Sentence examples for Agrarian practices from inspiring English sources

And those drawn to the recent renewal of interest in artisanal and agrarian practices as a sustainable alternative to consumerism will find instruction and inspiration in "Communitas," a 1947 blueprint for utopia that Mr. Goodman wrote with his brother, Percival.

However, the Mediterranean Basin agroecosystems have suffered the effects of two drivers of change, rural abandonment and intensification of agrarian practices, which threaten multifunctional landscapes and erode the capacity to deliver ecosystem services.

If so, why and how? –Dr. Neumann comments on the "implicit assumption among archaeologists that 'agriculture is superior to the foraging of wild plants and that with the invention of agrarian practices, economies based on wild resources are no longer competitive'" – do you agree?

In an article to be published in September in the book "African Archaeology: A Critical Introduction," Dr. Neumann says there is an implicit assumption among archaeologists that "agriculture is superior to the foraging of wild plants and that with the invention of agrarian practices, economies based on wild resources are no longer competitive".

As a doctoral candidate in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (ESPM), she spent two years in the highlands of Vietnam learning how land-use laws and economic policies affected indigenous local farmers from the Mien minority ethnic group and their ability to sustain agrarian practices that were vital to their culture and food security.

The research paper "Land cover by direct and indirect urban-industrial uses in the region of Madrid (1956-1980-2005)" reports that in Madrid, the loss of agrarian land as a result of the abandonment of agrarian practices is twice as large as that resulting from urban developments (Naredo and García Zaldívar, [2008]).

I've had nothing but success with this ancient agrarian practice, and I traffic in these dark arts with a farm I know and trust.

The society and landscape of the uplands studies have essentially been defined by low input agrarian land use practices, which are today increasingly in question.

Results show changing agrarian and animal husbandry practices for a period of more than 8000 years, ranging between self-sustaining economies to specialised husbandry practices and an intensive agricultural exploitation of the landscape, in relation to human settlement activities.

Ethnological studies show clearly that cannibalism appears almost exclusively in the practices of agrarian peoples, that is, in a later cultural stage, and evidently is essentially bound up with religious or magical conceptions in which cultivated plants play a large role.

This book argues that the anthropocentric institution of private property needs to be reconceived; drawing on international case law, indigenous views of property and the land use practices of agrarian communities, Peter Burdon considers how private property can be reformulated in a way that fosters duties towards nature.