This dissertation examines the influence of voluntary youth clubs administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) -- known popularly as 4-H clubs -- …
This dissertation is an inductive study of how a past extractive monoculture region is remaking itself and opening up possibilities. Environmental sociology and environmentalism are …
Tropical forests are important for provision of ecosystem services, meanwhile deforestation rates are high in the tropics to create pasture and agricultural lands. Regrowth of …
The history of the charitable food space is one fraught with hardship, class conflict, and socio-economic struggle. Despite these problems, urban agriculture has become a …
Abstract of FRONTIER ONTOLOGIES: LAND, AGRARIAN GOVERNANCE, AND INFRASTRUCTURE IN BRITISH INDIA’S NORTHWEST AND NORTHEAST, 1840-1930, by ABHILASH MEDHI, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2020 This …
This dissertation seeks to understand household behavior in rural Africa. Chapter 1 derives a novel prediction of consumption responses to new information by building on …
The dissertation provides a social history of collective farm privatization, focusing specifically on three former collective farms in the Nizhnii Novgorod, Riazan� and Krasnodar regions …
In the campaign to bring electricity to the American farm, the New Deal’s Rural Electrification Administration (REA) enlisted architecture to ideological and propagandistic ends. Though …
The agricultural development community shares a commitment to market-led agricultural growth, achieved through connecting the poor to markets and expanding the role of private sector …
Agricultural terraces are prominent features of many regions worldwide, where they provide various functions relating to crop production and soil and water conservation. In some …
This dissertation develops quantitative spatial equilibrium models for the agricultural sector to study returns to agricultural research, trade with China and deforestation in Brazil. The …
