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Feminist Agroecology and Criollo Hens: Women's Everyday Resistance in Colombia

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Industrial poultry technologies and processes are reshaping the knowledge, practice and agrobiodiversity of criollo (Gallus domesticus) or backyard hen keeping, as well as outcompeting this livelihood in formal markets. This transition undermines women's autonomy and socio‐economic resilience by engendering dependence on market inputs ...
Jaskiran Kaur Chohan, Arlex Angarita Leiton   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indigenous people’s experience of multiple legal problems and multiple disadvantage - a working paper [PDF]

, 2014
This paper explores differences in the experience of legal problems by Indigenous status. Abstract: The Legal Australia-Wide (LAW) Survey found that Indigenous people who experience legal problems had an increased likelihood of experiencing multiple ...
Hugh M. McDonald, Zhigang Wei
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Shape of Water: Power Dynamics for Supply Chain Resilience

Journal of Supply Chain Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The world is facing climate change‐driven disruptions such as extreme weather events, which affect nature as well as firms and their supply chains. Nonetheless, little is known about how supply chain players shape their socioecological resilience, including from a power perspective.
Aristides R. Oliveira Junior, Minelle E. Silva, Fabiana L. Oliveira, Daiane M. Neutzling   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indigenous People, Telecommunications and Consumer Protection

, 2013
Indigenous people in their dealings with telecommunications companies (‘telcos’) face a broad range of issues. The role of consumer protection law in safeguarding Indigenous people has been raised at different intervals in the past.1 In the last five ...
Loban, Heron
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Patent landscape analysis of inventions based on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and related digital sequence information

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract This article provides an overview of the patent landscape in relation to PGRFA‐based inventions involving naturally occurring (“native”) traits and related Digital Sequence Information/Genetic Sequence Data (DSI/GSD). In particular, it focuses on the potential of patent claims to limit others' uses of PGRFA and related DSI/GSD on which the ...
Claudio Chiarolla, Michael Andreas Kock, Paul Oldham, Michael Halewood, Isabel López Noriega, Jasmine Kindness   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Success factors for Indigenous entrepreneurs and community-based enterprises [PDF]

, 2014
Introduction: This resource sheet reviews the available literature on the key factors that have underpinned successful Indigenous entrepreneurs and community-based enterprises.
Sam Morley
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The application of geomatic technologies in an indigenous context : Amazonian Indians and indigenous land rights [PDF]

, 2010
Indigenous people have employed Western analogue techniques (maps, charts, etc) to support their land rights ever since their traditional territories came under threat.
Menell, David
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Diet and leishmaniasis in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In Ecuador's Amazon, Indigenous communities affected by leishmaniasis often modify their diets as part of their health‐seeking practices. Drawing on qualitative research with sixty‐eight participants from seven Indigenous groups, this study explores how and why patients’ diets shift in pursuit of healing from leishmaniasis.
Veronica Cristina Vargas Roman
wiley   +1 more source

Sculpture and Painting of Colonial Peru. Universal and Local Features

Ибероамериканские тетради
The study aims to explore the uniqueness of Andean art, which is an amalgam of autochthonous and European elements. The formation of Latin American cultural identity is closely linked to the colonial era, an important period in the continent’s history ...
D. G. Fedosov
doaj   +1 more source

Rethinking EU environmental law: Towards the ecologisation of the European legal order

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critically examines the structural limitations of the EU's environmental legal framework in the context of the current ecological crisis and explores the potential transition towards an ecocentric paradigm. While the EU has developed one of the most advanced environmental regulatory systems globally, its effectiveness remains ...
Susana Borràs‐Pentinat
wiley   +1 more source