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Understanding Fair Trade

Description: Lesson plan containing a collection of activities and resources regarding the study of fair trade that meet state education standards and national sustainability standards for the 6th grade level.
Date: June 26, 2014
Creator: Ibarra, Vanessa
Partner: UNT Office of Sustainability
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Global Environmental Change and Food Systems: Science Plan and Implementation Strategy

Description: Recent years have seen a greatly increased understanding of how global environmental change will affect crop and animal productivity and these results pave the way for broader analyses of global environmental change impacts on food production. However, there is a need to think beyond productivity and production - food security is the ultimate concern, as it is of greater relevance to societal well-being and hence policy-making. To address this broader concept of food security, research and poli… more
Date: 2005
Creator: Global Environmental Change and Food Systems
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Growing local foods movements: Farmers' markets as nodes for products and community in Dallas/Fort Worth

Description: Undergraduate thesis building on Feagan's (2007) analysis of ideas of community and place, and Kloppenburg et al.'s (1996) concept of foodsheds, and a modified form of drive-time polygons, termed 'marketsheds' that demarcate the consumer-draw area for farmers' markets. Specifically, the research analyzes the spatial distribution of local food communities in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (DFW) in Texas and links the foodshed concept to elements of community and sense of place. Two questions gu… more
Date: 2013~/2014~
Creator: Aucoin, Martin
Partner: UNT Honors College
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