Korsching, Peter F. (author), Kremer, Kathy S. (author), Carolan, Michael (author), Gasteyer, Stephen (author), Tirmizi, S. Noor (author), Peter, Gregory (author), and Tong, Pingsheng (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23976
"The issue of place, like conservation and pollution in the 1960s, is not a new idea at all. But it is an idea poised to explode onto the public consciousness in ways that help transform debates about a whole range of issues. Anyone joining this burgeoning movement to improve public places discovers the key issue is not urban planning or transportation priorities but love. Places we love become places that we hang out."
7 pages, Rice production encountered several challenges, especially among rural farmers in Northern Ghana. The current debate encompasses the belief of cultural norms and religious values as the right theory for the sustainability of agriculture. The belief in abstracts is prioritised to the adoption of improved rice. This paper examined the value attached to traditional rice varieties as a result of societal beliefs, and theoretically underpinned by the Dual-system hypothesis. The finding from three ethnic and religious groups through a survey indicates heterogeneity in the results but also demonstrates the factual importance of culture and religion. This paper, therefore, proposes a new way of categorising farming; as a business and a belief and that policy stream aim at small scale, rural farmers with belief peculiarities needs to adopt cultural and religious strategies to promote adoption.
"Biotechnology is believed to be useful to humanity, yet Spaniards are not in favor of its application to food production." Authors argue that this situation is caused primarily by the lack of debate in Spanish society concerning the social, legal, ethical and economic implications of biotechnology and genetic engineering.
