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Bold Claims, Low Wages: Why Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) Struggle to Implement Living Wages

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Voluntary sustainability standards (VSS)—such as Fairtrade International and the Forest Stewardship Council—aim to improve sustainability in global supply chains by setting high social and environmental standards and certifying businesses that adopt them.
Elizabeth A. Bennett
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Among traditions and modernity: local ecological knowledge, fishing conflicts and fisheries management in the Rio Negro, Brazil

Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2011
The paper outlines an anthropological analysis of the artisanal fisheries in the Rio Negro, Brazilian Amazonia, concerning customary versus external rules determined by governmental institutions.
Andréa Leme da Silva
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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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A simulation model of artisanal fisheries of Senegal

, 1991
A simulation model was designed to correspond to a Senegalese artisanal fishery. Each fishing unit has a strategy, and at a given time chooses a tactic from a set available tactics, according to a decision rule taking into account expected "revenues".
Laloë, Francis, Samba, A.
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A Natural History of ‘Annoyances’: Knowing Weeds and Weeding Knowledge in the Early Royal Society and its ‘Georgicall Committee’

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Seventeenth‐century virtuosi often figured themselves as epistemic weeders, grubbing up rank thickets of accumulated error. In this article, I argue that these metaphors were unnerved by the shifting status of weeds—ostensibly unwanted plants from the margins of cultivated space, unploughed land or the disturbed soils between growing crops—in ...
Francis Taylor
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Making space for living and livelihoods in Vietnam: The everyday politics of peri‐urban land use

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, EarlyView.
Preserving agricultural land for rice cultivation in Vietnam is a national priority. Yet in many areas, farmers continue to repurpose rice land for non‐agricultural uses in violation of state regulations. Drawing on the conceptual framework of ‘everyday politics’ (EP), this paper examines this tension through research conducted in two peri‐urban ...
Tuan Anh Nguyen, Jonathan Rigg
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Seychelles artisanal fisheries statistics for 1997

, 1998
(1). During 1997 an estimated total of 4095 tonnes of fish was landed on Mahe, Praslin and La Digue by 348 fishing boats. 83.5% of the total catch was landed on Mahe alone. The catch volume has decreased by 415 tonnes compared to the 1996 catch and the number of boats operating has increased by 21 over the same period. (2).
Azemia, R., Boulle, D.P.
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“Is This Edible Anyway?” The Impact of Culture on the Evolution (and Devolution) of Mushroom Knowledge

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Mushrooms are a ubiquitous and essential component in our biological environment and have been of interest to humans around the globe for millennia. Knowledge about mushrooms represents a prime example of cumulative culture, one of the key processes in human evolution.
Andrea Bender, Åge Oterhals
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The Origins of Fashion

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper reconceptualizes fashion as a deep‐time system of bodily communication rather than a byproduct of modern consumer societies. We define fashion as a socially transmitted system of bodily display in which patterned variation occurs within shared conventions of appearance.
Francesco d'Errico, Solange Rigaud
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Seychelles artisanal fisheries statistics for 1991

, 1992
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Mees, C. C., Grandcourt, E.
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