Devouring the Invaders: The Racial‐Ecological Politics of the Chinese Crayfish Trade in Kenya
ABSTRACT This article examines entanglements of ecology, race, and foodways at Lake Naivasha in Kenya. Nonnative Louisiana red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii), first introduced to Kenya in the 1960s, were once viewed as invasive but are now sought after as a delicacy among Kenya's Chinese community.
Amanda Kaminsky
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Platform‐Based Gamification to Foster Cross‐Organisational Alignment—A Case Study
ABSTRACT Gamification has emerged as a significant tool for enhancing employee motivation, engagement and performance. While previous research has predominantly focused on gamification in single organisations, this study investigates how gamification may contribute to strategic alignment in outsourcing contexts. Drawing on an in‐depth case study of a 3‐
Helder Ferreira +2 more
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Constructing National Higher Education Brands: Korea, India and Israel Compared
ABSTRACT This study examines the websites of the national higher education (HE) brands of Study in Korea, Study in India and Study in Israel, exploring how these ‘offbeat’ destinations position themselves in the global HE market. Drawing on rhetorical analysis and employing a qualitative comparative case study approach, it reveals the key identity ...
Annette Bamberger +2 more
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Wibana: How Bobonaza Runa and Forest Animals Know and Live With Each Other
ABSTRACT Runa women living along the Bobonaza river in the Ecuadorian Amazon raise captured forest animals, in a practice called wibana. Runa women are attentive to the particular ways the wiba (raised) animals interface with the world, and learn the wibas’ communicative repertoires and are able to “read” what wibas sense in the forest, including ...
James Beveridge
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Strategies for stimulating poverty-alleviating growth in the rural nonfarm economy in developing countries: [PDF]
"The rural nonfarm economy (RNFE) accounts for roughly 25 percent of full-time rural employment and 35-40 percent of rural incomes across the developing world.
Haggblade, Steven +2 more
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Spartan Daily, January 24, 2018 [PDF]
Volume 150, Issue 1https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartan_daily_2018/1000/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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From peripheral hamlet to craft beer capital: Apecchio and the ‘Alogastronomia’
In 2012, the Italian Ministry for Territorial Cohesion launched the ‘National Strategy for Inner Areas’ (SNAI), a development strategy aimed at enhancing the quality of life and the access to essential services (health, education and transport) in areas ...
Maria Giulia Pezzi
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A practitioner's guide to 'Imagine', the systemic and prospective sustainability analysis [PDF]
The purpose of the Mediterranean Action Plans Coastal Area Management Programme is to help Mediterranean countries implement a sustainable management process for their coastal areas. This in particular implies thinking collectively about possible futures
Bell, Simon, Coudert, Elisabeth
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Impacts of \u3ci\u3eYartsa Gunbu\u3c/i\u3e Harvesting on Alpine Ecosystems in the Barun Valley, Makalu-Barun National Park, Nepal [PDF]
Around 2003, the highly valuable medicinal fungi Ophiocordyceps sinensis (Nepali: yartsa gunbu) began to be commercially harvested in the remote Barun valley of the Makalu-Barun National Park and Buffer Zone, eastern Nepal. Since then, an estimated 3,000
Byers, Alton C. +4 more
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