scholarly journals Impacts of rice intensification on rural households in the Mekong Delta: emerging relationships between agricultural production, wild food supply and food consumption

Food Security ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 1615-1629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Van Kien Nguyen ◽  
David Dumaresq ◽  
Jamie Pittock
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Rural Households ◽  
Mekong Delta ◽  
Wild Food ◽  
Rice Intensification

Mechanisms of Green Development of Urban Agricultural Production in a Large Industrial City

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 823-829
Author(s):  
E. V. Malysh
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Agricultural Technologies ◽  
Short Supply ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Green Development

A city’s potential for food self-sufficiency is expected to increase through the distribution of innovative, high-tech, green agricultural practices of producing food in an urban environment, which can improve the city’s food security due to increased food accessibility in terms of quantity and quality. Aim. Based on the systematization of theoretical approaches and analysis of institutional aspects, the study aims to propose ways to strengthen the city’s food security by improving food supply in urban areas, increasing the socio-economic and environmental sustainability of urban food systems, and changing the diet of urban residents.Tasks. The authors propose methods for the development of urban agricultural production in a large industrial city based on the principles of green economy and outline the range of strategic urban activities aimed at implementing green agricultural production technologies associated with the formation and development of the culture of modern urban agricultural production.Methods. This study uses general scientific methods of cognition to examine the specificity of objectives of strengthening a city’s food security by improving the quality of food supply to the population. Methods of comparison, systems analysis, systematization of information, and the monographic method are also applied.Results. A strategic project for the development of urban agricultural systems through the implementation and green development of advanced urban agricultural technologies is described. Green development mechanisms will create conditions for the city’s self-sufficiency in terms of organic and safe products, functioning of short supply chains, and green urban agriculture.Conclusions. Managing the growth of urban agriculture will promote the use of highly effective, easily controlled, resource-efficient, eco-friendly, weather- and season-independent, multi-format urban agricultural technologies. The study describes actions aimed at creating conditions for stabilizing a city’s high-quality food self-sufficiency with allowance for the growing differentiation of citizen needs.

Biodiesel production and use for agricultural production in the mekong delta: current status and potential

2016 ◽  
Vol Renewable Energy ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Tin, N.H. ◽  
Hue, B.T.B. ◽  
Thuy, T.L.K. ◽  
Phuong, T.L. ◽  
Duyen, C.M. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Mekong Delta ◽  
Biodiesel Production ◽  
Current Status

A multiplicity of prek(s): Enacting a socionatural mosaic in the Cambodian upper Mekong delta

2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862110268
Author(s):  
Jean-Philippe Venot ◽  
Casper B Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Mekong Delta ◽  
Mosaic Landscape ◽  
Water Research ◽  
Rice Intensification ◽  
Multiple Uses ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
Irrigation Infrastructure ◽  
Passive Object

In Khmer, the word prek designates a connection between things. In Kandal province in Cambodia, preks crisscross the landscape, connecting rivers with floodplains, supporting rich ecologies and a variety of livelihoods. Drawing on science and technology studies (STS) and critical water research, this paper explores prek(s) as a multiplicity. Rather than taking the prek as a passive object around which various practices occur, we examine how prek(s) are enacted as ontologically different: as irrigation infrastructure, as pathway to rice intensification, as device for Cambodian state-making, and as climate-friendly agricultural development. After analyzing interference patterns between enactments and their scale-making effects in- and outside the Mekong floodplains, we make explicit our own ontological politics. Focused on sustaining multiple uses and ecosystems, “our” prek is a socionatural mosaic landscape where many human and more-than-human actors and practices can coexist. This ontological politics, we suggest, has implications for planetary environmental knowledges and delta management far beyond Kandal’s landscape.

High potentials of water and land efficiency in agricultural production and trade for rich food supply by Central Asia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yilin Liu ◽  
La Zhuo ◽  
Olli Varis ◽  
Kai Fang ◽  
Gang Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Rich Food ◽  
High Potentials

scholarly journals SUSTAINABLE FOOD CONSUMPTION IN RURAL AND URBAN AREAS IN POLAND

2019 ◽  
Vol XXI (4) ◽  
pp. 542-550
Author(s):  
Monika Utzig
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Vegetable Consumption ◽  
Rural Households ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Consumption Pattern ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Food Consumption Pattern

The aim of the paper is to identify changes in the food consumption of urban and rural households in Poland when it comes to sustainable consumption as well as evaluate if such changes are becoming more or less sustainable. Sustainable consumption is an element of sustainable development, which responds to the basic needs of people while not jeopardizing the needs of future generations. More sustainable food consumption is perceived to be a reduction of overconsumption, a decrease in the consumption of highly processed food and a shift in diet based less on animals and more on plants. The paper is mainly based on data from the Polish Central Statistical Office concerning meat, fruit and vegetable consumption. Some data about food waste were also used. The research shows that the food consumption pattern in rural households is less sustainable than in urban ones. Households living in rural areas consume more meat and less fruit and vegetables than urban ones. There is some evidence that the food consumption pattern in Poland is shifting towards a less sustainable one.

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