The importance of agri-food systems for global sustainability calls researching and advancing socio-technical transitions towards environmentally friendly models farming. These hinge on many prerequisites, one which is providing access to land farmers new entrants who experiment with sustainable farming models. However, in be viable, should complemented securing “intangible” resources such as s...

Using wastewater accumulating around rural waterpoints to irrigate community gardens, borehole-garden permaculture (BGP) presents a method of sustainable water management. BGP also public health benefits through the removal stagnant boreholes, key Malaria breeding grounds, and providing year-round food supplement diets. By analysing dataset over 100,000 cases, this research examines awareness a...

The widespread acceptance of Six Sigma as a systematic program of process control, planning, and improvement has led to the creation of many databases describing the performance of individual projects, timing, and the techniques used. These databases provide resources for the analysis of quality management practices. Specifically, there are three levels at which analysis can occur in this conte...

New ideas often come from external influences, different paths that are essential for developing an economic model that’s not based on repeating the past but three pillars: cultural traditions, natural environment, and new ways of thinking. This happens at MonViso Institute, in Western Italian Alps, where a group researchers, designers entrepreneurs has been involved place-based research into t...

It is by now a common experience that Y2K-projects tend to be complex, time-consuming and risky as well as that they can cause considerable costs. Because they belong to the class of corrective maintenance projects, not too many bene ts can be expected from such projects at a rst sight. But if they are managed in a proper way, the foundation for several important future bene ts can be layed. In...

In Vienna, consultants, organic farmers and green-minded consumers have developed a new concept of urban organic farming, called Selbsternte (`self-harvest'). Organic farmers prepare a plot of arable land (the Selbsternte plot) and sow or plant rows composed of 18±23 plant species. In mid-May the plots are divided into subplots that contain 2±6 m of every sown species and are rented to so-calle...

Global protests calling for accelerated climate change action, social justice, and racial equity have been shifting long-standing conversations policies from local to national scales. Yet many activists can become psychologically drained by the frustration loss of hope in fighting against structural oppression. This study was comprised semi-structured qualitative interviews spanning across Unit...

Agriculture has always played a determining role in Hungarian landscapes. Forested areas were also under agricultural use; however, their use changed, starting at least from the Middle Ages when need for new arable fields resulted tremendous decrease forested areas. The protection of forests started many reasons, saving them fuelwood and construction materials. This is reason why there periods ...