This descriptive survey research aimed to describe what agriculture educators found to be the most effective recruitment topics in urban programs in Arizona, as well as describe demographic data to provide educators with a baseline of information to evaluate their recruitment efforts. All urban agriculture teachers were given a web-based questionnaire and instructed to select the topics used during recruitment activities, then rank their effectiveness using a five-point Likert scale. Results indicate that a wide range of topics are utilized during recruitment and that McClelland's Acquired Needs serves as a strong framework for recruitment with all topics being ranked at moderately effective or higher. Achievement is perceived as more effective than power or affiliation. It is recommended that agriculture educators continue to use topics under all three needs, but be sure to emphasize achievement based topics.

The economic crisis of 2008 and subsequent implementation of austerity policies in Greece has had profound negative socio-economic impacts on Greek citizens. One way people seek to improve their socio-economic conditions is through participation in community organisations that have been studied for their ability to provide access to resources and representation. Through the application of a conceptual framework that connects the concepts of Social Capital and empowerment, this thesis investigates in what ways participation in Urban Agricultural Gardens (UAGs) in Thessaloniki benefits citizens. Specifically, the research aims to identify in what ways the formation of social relationships on these organisations produces and distributes Social Capital and whether this has empowering effects on individuals. The research positions itself within an ongoing discussion in what is referred to as a ‘neoliberal transition’, where in the last two decades social movements have increasingly contested forms of neoliberal governance and sought alternative forms of social organisation. Using empirical data from two Urban Agricultural Gardens in Thessaloniki, this thesis further investigates in what ways citizen empowerment may lead to contestations of neoliberal governance. While Social Capital was found to be generated at both organisations, there were differences in the ways it was produced and distributed. Stronger social ties were formed at PERKA due to an organisational structure that was conducive to social interaction. Similarly, narratives of contestation were found to be intensified by the physical and ideational practices at the organisation.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-13T17:10:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RosaMRL.pdf: 2199929 bytes, checksum: 02ac35a2567415e00d4182ce724898dd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-13 / The work however presented try to make an analysis of the relation urban-agricultural in the context of the process of metropolization of Natal. On the basis of this approach searched to argue the estruturation of the Brazilian urban space and the relation with the agricultural one, evidencing an academic debate little contemplated, in view of that the space transformations guided by Brazilian industrialization had earned as endorsement a mere urban direction, fact that neglected factors more complex than they for the urban-agricultural relation in the context of the urbanization and, more recently, of the metropolization. Another important factor in the construction of the work was the contextualization of the urbanization of the Rio Grande do Norte, as well as of the metropolization of Natal, where if the significant presence of an agricultural reality made an analysis of the configuration metropolitan in the present time displaying that also remains and reproduces the metropolis, fact that conditions and justifies the treatment of the reality metropolitan for the bias of the urban-agricultural relation. The approach of this relation was directed for the agricultural nestings of the Region Metropolitan of Natal (RMN), understood as fragments agricultural in the context of the metropolis, in view of that a tenuous correspondence of these nestings with the metropolis in the direction of its integration was observed. As methodology one used bibliographical survey in periodic and books and collected secondary data-collecting next to the IBGE and to the INCRA and still were directed a field research where interviews next to the seated ones had been carried through. In this direction, one evidenced that the metropolization also absorbs and even though it reproduces the ruralidade that if verifies in the RMN finishing for mining the idea of an urban one that it excludes the agricultural one. In the case of the RMN, we have agricultural and the urban one exactly if conforming in one space that is metropolitan / O trabalho ora apresentado busca fazer uma an?lise da rela??o urbano-rural no contexto do processo de metropoliza??o de Natal. Com base nesse enfoque buscou-se discutir a estrutura??o do espa?o urbano brasileiro e sua rela??o com o rural, evidenciando um debate acad?mico pouco contemplado, tendo em vista que as transforma??es espaciais orientadas pela industrializa??o brasileira ganharam como respaldo um sentido meramente urbano, fato que negligenciou fatores mais complexos que perpassam pela rela??o urbano-rural no contexto da urbaniza??o e, mais recentemente, da metropoliza??o. Outro fator importante na constru??o do trabalho foi a contextualiza??o da urbaniza??o do Rio Grande do Norte, assim como da metropoliza??o de Natal, onde se fez uma an?lise da configura??o metropolitana na atualidade expondo a presen?a significativa de uma realidade rural que inclusive se mant?m e reproduz a metr?pole, fato que condiciona e justifica o tratamento da realidade metropolitana pelo vi?s da rela??o urbano-rural. O enfoque dessa rela??o foi direcionado para os assentamentos rurais da Regi?o Metropolitana de Natal (RMN), entendidos como fragmentos rurais no contexto da metr?pole, tendo em vista que foi observada uma t?nue correspond?ncia desses assentamentos com a metr?pole no sentido de sua integra??o. Como metodologia utilizou-se levantamento bibliogr?fico em peri?dicos e livros e levantamento de dados secund?rios coletados junto ao IBGE e ao INCRA e ainda foi encaminhada uma pesquisa de campo onde foram realizadas entrevistas junto aos assentados. Nesse sentido, constatou-se que a metropoliza??o tamb?m absorve e at? mesmo reproduz a ruralidade que se verifica na RMN acabando por minar a id?ia de um urbano que exclui o rural. No caso da RMN, temos o rural e o urbano se conformando num mesmo espa?o que ? metropolitano

NDLTD Innovative Learning through ETDs Award 2010. This dissertation attempts to provide a platform where the local residents can be educated, empowered and given the oppertunity to earn an income. This platform develops the community from the bottom up and could be implemented in townships across the country. The program takes form as an urban agricultural centre. The centre is located near Eerste Fabrieke Station in Mamelodi and is used as generator for other business, commercial and recreational activities. The urban agricultural centre also serves as a connection between Nellmapius and Mamelodi. Copyright / Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Architecture / unrestricted