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Gilles, Jere L.; Thomas, Justin L.; Valdivia, Corinne; Yucra, Edwin S. – Rural Sociology, 2013
Many sustainable agricultural practices are based on local and traditional farming knowledge. This article examines the conservation and loss of three traditional practices in the Bolivian Altiplano that agronomic research has shown increase the resiliency of small farmers in the face of climate-related risks. These practices are the use of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Foreign Countries, Biodiversity, Indigenous Knowledge
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VanWey, Leah; Vithayathil, Trina – Rural Sociology, 2013
This article analyzes off-farm work among subsistence-level farmers in the Santarem region of the Brazilian Amazon. We build on the literature on rural livelihoods in the Global South by exploring how the opportunity to work off the farm is embedded in social relationships. We additionally differentiate our analysis by type of off-farm work, and…
Descriptors: Job Security, Probability, Human Capital, Social Capital
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Preibisch, Kerry L. – Rural Sociology, 2007
Temporary visa workers are increasingly taking on a heightened profile in Canada, entering the workforce each year in greater numbers than immigrant workers with labor mobility rights (Sharma 2006). This paper examines the incorporation of foreign workers in Canadian horticulture under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). I argue that…
Descriptors: Industry, Research Methodology, Foreign Workers, Labor