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Status and potentials of the Philippine cassava industry
, 2017 Cassava is planted each year in about 120,000 hectares of agricultural land in the Philippines, producing about 1.8 million tonnes of cassava roots. Principal products of the processing industry are food, dried chips and starch.
Bacusmo, José L.
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Food without fire: Environmental and nutritional impacts from a solar stove field experiment
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Over 80% of the population in rural Sub‐Saharan Africa relies on biomass cooking fuel, a substantial source of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. We use a field experiment in Zambia to investigate the impact of solar stoves on biomass fuel use and cooking habits.
Laura E. McCann +4 more
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Biotechnological potential of cassava residues: Peel, bagasse and wastewater
, 2011 Advances in industrial biotechnology offer potential opportunities for the economic utilization of agro-industrial residues, such as those from the cassava processing industry. Three main types of residue are generated during the industrial processing of
Contiero, Jonas [UNESP] +2 more
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The economic foundations of powersharing: Evidence from Africa
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract How—and with whom—do rulers share power? Existing research focuses on the strategic logic of powersharing. In this paper, we analyze its economic foundations. Powersharing is modeled as a subnational fiscal contract, in which rulers allocate political representation based on constituencies’ revenue potential. Empirically, we combine historical
Yannick I. Pengl, Philip Roessler
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The study analysed the determinants of total factor productivity by the use of OLS regression technique among small-holder cassava farmers in Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State.
Emetu, J, Ukoha, O.O, Okoye, B.C
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Global cassava starch markets current situation and outlook
, 2017 Current global starch production is approximating 50 million tonnes. While the starch production growth rate steadily continues to surpass average population growth figures, the make-up by starch source and production regions have been changing.
Henry, Guy, Westby, Andrew
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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Control of konzo in the Democratic Republic of Congo
, 2011 Konzo is an upper motor neuron disease that causes irreversible paralysis of the legs mainly in children and young women^1,2^, due to consumption of large amounts of cyanogens from poorly processed cassava, the staple food of tropical Africa^3^.
Ian C. Denton +5 more
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Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim Body dissatisfaction and unhealthy weight control behaviours are common during adolescence. We examined associations between body image, diet, physical activity, and risk behaviours for weight control among high school students. Methods This cross‐sectional study included 802 adolescents from five municipalities in southern Brazil ...
Leandro André Vieira Olsson +4 more
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Pathways out of poverty through cassava, maize and soybean in Thailand
This phase II covers the case study survey and interviews with farmers growing cassava, soybean and maize in the major producing areas, namely cassava farmers in Nakhonratchasima, soybean farmers in Sukhotai and maize farmers in Nakhonsawan, with the ...
Nareenat, Roonnaphai
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