Background and Analysis Brief Agricultural/Food History of Bulgaria Bulgaria is a beautiful country located in the Balkan Peninsula, bordering Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Romania, and the Black Sea. It spans 110,994 square kilometers and controls key land routes from Europe to the Middle East and Asia. It’s landscape is mountainous, and the climate features predominantly […]
Through our class readings and discussions we have looked at several different ethical principles, and there are three that I want to focus on for my project. Commitment to the Issue Being fully committed and engaged in the issue that I will be researching, food waste, is one of the most important ethical principles for […]
This past week we looked at a case study performed on a one year-long trial participatory research project in the United Kingdom. The Polyveg Garden Project was an attempt by the Permaculture Association (PA) to move towards academic research by looking at the productivity of a polyveg garden, in which a variety of vegetables are planted […]
Looking forward to my research project I have several goals that I want to set for myself in terms of the research project itself as well as my international experience. Pre-Trip: Before leaving for my trip, I hope to learn a little about the issue of food waste and food sustainability here in Houston, because, […]
After reading “To Hell with Good Intentions” by Ivan Illich, in which he criticized and generalized American volunteers as being wealthy students who “pretentiously impos[e] [them]selves on Mexicans” and do more harm than good, I felt a wave of guilt. I am an American student going to another country, albeit my home country. Am I […]
