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food circle


1 A dynamic, community-based and regionally-integrated food systems concept/model/vision. In effect, it is a systems ecology. In contrast to current linear production-consumption systems, the food cir [..]
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cage free


Birds raised without cages. Does not guarantee that birds were allowed access to the outdoors or pasture. Birds may be raised in large flocks in commercial confinement facilities. There is no single, [..]
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carbon


footprint1 A representation of the effect human activities have on the climate in terms of the total amount of greenhouse gases produced (measured in units of carbon dioxide). Carrying Capacity1 Carry [..]
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eco-label


1 A seal or logo indicating that a product has met a set of environmental or social standards.
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externalities


1 In economics, benefits or costs that are not included in the market price of goods or services. For example, the cost of natural resource depletion, pollution and other environmental and social fact [..]
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foodshed


1  Most often attributed to Arthur Getz in his 1991 Urban Foodsheds article in Permaculture Activist [Vol. VII, no. 3], uses the analogy of a watershed to describe "the area that is defined b [..]
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global food system


5 A concept developed around the vast influences of trade, globalization, labor and market competition in the way it effects the production, distribution, pricing and consumption of food worldwide.
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heirloom


3 Heirloom crop varieties, also called farmers’ varieties or traditional varieties, have been developed by farmers through years of cultivation, selection,and seed saving, and passed down through gene [..]
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heritage


3 A term applied to breeds of livestock that were bred over time to be well-adapted to local environmental conditions, withstand disease, and survive in harsh environmental conditions. Heritage breeds [..]
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high tunnels


Also called high hoops or hoop houses. Temporary, covered (e.g. translucent plastic or polyethylene fabric) structures that extend the growing season. Constructed in the field in order to protect crop [..]
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