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Analyzing the Development of a Sustainable Enterprise in an Emerging Economy: Black Cacau and the Bean‐to‐Bar Philosophy

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines sustainable entrepreneurship (SE) in emerging economies through the case of Black Cacau, a Brazilian bean‐to‐bar enterprise integrating agroforestry, direct trade, and Afro‐Brazilian cultural empowerment. Adapting the Patagonia‐based framework of Allal‐Chérif et al., the study explores how SE operates under conditions of ...
Marcelo Dionisio
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Maturity classification of cacao through spectrogram and convolutional neural network

Jurnal Teknologi dan Sistem Komputer, 2020
Cacao pod's ideal harvesting time is when it is about to be ripe. Immature harvest would result in hard cacao beans not suitable for fermentation, while overripe cacao pods lead to fungal-infected, defective, and poor-quality yields.
Gilbert E. Bueno, Kristine A. Valenzuela, Edwin R. Arboleda   +2 more
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Activated carbons made from cocoa (Theobroma cacao) and coconut (Cocos nucifera) shells can be used as adsorbents to improve the quality of frying oils

Food Biomacromolecules, EarlyView.
Carbonised cocoa shells and carbonised coconut shells have a high level of porosity and a large adsorption surface area. Activated carbons made from cocoa and from the mixture cocoa–coconut shells at 15% demonstrated their ability to reduce primary and secondary oxidation products in frying oils and improves the organoleptic properties of fried foods ...
Gires Boungo Teboukeu, Prudent Ngabe Mituga, Ghislain Tazoho Maffo, Georges Teikam Kenda, Ronice Zokou, Archelle Abaobo Foudjin, Hilaire Macaire Womeni   +6 more
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Mineral profile of cocoa powder: Analytical approach in commercial samples

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.
Abstract BACKGROUND Cocoa powder is widely used in the food industry and has high nutritional value due to its composition, including minerals. The main factors related to the presence of minerals in cocoa powder are soil, processing, and cultivation practices.
Mateus Barbosa Silva, Herick Macedo Santos, Joane Cristina Costa Pereira, Heliara Caires Sousa, Raildo Mota de Jesus, Danilo Junqueira Leão, Leandro Soares Santos, Sibelli Passini Barbosa Ferrão   +7 more
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Teacher Education challenges for Schools of Education: Pragmatism and Simplification

Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2013
This paper analyzes recent policies of teacher eduation in Brazil related to the employment and professional dimmensions of the teaching career. It analyzes teacher education policies, and the guidelines established by the World Bank in the 1990s, to ...
Maria Izaura Cação
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Cacao swollen shoot virus detection and DNA barcoding of its vectors and putative vectors in Theobroma cacao L. by using polymerase chain reaction

BioTechnologia, 2021
Cacao swollen shoot virus (CSSV) is an endemic pathogen causing significant economic losses to cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) production in West Africa. There is limited updated report on the occurrence, spread, genetic diversity and species of CSSV and its ...
Ekemini Obok, Peter Aikpokpodion, Obinna Ani, Joël Allainguillaume, Andrew Wetten   +4 more
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Phenotypic, physicochemical, sensory, and functional attributes of cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) from Brazilian Amazonian floodplain and upland ecosystems

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.
Abstract BACKGROUND Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) from the Brazilian Amazon plays an important role in national production. While most cocoa is cultivated in upland systems, floodplain ecosystems represent a traditional and distinct production environment that may influence bean composition and quality.
Danielle Amaral e Silva, Consuelo Lúcia Sousa de Lima, Giulia Victória Silva Lima, Angela Maria Miranda Silva, Neirivaldo Cavalcante da Silva, Hervé Louis Ghislain Rogez, Jesus Nazareno Silva de Souza   +6 more
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Embriogênese somática, metilação do DNA e proteômica em quatro genótipos de Theobroma cacao L. do Equador [PDF]

, 2013
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Recursos Genéticos Vegetais, Florianópolis, 2013.O cacaueiro (Theobroma cacao L.) é uma espécie tropical com tem um elevado valor ...
Quinga, Liliana Alexandra Pila
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Socio-economic characterization of the traditional agroforestry cacao system (Theobroma cacao L.)

Revista de Ciencias Agrícolas, 2021
Cacao farmers face many challenges to increase yield while adjusting their farms to future environmental and socio-economic uncertainties. Improving the management practices of cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) cultivation systems requires knowledge of their
William Ballesteros-Possú, Jorge Fernando Navia E., Jesús-Geovanny Solarte-Guerrero   +2 more
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The importance of wild meat and freshwater fish for children's nutritional intake in the Congo Basin

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Wild meat and freshwater fish are widely consumed in the Congo Basin, but in some areas, they are at risk of disappearing due to unsustainable hunting and fishing and changes in their habitat. Wild meat is also at risk of being eliminated from local diets due to potential policy changes such as wild meat bans.
Amy Ickowitz, Muhammad Faisal Pratama, Mahdiyatur Rahmah, Caleb Yengo Tata, Erasmus Nchuaji Tang, Judith Laure Ngondi, Victor Buhendwa Mirindi   +6 more
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