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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Cities farming for the future. Silang, Philippines : RUAF Foundation : International Institute of Rural Reconstruction ; Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, ©2006 (DLC) 2007380776 (OCoLC)77571431 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
René van Veenhuizen; RUAF Foundation.; International Institute of Rural Reconstruction.; International Development Research Centre (Canada) |
ISBN: | 9781552502167 1552502163 1930261144 9781930261143 |
OCLC Number: | 175314013 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 459 pages) : illustrations |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""1 Introduction, Cities Farming for the Future""; ""2 Sustaining Urban Agriculture Requires the Involvement of Multiple Stakeholders""; ""3 Integration of Agriculture in Urban Land Use Planning and Adaptation of City Regulations""; ""4 Financing and Investment for Urban Agriculture""; ""5 Gendering the Urban Agriculture Agenda""; ""6 Urban Agriculture and the Building of Communities""; ""7 Local Economic Development and Marketing of Urban Produced Food""; ""8 Recycling of Urban Organic Waste for Urban Agriculture"" ""9 Wastewater Use for Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture""""10 Participatory Technology Development for Urban Agriculture: collaboration and adaptation along the urban-rural transect""; ""11 Urban Horticulture""; ""12 Livestock Keeping in Urbanised Areas, does history repeat itself?""; ""13 Urban Aquatic Production""; ""14 Urban Forestry for Multifunctional Urban Land Use""; ""List of Acronyms and Abbreviations""; ""List of Figures, Tables and Boxes""; ""The Authors""; ""The Cases""; ""RUAF Partners List""; ""General Resources"" |
Responsibility: | edited by René van Veenhuizen. |
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Abstract:
Filipino Americans are the second largest group of Asian Americans as well as the second largest immigrant group in the United States. This collection reflects on their lives, which represent the diversity of the immigrant experience and their narratives are a way to understand ethnic identity and Filipino American history.
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"Filipino American Lives offers a collection of 13 life stories as told by the people who lived them.... [F]rom these disparate backgrounds, a Filipino American identity emerges and Espiritu does an excellent job of letting the reader see its complexity." -Pacific Reader "...a useful means of understanding ethnic identity and Filipino American history." -The Diversity Factor Read more...
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