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Learning About and Learning From Sustainability Alliances: How Do SMEs Develop Dynamic Capabilities?

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) develop sustainability capabilities by engaging in sustainability alliances. By combining perspectives on organisational learning theory and the dynamic capabilities framework, the research investigates how SMEs develop both networking and sustainability capabilities across ...
Raffaele Silvestri, Francesca Ceruti, Elisa Carloni, Anna Romagno   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The buzz about bees and poverty alleviation: Identifying drivers and barriers of beekeeping in sub-Saharan Africa.

PLoS ONE, 2017
The potential of beekeeping to mitigate the exposure of rural sub-Sahara African farmers to economic stochasticity has been widely promoted by an array of development agencies.
Deborah Ruth Amulen, Marijke D'Haese, Elizabeth Ahikiriza, Jacob Godfrey Agea, Frans J Jacobs, Dirk C de Graaf, Guy Smagghe, Paul Cross   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Application of Principal Component Analysis and Probabilistic Neural Networks in Ferralsols Recovery Evaluation Through Planting of Mabea Fistulifera and Eucalyptus Urograndis

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents an innovative assessment model for analyzing the evolution of degraded soils subjected to different reclamation strategies. The proposal combines statistical and artificial intelligence tools to jointly integrate multiple physical and chemical soil properties, allowing for a more synthetic view of the processes.
Melissa Alexandre Santos, Borja Velázquez‐Martí, Jorge João Delfim, Laura Silva Nantes, Jose Augusto Liberato de Souza, Gabriel Augusto da Silva Lunardelli, Dayara Vivian Alvares, Carolina dos Santos Batista Bonini   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expanding the reach: ethnobotanical knowledge and technological intensification in beekeeping among the Ogiek of the Mau Forest, Kenya

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2020
Background Initiatives for beekeeping intensification across the tropics can foster production and income, but the changes triggered by the introduction of modern beehives might permeate traditional knowledge and practices in multiple ways, and as such ...
Dauro Mattia Zocchi, Gabriele Volpato, Duncan Chalo, Patrick Mutiso, Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the role of dispersed floralresources for managed bees in providingsupporting ecosystem services for croppollination [PDF]

, 2018
Most pollination ecosystem services studies have focussed on wild pollinators and their dependence on natural floral resources adjacent to crop fields. However, managed pollinators depend on a mixture of floral resources that are spatially separated from
Colville, Jonathan F., Donaldson, John S., Melin, Annelie, Midgley, Jeremy J., Rouget, Mathieu   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Primary producers' positions towards bears and bear conservation: Insights for human–bear coexistence

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract We present primary producers' (farmers', livestock breeders', beekeepers') positions towards bears and bear conservation as documented through semi‐structured interviews within the frame of human dimensions actions of LIFE projects implemented between 2015 and 2022 in Greece.
Tasos Hovardas, Dimitris Bormpoudakis, Giorgos Chatzinakos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knockout of a single Pax6 gene (toy but not ey) leads to compound eye deficiency and small head in honeybees

Communications Biology
The compound eyes are crucial to honeybees, playing pivotal roles in color recognition, orientation, localization, and navigation processes. The development of compound eyes is primarily mastered by an evolutionarily conserved transcription factor Pax6 ...
Xiaofen Hu, Fuping Cheng, Zhixian Gong, Kaixin Qin, Tingting Shan, Wenwen Li, Lizhen Zhang, Weiyu Yan, Zhijiang Zeng, Zilong Wang   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Results of international standardised beekeeper surveys of colony losses for winter 2012-2013 : analysis of winter loss rates and mixed effects modelling of risk factors for winter loss. [PDF]

, 2014
This article presents results of an analysis of winter losses of honey bee colonies from 19 mainly European countries, most of which implemented the standardised 2013 COLOSS questionnaire.
Aivar Raudmets, Alison Gray, Ari Seppälä, BATES D, Bjørn Dahle, BORNMANN L, Christoph Otten, Flemming Vejsnæs, Franco Mutinelli, GRAY A, Grażyna Topolska, Jean-Daniel Charrière, Justinas Kretavicius, Lassi Kauko, Magnus Peterson, Marica M Drazic, Mary F Coffey, MUTINELLI F, Preben Kristiansen, R DEVELOPMENT CORE TEAM, Robert Brodschneider, Romée van der Zee, Róbert Chlebo, Valters Brusbardis, VAN DER ZEE R, VANENGELSDORP D, Victoria Soroker, Violeta Santrac   +27 more
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Saplings of significance: Nurturing cultural value of new tree plantings through participatory opportunities

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Tree‐planting initiatives are a crucial part of international sustainability and climate action efforts. Yet, many of these initiatives fail to achieve their long‐term sustainability and climate goals. The role of community value is an often‐overlooked factor in promoting the success of new tree plantings.
Claire L. Narraway, Eline van Remortel, Sophie B. Cowling, Divya Kumar, Hanna Mroczka, Emilija Rudzinskaite, Georgina Sturgeon, Sasha Woods, Daniel B. Hayhow   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nitrogen-Dependent Growth and Yield Attributes in Mutant Lines of Solanum villosum: A Pathway to Enhanced Leafy Production

International Journal of Agronomy
This study investigates the response of selected improved mutant lines of Solanum villosum to varying nitrogen levels, focusing on their agronomic trait performance to enhance yield production.
Faraja Makwinja, Joseph O. Charles, Mkabwa L. K. Manoko   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source