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The long road to a sustainable banana trade

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 5, Issue 5, Page 662-671, September 2023., 2023
Bananas are the world's most popular dessert fruit and a staple starch crop for millions in low‐ and middle‐income countries. The banana export trade that supplies North America, Europe, and other wealthy nations has a history fraught with exploitation and conflict.
Daniel P. Bebber
wiley   +1 more source

Implementación de políticas de prevención y control de la obesidad infantil en Estados Unidos y Latinoamérica: lecciones para la investigación y la práctica transfronterizas

open access: yesObesity Reviews, Volume 22, Issue S5, Octubre 2021., 2021
Resumen Aunque se han hecho avances en el desarrollo y aplicación a gran escala de intervenciones eficaces contra la obesidad infantil, los retos siguen siendo importantes. Nuestro objetivo era comprender las causas del éxito de Estados Unidos y los países latinoamericanos en la implementación de políticas y programas (PYP) contra la obesidad e ...
Rafael Pérez‐Escamilla   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

HUMBOLDT IN VENEZUELA AND CUBA: THE ‘SECOND SLAVERY’

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 311-325, July 2021., 2021
ABSTRACT The reception of Humboldt's work now spans more than 200 years. It began with the publication of the texts that form his Opus Americanum (1808–31). Among these works, it was in the Political Essay on Cuba, where a chapter was devoted to the demography of the slave trade from Africa to Cuba, that became a cornerstone of the global historical ...
Michael Zeuske
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Tapping birdwatchers to promote bird‐friendly coffee consumption and conserve birds

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 3, Issue 2, Page 312-324, April 2021., 2021
Abstract Though coffee was traditionally grown as an understory crop beneath mature trees (i.e. ‘shade‐grown’ coffee), most farms have been converted to full‐sun monocultures over time, which fail to support ecosystem services or biodiversity. The conversion from shade‐ to sun‐grown coffee has prompted the development of environmentally focused ...
Alicia Williams   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Documenting the UNESCO feast: stories of women’s ‘empowerment’ and programmatic cooking

open access: yesSocial Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 188-204, February 2021., 2021
Heritage politics can transform a dish, a cuisine or a meal into the emblem of a nation, a region or a community. A cultural and economic driver, culinary heritage has revealed the opportunities that actors can draw out of cultural essentialism, and the commercial exploitation that this can lead to. However, we know less about the consequences culinary
Raúl Matta
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of technically qualified surgeons on laparoscopic colorectal resection outcomes: results of a propensity score‐matching analysis

open access: yesBJS Open, Volume 4, Issue 3, Page 486-498, June 2020., 2020
The outcomes of 586 procedures performed or attended by surgeons certified by the Endoscopic Surgical Skill Qualification System (ESSQS) were compared with 842 procedures performed by surgeons without the ESSQS qualification. Attendance of ESSQS‐qualified surgeons led to superior outcomes in terms of duration of surgery, and operative complication and ...
N. Ichikawa   +15 more
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Implementing ISO/IEC 29110 to reinforce four very small entities of Mexico under an agile approach

open access: yesIET Software, Volume 14, Issue 2, Page 75-81, April 2020., 2020
Very small entities (VSEs) of software development have had a significant demand and economic impact in recent years, because most of them are the software producers for medium and big companies in order to satisfy the growing demand of software. In this context, it is important to ensure that they produce quality software to successfully meet the ...
Mirna Muñoz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

La adopción de instrumentos de certificación como garantía eficiente en la protección de los datos personales

open access: yesRevista Catalana de Dret Públic, 2021
El presente trabajo tiene por objeto el análisis de los mecanismos de certificación vigentes desde la efectiva aplicación del Reglamento General de Protección de Datos (RGPD). Como punto de partida, estos se abordan desde su enfoque eminentemente técnico
Jorge Agustín Viguri Cordero
doaj   +1 more source

Certificación de calidad en los archivos. Análisis y prospectiva

open access: yesRevista Española de Documentación Científica, 2011
Análisis del alcance de la certificación en la práctica archivística. Descripción del proceso certificador, de la normativa específica utilizada para ello y de los organismos certifi cadores, con el fin de mostrar su funcionamiento y difundir fuentes y ...
Manuela Moro Cabero
doaj   +1 more source

Gestión estratégica de la calidad para la mejora educativa en México

open access: yesRevista Venezolana de Gerencia, 2023
La calidad de la educación juega un papel fundamental en la preparación de individuos para enfrentar los desafíos de la sociedad actual; por lo que la calidad educativa no solo se trata de brindar conocimientos, sino también de diseñar y ejecutar ...
Miriam Janet Cervantes-López   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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