Distributors, agents, and publishers: creating a separate market for books in Canada 1900-1920. (1) Part I.
If books are to be distributed to Canadian readers, the work must be done by Canadian publishers. --George N. Morang, "The Development of Publishing in Canada and the Canadian Copyright Question," 1899 (3) I. "Toronto's Wholesale District Swept by Flames" Around 8:00 on the evening...

Everyday meanings of "local food": views from home and field.
A "buy local" approach to food sourcing appears to provide an increasingly salient mobilizing framework for city, county, and state level governments; non-profits; and funding agencies as a response to problems in the agri-food system. One rather constant source of tension, however, has been a failure to develop shared...

Natural patrimony and local communities in Ethiopia: advantages and limitations of a system of geographical indications.
ABSTRACT Among various processes of recognition and development of local know-how related to biodiversity, the protection systems based on Geographical Indications seem to open up interesting perspectives for the countries of the South. Ethiopia is on the way to equipping itself with such a tool. ...

Environmental crimes.
I. INTRODUCTION A. Criminal versus Civil Penalties B. Enforcement C. Interaction with Other Criminal Violations II. GENERAL ISSUES A. Overview of Elements of Environmental Criminal Violations B. Liability 1. Corporate Liability 2. Individual Liability C. Common Defenses 1. Constitutional Defenses 2. Other Defenses D. Voluntary Compliance and Sentencing E....

Distributors, agents, and publishers: Part II the Toronto publishing scene during World War I (1).
The war seems to have uncovered a new Canadian reading public just as much as it has brought new writers to birth, and with the improved machinery of publishing there never was a more appropriate movement [sic] far a new Canadian literature. --J.M. Gibbon "Where is Canadian...

The social relations of food.
Introduction: the Emerging Sociology and Anthropology of Food. The sociology and anthropology of food have recently become very fashionable places to work, with large volumes of books, articles and papers erupting from the academy. (1) This emerging concern with food has sent these new researchers off in...

Environmental crimes.
I. INTRODUCTION A. Criminal versus Civil Penalties B. Enforcement C. Interaction with Other Criminal Violations II. GENERAL ISSUES A. Overview of Elements of Environmental Criminal Violations B. Liability 1. Corporate Liability 2. Individual Liability C. Common Defenses 1. Constitutional Defenses 2. Other Defenses D. Voluntary Compliance and Sentencing E....

Agribusiness and farmers in Mexico: the importance of contractual relations.
Introduction Recent changes in food consumption habits of people in developed countries have included a growing demand for a greater variety of value-added products, which, in turn, has given rise to greater sophistication in food processing and distribution systems (Perry and Banker 2000, 50). This has led...

Environmental crimes.
I. INTRODUCTION Ten principal statutes (the "statutes") govern the enforcement of federal environmental regulations through criminal prosecution. Section II of this Article discusses issues common to most of these statutes, including theories of liability, defenses, and sentencing. Section III examines the Federal Water Pollution Control...

Urban agriculture in Mwanza, Tanzania.
ABSTRACT Many people living in Mwanza, Tanzania, provision themselves through urban agriculture--the planting of crops and raising of animals in urban and peri-urban areas, as well as in the countryside. This article compares Mwanza's urban farmers with those in Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Ghana. Like Zimbabwe's urban...