College
College of Liberal Arts
Department
Ethnic Studies Department
Degree Name
BA in Comparative Ethnic Studies
Date
6-2013
Advisor(s)
Elvira Pulitano
Abstract/Summary
The purpose of my study is examining the ways in which agricultural
business is currently supporting and benefitting a non-profit organization.
Through participation of an international agricultural business, Plant Sciences Inc.
(PSI) and a Christian non-profit organization, Lifesong for Orphans, this study
has been a collaborative effort and process, observing agriculture as a means of
sustainability for a non-profit organization. This study has revealed the necessity
of not only updated technology and resources, but has also discovered a continued
necessity of dedicated personnel to the field. A major theme from my
observations was cross-cultural relations, and the ways in which the continuing
process of two disciplines (agriculture and non-profit work) coming together has
created opportunity for further successes in areas such as: globalization, and
economic sustainment. My work is helping bridge the two disciplines in the form
of the efforts of PSI and Lifesong for Orphans by the means of a small sustainable
strawberry farm. The project is revealing that the two practices, global non-profit
organization work, and agricultural business, can rely on each other to achieve
something other than the work they usually practice. Through PSI and Lifesong
for Orphans, this study is an example of cross-cultural and agricultural business
cooperation.
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