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Food waste in an alternative food network – A case-study
Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2019 This paper investigates food waste dynamics in a retail alternative food network (AFN). We provide a first contribution to assess food waste in an AFN in terms of 1) food waste levels, 2) food waste causes, and 3) food waste management practices (i.e. food waste reduction and handling).
Jakub Rok +2 more
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Positioning Food Cultures: ‘Alternative’ Food as Distinctive Consumer Practice [PDF]
Sociology, 2016 Many sociological studies to date have explored the role of food in marking distinctions between groups. Less well understood is how ‘alternative’ means of food consumption become figured in such relations. Drawing on accounts of food practice derived from 20 in-depth interviews and a two-year period of participant observation, this article considers ...
Jessica Paddock
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Human-Relevant Sensitivity of iPSC-Derived Human Motor Neurons to BoNT/A1 and B1
Toxins, 2021 The application of botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) for medical treatments necessitates a potency quantification of these lethal bacterial toxins, resulting in the use of a large number of test animals.
Maren Schenke +6 more
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Agritepa, 2023 The porang plant is a tuber-producing plant developed because it can increase farmers' income. Sunlight intensity and the growing environment are essential factors that affect the growth and yield of porang plants. The research aims to get the best shade,
Mita Lestari +3 more
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Alternative Food Networks and the Socialization of Food
Économie des conventions, 2021 The Alternative Food Networks’ (AFN) conceptual framework appeared in the context of the internationalization of food provision systems, and of the so-called quality turn, to distinguish food networks connecting territories, products, and people, which claim to be alternatives to conventional food systems, or alternatives to dominant food supply chains.
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Insects, 2021 While insect predators need high-quality food to reach sexual maturity and reproduce, starvation following adult eclosion may occur when prey are missing in agroecosystems. This study explores whether the type of diet available at eclosion determines the
Séverin Hatt, Naoya Osawa
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Biomass, 2023 African countries have been severely affected by food insecurity such that 54% of the population (73 million people) are acutely food insecure, in crisis or worse.
Blessing Ugwoke +4 more
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Yield and Toxin Analysis of Leaf Protein Concentrate from Common North American Coniferous Trees
Biomass, 2023 In the event of an abrupt sunlight reduction scenario, there is a time window that occurs between when food stores would likely run out for many countries (~6 months or less) and ~1 year when resilient foods are scaled up. A promising temporary resilient
Maryam Mottaghi +4 more
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INCLUSION OF GUAVA WASTES IN THE DIET OF EUROPEAN QUAILS
Ciência Animal Brasileira, 2015 This experiment was conducted to analyze the performance and carcass characteristics of European quail fed agroindustry residue of guava in substitution of corn. 140 birds were used, distributed in a completely randomized design. The treatments consisted
Luiz Carlos Lemos Camelo +5 more
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Moringa leaf meal in diets of slow-growing chickens on metabolizability, performance, carcass, organ biometry and meat colorimetry [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Saúde e Produção AnimalTwo investigations were developed. The first experiment was to determine the metabolizability of Moringa (Moringa oleifera) leaf meal. 120 slow-growing, 21-day-old chickens were used.
José Virgilio Aguilar VÁSQUEZ +5 more
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