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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 +2 more
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A global strategy for the conservation and use of cacao genetic resources, as the Foundation for a sustainable cocoa economy [PDF]
, 2012 The future of the world cocoa economy depends on the availability of genetic diversity and the sustainable use of this broad genetic base to breed improved varieties. Decreasing cacao genetic diversity (in situ, on-farm and conserved in collections) is a
Cryer, N.C. +12 more
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Complementary and Integrative Medicine for the Treatment of Tourette's Syndrome
Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.Abstract Background There is widespread interest in complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) among people with Tourette's syndrome (TS). Objective To perform a systematic review of evidence on the use of CIM to reduce tics and improve tic‐related quality of life.
Tamara Pringsheim +21 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 +6 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’s Relationship with Mesoamerican Society [PDF]
, 2013 We know what we eat, but do we eat what we know? Our diet extends far beyond nutrients and food availability—we imbue food with cultural significance. The meaning and use of a particular food is subject to change over time, but the fact that it holds a ...
Christopher, Hillary
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Tropical forests are rapidly declining. One promising strategy to reverse the loss of tropical forest is the establishment of agroforestry on open land. We combined interviews with biodiversity surveys to learn general lessons from success and nonsuccess stories of the establishment of open‐land‐derived coffee agroforests in one of the world's ...
Lucas M. Fonzaghi +3 more
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A Crop Modelling Strategy to Improve Cacao Quality and Productivity
Plants, 2022 Cacao production systems in Colombia are of high importance due to their direct impact in the social and economic development of smallholder farmers. Although Colombian cacao has the potential to be in the high value markets for fine flavour, the lack of
Angela Patricia Romero Vergel +4 more
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Classical and "omics" approaches to control witches' broom disease of cacao [W120] [PDF]
, 2015 In Theobroma cacao the main biotic stresses are cause by fungi, i.e Moniliophthora perniciosa (Mp), causal agent of witches' broom disease of cacao (WBD). Breeding of Mp-resistant varieties is confronted with two major difficulties at present.
Clément, Didier +4 more
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