Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "agriculture"
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ADVANCING THE DISCOVERY OF CAUSAL ALLELES CONTROLLING AGRICULTURAL PHENOTYPES IN APPLE (MALUS DOMESTICA)
(2024-08-22)The apple is an economically and culturally important fruit crop grown in temperate regions around the world. The apple stands to benefit greatly from modern genomics, including the application of genomics informed breeding ... -
Agricultural Transparency: Reconnecting Urban Centres With Food Production
(2012-04-03)In North America, industrial agriculture has led to cheap abundant food while separating direct links between the city and countryside. This thesis attempts to use architecture to reconnect people in Manhattan, New York ... -
CONCEPTUALIZING AND QUANTIFYING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
(2014-04-01)Increasing the amount of food produced while simultaneously reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture is one of the most pressing challenges facing humanity. A promising approach through which this could be achieved ... -
EVALUATION OF AGRICULTURAL PLASTICS WASTE MANAGEMENT IN NOVA SCOTIA: IDENTIFYING BARRIERS TO AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVING DISPOSAL PRACTICES
(2016-07-20)Progressive waste management directives, such as those in Europe, aim to achieve zero waste to landfill in the coming decades; plastics commonly account for an appreciable fraction of waste sent to landfill. Agricultural ... -
Farmer perceptions of wetland ecosystem goods and services
(2014-12-11)Wetlands provide services to humans through ecological functions including water filtration, flood prevention, freshwater provision etc. Farmers risk losing these essential services as a result of wetland drainage. Wetlands ... -
Growing the Network: Cultivating Alternative Food Systems in the Prairie City
(2019-08-06)The province of Alberta faces considerable challenges to food security due to urban expansion into agricultural land, loss of landscape identity, and deficits in fruit and vegetable production. While inefficient global ... -
Minimizing Terminal Food Waste within the Food Supply Chain
(2019-07-04)Approximately 30% of food produced globally is wasted each year. There is a significant need to understand the situation surrounding this food waste phenomenon. This research used a variety of mixed method approaches to ... -
A Model for Public Agrarian Architecture on the Suburban Edge
(2014-04-04)The thesis project is a study for the integration of farming, urban use, and ecology at the edge of the city. The aims of the test-of-principle are to connect the urban consumer with the rural food producer, processing and ... -
TWO ESSAYS ON THE ESTIMATION OF AGRICULTURAL TRADE FLOWS: MODEL SELECTION AND ENDOGENEITY OF TRADE AGREEMENTS
(2015)This thesis investigates three econometric issues relevant to the estimation of gravity models of agriculture trade, namely the issues of zero trade flows, heteroskedasticity, and the endogeneity of preferential trade ... -
Using Contribution Analysis to Evaluate U.S. Farm Link Programs: Opportunities to improve non-family succession of the 'family farm'
(2014-12-12)This research examines 12 U.S. Farm Link Programs (FLP) using a type of program evaluation called Contribution Analysis (CA) to determine if FLPs are effective in facilitating farmland transfers between retirement-aged ... -
Value Struggles: The Politics of Production in Rural Cuba
(2024-04-12)This dissertation examines the politics of value in contemporary rural Cuba, focusing on the agricultural region south of Havana. The Soviet bloc’s collapse in the 1990s and Cuba’s need to reconnect to the neoliberal global ... -
Woolscapes: Re-Connecting Nova Scotian Agriculture and Craft
(2016-04-08)Wool is a natural, renewable and biodegradable resource. It is used by the sheep to protect them from the elements; a natural form of architecture. Its properties as a thermally and acoustically insulating, water resistant, ...