Food Connect Brisbane started in 2004‚ with the vision of establishing a highly effcient food distribution enterprise that is both equitable to small farmers and provides affordable great quality fresh food to urban residents. To counteract the unsustainable and inequitable practices of the food industry‚ founder robert Pekin sought to develop a participatory model for food production and distribution which would ‘look after and dignify small farmers’. The company began in Brisbane
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In Meagan Flynn’s article “The Promise of Indoor‚ Hurricane-Proof “Vertical” Farms‚” published in The Atlantic‚ she explains a new type of farm that is emerging. She uses Federico Marques’s farm as her main example of these new farms. She explains that they are vertical farms‚ “where plants are stacked in trays on shelves‚ instead of laid out horizontally across larger plots of land. In these high-tech structures‚ plants don’t rely on sunlight or soil‚ rainwater or pesticides‚ but LED lights and
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The development of mining machinery and technological progress of modern science and technology and is closely related to the overall industrial level‚ in particular‚ mining and mechanical engineering disciplines‚ science and development are closely linked. Present is the era of information age‚ where information technology has four major characteristics‚ namely‚ intelligence‚ electronic‚ global‚ non-group-oriented. Automated underground mining is no face or hazardous mining development‚ but also
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In Milton’s Paradise Lost‚ the prominence of “celestial machinery” cannot be stressed enough. The divine figures in Milton’s epic play central roles to shaping the destinies of Adam and Eve. Where God gives man free will Satan exploits this and corrupts man‚ resulting in their downfall. Milton adapts celestial machinery to his epic poem through God and Satan. In this way‚ when God gives man the power to think for themselves‚ it is in fact the first instance that a divine figure has played an active
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Alexander Pope had used the Rosicrucian philosophy as the supernatural machinery of his mock-heroic poem Rape of the Lock. As for the supernatural machinery‚ which neoclassical criticism considers indispensable for an epic‚ Pope reveals remarkable inventiveness. The sylphs of "The Rape of the Lock" are Pope’s mocking recreation of the gods who watch over the heroes of epics and guide their fortune. It is nicely fitting that Pope’s supernatural beings‚ who are supposed to imitate Homer’s deities
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Student Name: Ameena Khizar Hayat Khan Student ID: bc120201597 Scenario: Gender discrimination in agricultural activities Pakistan is an agricultural country. Its economy is based on agriculture that contributes about 25 % to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Agriculture is the main sector of employment where total employed labor force is 44.8 %. Males involved in labor force in agricultural sector are 38.4% and women labor force is 69.9% which is highest as compared to other sectors. Almost
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Reliability analysis in ship’s critical machinery Objectives 1. Implement Markov process to identify availability of the engines of a vessel. 2. Using Monte Carlo simulation technique to model the Markov process using non-continuous transition rates. 3. Using the simulation model‚ calculate different reliability cost and worth‚ using numerous what-if scenarios. Objectives #1: Implement Markov process to identify availability of the engines of a vessel. Markov Process A Markov
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Acknowledgement The researcher would like to thank the subject teacher for the time spent In explaining every step of this project‚ and also to the students who helped a lot. Finally to the parents of Aranaputa valley who contributed in making this project a successful one. INTRODUCTION This project is base on the cultivation of Boulanger (Solanum melongena)
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CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION RESEARCH UNIT Date : 2nd Quarter‚ 2009 From : Agriculture Desk Subject : Boosting Agricultural Productivity in Nigeria. Introduction: Agricultural sector was the mainstay of the Nigerian economy before independence‚ 75% of the Nigerian workforce was engaged in agriculture and immediately after it‚ until the oil boom of the 1970s. In the 1970s‚ agriculture provided the needed food for the population as well as serving as a major foreign exchange earner
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT - International aspects of agricultural policy BACKGROUND DOCUMENT FOR THE ADVISORY GROUP ON INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF AGRICULTURE 30 January 2012 Updated 1 June 2012 INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF AGRICULTURAL POLICY‚ UPDATED 1.6.2012 C 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 3.5. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 4.5. 5.1. 5.2. 5.3. 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. 6.5. 6.6. 7.1. 7.2. 7.3. 7.4. 7.5. 7.6. 7.7.
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