selon des modes de valorisation variés allant du petit producteur à l’industriel labélisé. A l’aune d’une enquête de terrain portant sur la diversité des modalités de valorisation des nombreuses productions du département de la Drôme, nous nous sommes rendus compte que la diversité des modes de valorisation sur ce territoire n’était pas seulement de nature organisationnelle et stratégique. En effet, le terrain nous a conduit à supposer l’existence d’une diversité de significations sociales associées à la production localisée. Cette diversité s’incarnait dans le fait que la référence à la tradition n’était plus le seul vecteur de légitimation pour une production localisée. C’est ainsi que nous avons cherché à analyser la diversité organisationnelle mais aussi symbolique des différents processus de valorisation. Au vu de la fonction sociale d’aliment identifié dans un contexte industrialisé qu’ont les productions localisées, nous avons alors compris, qu’un nouveau sens social associé à la production locale serait signifiant d’un rapport nouveau au besoin d’identification de l’alimentation dans un contexte industrialisé et mondialisé. Pour analyser cette diversité organisationnelle et symbolique, nous avons pensé les processus de valorisation comme des systèmes de domination, au sens où l’entend Max Weber. Ainsi, le système et la stratégie de valorisation ont été mis au jour, de même que la forme de la légitimation sur laquelle repose la signification sociale de la production. Dans ce cadre, nous avons analysé six variations de localisation par référence à la tradition ainsi qu’une manière de localiser émergente. Dans cette dernière, l’ancrage local de la production s’effectue par le fait d’avoir été produite, transformée et vendue localement par le petit fermier local, souvent néo-rural, selon des savoirs et des savoir-faire de production, de transformation et d’organisation de vente construits à travers les réseaux de partage et de vente existants entre ces exploitants. Ces réseaux, formels et informels, sont créés soit par le biais du monde associatif agricole soit en toute autonomie. Dans ce cadre, chaque exploitant a pour objectif de produire et de vendre mais aussi de « faire groupe » tout en gardant son indépendance face à ses pairs et face aux acteurs institutionnels. Ainsi, ces producteurs, dans leur rapport à la production et au groupe, permettent l’émergence de savoirs et de savoir-faire de production localisée ancrés dans un « ici et maintenant » culturel associé à leur figure de petits fermiers locauxThis research emanates from a field survey we conducted in the Department of Drôme, France, which deals with the analysis of a variety of valorization methods of local food productions we sought to explain. Local food productions are a traditional production rooted in time and space, regardless the organizational and strategic variety of valorization methods. In the Drôme territory, we found a variety of productions and a variety of organizational and strategic valorization methods. But those patterns are not sufficient to explain what we observed in the field. We observed also another form of reference to location of these productions than only the reference to tradition. From there, in addition to the analysis of the organizational diversity of valorization methods of local food production in Drôme, the characterization of a new form of reference to location of production we spotted is the main issue of this research. To analyze the organizational and symbolic diversity, we conceptualize the valorization methods as systems of domination (in the sense of Max Weber). Indeed, the system and the strategy of valorization are pointed out as well as the shape of the legitimacy on which the social significance of the production is expressed. In this framework, we analyzed six variations of localization types by reference to tradition and one emergent way of localizing productions. This last is assessed through the fact that productions are produced, processed and sold locally by small local farmers, often neo-rural, according to production knowledge and expertise, processing and selling organization built through sharing and selling networks constructed among these farmers. These networks, either formal or informal, are either created through agricultural associations, or either were built autonomously. In this framework, each farmer aims to produce and sell, but also to “build a community” while keeping its independence from peers and institutional actors. Therefore, these farmers, through their relationships to the production and to their community, induce the emergence of knowledge and know-how rooted in “here and now” cultural bedrock crystallized in the representation of the small local farmer
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Santos, Rogério Gomes dos. "SEGREGAÇÃO SOCIOESPACIAL, ECONOMIA URBANA E FOME: UMA ANALISE A PARTIR DA VILA OURO VERDE EM PONTA GROSSA-PR." UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE PONTA GROSSA, 2015. http://tede2.uepg.br/jspui/handle/prefix/572.
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The objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between socio-spatial segregation process, the consumption of food in the lower circuit of the urban economy, and food security. The proposed debate shows that the effects of a locational order in socio-spatially segregated environments bring the urban poor close to the food consumption at typical premises of the lower circuit. Such a fact is contributing to the worsening of quantitative and qualitative hunger. The spatial area of this analysis is the community of Vila Ouro Verde, located in Maria Otilia, in Ponta Grossa-PR. Result of an occupation during the year 2001, the community is the picture of spatial segregation and social exclusion. This research, in addition to showing a socioeconomic profile of families connected to the community, seeks to understand the factors that would help set up their habits of acquiring and consumption of food. We found that the higher prices, coupled with the low quality and little variety of existing products at small markets in the locality, collaborate for the formation of a food insecurity frame. Although the research presents a more exploratory nature, the results are relevant and provide a contribution to the study field of hunger
O objetivo do presente trabalho é analisar a relação entre o processo de segregação socioespacial, o consumo de alimentos no circuito inferior da economia urbana e a segurança alimentar. O debate proposto demonstra que os efeitos da trama localizacional em ambientes socioespacialmente segregados aproximam os citadinos pobres do consumo de alimentos em estabelecimentos característicos do circuito inferior, contribuindo assim para o agravamento da fome quantitativa e qualitativa. O recorte espacial da análise é a comunidade da Vila Ouro Verde, situada no bairro Maria Otília, em Ponta Grossa-PR. Fruto de uma ocupação ocorrida no ano de 2001, a comunidade é o retrato da segregação espacial e da exclusão social. Esta pesquisa, além de traçar um perfil socioeconômico das famílias ligadas à comunidade, procura compreender os fatores que ajudariam a configurar seus hábitos de aquisição e consumo de alimentos. Constatou–se que os preços mais elevados, aliados à baixa qualidade e pouca variedade de produtos presentes nos pequenos mercados da localidade colaborariam para a formação de um quadro de insegurança alimentar. Ainda que a pesquisa apresente um caráter mais exploratório, os resultados obtidos são pertinentes e constituem uma contribuição ao campo de estudos da fome.
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Bini, Danton Leonel de Camargo. "Da formação socioespacial à diferenciação dos circuitos espaciais agropecuários na região de Araçatuba (SP)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-16072015-121345/.
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A presente pesquisa analisa a formação socioespacial agropecuária da região de Araçatuba. Norteada pela periodização das ocupações hegemônicas no espaço agrícola regional, ponderou-se a trama apresentada a partir da análise das anexações dos sistemas de objetos superiores que alicerçaram no tempo diferentes divisões territoriais da produção e do trabalho. Café, algodão, pecuária bovina de corte e cana-de-açúcar configuraram ciclos de ocupações que se caracterizaram enquanto circuitos espaciais dominantes da agropecuária na região de Araçatuba. Usuárias da maioria das áreas agricultáveis do oeste paulista, a pecuária bovina de corte e a lavoura canavieira conformaram nas últimas décadas uma apropriação fundiária definida como sistema cana-boi. Em coexistência com essas ocupações hegemônicas, outras culturas alimentares atuaram produtivamente para o abastecimento prioritário do mercado interno local, regional e nacional. Dispostas em níveis diferenciados de tecnificação, capitalização e organizacional, essas atividades agropecuárias se fazem presentes na horizontalidade do território usado em circuitos espaciais de hegemonia complementar e subalternos. Característica do abastecimento de alimentos in natura nas regiões é a maioria do consumido ter origem distante. Resultado da divisão territorial da produção das diferentes culturas alimentares no espaço geográfico e do acúmulo de conhecimento técnico-organizacional dos produtores nas regiões agropecuárias, cada alimento possui predominantemente circuitos originários concentrados em pontos e manchas do território dados às especializações produtivas no mercado capitalista. Contudo, na manutenção de técnicas rudimentares sobrevive e se reproduz (nos interstícios das novas modernidades) racionalidades autóctones que persistem no oferecimento de produtos tradicionais da cultura regional. Para o período atual, apresenta-se nessa pesquisa a manifestação dessa multiterritorialidade vigente no espaço geográfico da região de Araçatuba.This research analyzes the formation of the socio-spatial agriculture of Araçatuba / Sao Paolo / Brazil. Guided by the timeline of the hegemonic occupations in the regional agriculture space, weighed up the plot presented from the analysis annexations of upper objects that underpinned systems in different time territorial divisions of production and labor. Coffee, cotton, beef cattle and sugarcane configured cycles of occupations that were characterized as dominant spatial circuits of agriculture in Araçatuba. Users of most agricultural areas of Western Sao Paolo State, the beef cattle and sugarcane farming conformed in recent decades a land ownership defined as cane-ox system. In coexistence with these hegemonic occupations, other food crops worked productively for the priority supply of local, regional and national domestic market. Arranged in different levels of technological improvement, and organizational capitalizing, these agricultural activities are present in the horizontality of the used territory in spatial circuits complementary hegemony and subaltern. Characteristic of food supply in nature in the regions is the most distant source be consumed. Result of the territorial division of production of different food cultures in geographic space and the accumulation of technical-organizational knowledge producers in agricultural regions, each food has predominantly concentrated circuits originating in spots and stains the territory given to productive specializations in the capitalist market. However, in maintenance survives and reproduces rudimentary techniques (in the interstices of new modernities) autochthonous rationalities that persist in offering traditional products of regional culture. For the current period, is presented in this research the current manifestation of this multiterritoriality geographic space of Araçatuba.
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Mota, Lucimar Maria. "Espaço social alimentar: o programa Mesa Brasil Sesc Goiás." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2014. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/7674.
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The observation of a significant number of Brazilians presented in poverty and misery, deprived of the opportunity to exercise the fundamental right to food, essential to life with dignity has, over the years, required by government agencies and civil society, the effectiveness of social programs of the emergency order to fight against poverty and hunger led to the poorest segments of the population. While important, these programs on the context in which they were created, failed to reverse the situation of poverty and, therefore, the disturbing problem of hunger in the country. In 2003, as part of government strategies to address poverty, the federal government implemented the Zero Hunger Program, a new perspective on hunger and poverty eradication, articulated a policy proposal on food security and nutrition. In this context and year, there is also the Mesa Brasil SESC Program (MBS), a food and nutritional program against hunger and food waste. This Mesa Brasil SESC Goiás program is the subject of this study, which was accomplished in Goiânia – headquarters of physical facilities of MBS, based on the research from 2004 to 2013. It was attempted to, as main objective, identify, from the concept of food and nutrition security that is based on the principles of sufficiency, quality and adequacy, the measures adopted by the MSB against hunger and against food waste, and are implemented in a transverse perspective, educational and cultural activities in the social field space / social space food. Linking theory and methodology, we have used sociocultural theory of Bourdieu promoting understanding, through his concepts of field and habitus of the food, the set of values, ideas, beliefs and symbols that shape practices and educational initiatives developed by MBS. In an interaction of the concept of social field food, Bourdieu was used again, the theory to understand the representation was from Poulain to understand the representation of the practices and hierarchical and reciprocal social relationships that are built around food. This concept of social space and social dimensions of food in this space (of edatable, the food system, the space eater, consumer habits and the temporality of food), allowed to identify all these articulated and configured in the social space of MBS dimensions. The study of the case as a method of empirical research has favored the simultaneous use of different techniques and research tools allowed to cross and compare information, confirm and analyze together with the individual, and the individual with together, showing multiple situations, social and cultural relations that are structured within the space of MBS. The results of this work indicate significant advances of Mesa Brazil Sesc Goiás Programme according to their objectives and also challenges. Challenges, most of the time, with structural solutions.
A constatação da existência de um contingente expressivo de brasileiros submetidos a situação de pobreza e miséria, destituídos da possibilidade de exercer o direito humano básico à alimentação, fundamental à existência com dignidade, tem-se, ao longo dos anos, requerido por parte dos órgãos governamentais e sociedade civil organizada, a efetivação de programas sociais de ordem emergencial no combate à pobreza e à fome, direcionados aos segmentos mais pobres da população brasileira. Ainda que importantes, esses programas, no contexto em que foram criados, não conseguiram reverter o quadro da pobreza e, consequentemente, o problema inquietante da fome no país. Em 2003, no âmbito das estratégias governamentais de enfrentamento à pobreza, o governo federal implantou o Programa Fome Zero, uma nova perspectiva de combate à fome e de erradicação da pobreza, articulada a uma proposta política de segurança alimentar e nutricional. Nesse contexto e ano, surge também o Programa Mesa Brasil SESC (MBS), um programa de segurança alimentar e nutricional contra a fome e o desperdício de alimentos. O Programa Mesa Brasil SESC Goiás é o objeto deste trabalho, realizado em Goiânia – sede das instalações físicas do MBS, tendo como marco de investigação o período de 2004 a 2013. Buscou-se, como objetivo principal, identificar, a partir da concepção de segurança alimentar e nutricional, que tem como base os princípios da suficiência, da qualidade e da adequação, as medidas adotadas pelo MBS contra a fome e o desperdício de alimentos e, ainda como são concretizadas, numa perspectiva transversal, as ações educativas e culturais neste espaço social alimentar. Articulando teoria e metodologia, recorreu-se à teoria sociocultural de Bourdieu buscando compreender, por meio dos seus conceitos de campo e habitus alimentar, o conjunto de valores, ideias, crenças e símbolos que estruturam as ações e práticas educativas desenvolvidas pelo MBS. Numa interação do conceito de campo social alimentar de Bourdieu, recorreu-se ainda, à teoria de Poulain para entender a representação das práticas e relações sociais hierárquicas e de reciprocidade que se constroem em torno da alimentação. Seu conceito de espaço social alimentar e as dimensões sociais da alimentação nesse espaço (do comestível, do sistema alimentar, espaço do comedor, dos hábitos de consumo e da temporalidade alimentar), permitiram identificar essas várias dimensões articuladas e configuradas no espaço social alimentar do MBS. O estudo de caso, como método de investigação empírica, favoreceu a utilização simultânea de diferentes técnicas e instrumentos de pesquisa, as quais permitiram cruzar e comparar informações, comparar e analisar o todo com o particular, e vice-versa, mostrando múltiplas situações e as relações sociais e culturais que se estruturam no interior do espaço social do MBS. Os resultados deste trabalho apontam significativos avanços do Programa Mesa Brasil SESC Goiás em relação a seus objetivos e também seus desafios. Desafios estes, em sua maioria, na dependência de soluções estruturais.
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Schmidt, Jason M. "Adaptive Foraging in a Generalist Predator: Implications of Habitat Structure, Density, Prey Availability and Nutrients." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1312815757.
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Parham, Susan. "Exploring London's food quarters : urban design and social process in three food-centred spaces." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2009. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3008/.
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This thesis considers three food-centred spaces in London. Drawing on theoretical perspectives from sociology, geography, urban design and morphology, it explores the spatial and social transformation of the Borough Market, Broadway Market and Exmouth Market areas through the revival of their food markets. Using a mix of methods including interviews, observations, mapping and urban design analysis, the case study-based research situates these neighbourhoods along a continuum of food quarter development. The work reflects on the quarters not only as fast gentrifying locations in which renewal is grounded in new forms of conspicuous food consumption, but as places that also support changing - and potentially less alienating - relationships between sustainable urban form, urban design context and convivial social processes focused on food. It is argued that the aspatiality of much sociological research into foodscapes tends to underemphasise the connections between the physical and the social, which in the three food quarters are nuanced and complicated. On the one hand, food quarters are experienced by some, after Bourdieu (1984), as 'mini habituses' (Bridge, 2006) in which identity construction is linked to distinction based on food, and modelled on particular forms of food consumption. On the other hand, despite sometimes 'idealised narratives' (Butler, 2007) of community' formation, food quarters may also make a contribution to developing more sustainable cities, by supporting and nurturing convivial socio-spatial food practices that sometimes transcend commodification. In particular, the thesis explores how compact city design, founded on a strong sense of place, underpins local economic vitality, and informs the richness of experiences of food and eating. The thesis concludes that despite some gentrifying effects, the food quarters are in certain respects defying dominant spatialised trends evident in London, to develop in a more convivial, gastronomically rich and sustainable way.