Drivers of collective action among smallholder vegetable farmers in Benin, Burkina Faso, and Mali
Scientific AfricanCollective action is a vital strategy for smallholder farmers in developing countries to enhance their bargaining power, reduce transaction costs, and remain competitive in rapidly evolving agricultural markets.
Modeste D. Dohou +6 more
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The effects of scales, flows and filters on property rights and collective action in watershed management: [PDF]
Research and policy on property rights, collective action and watershed management requires good understanding of ecological and socio-political processes at different social-spatial scales.
Garrity, Dennis P. +2 more
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Reinventing Media Activism: Public Interest Advocacy in the Making of U.S. Communication-Information Policy, 1960-2002 [PDF]
, 2004 This report is a long-term analysis of citizens' collective action to influence public policy toward communication and information. The work discusses in greater detail what is meant by communication and information policy (CIP) and why we think it is ...
Brenden Kuerbis +2 more
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Protest or Riot?: Interpreting Collective Action in Contemporary France
, 2011 Although both events were fundamentally acts of contestation led by different segments of France’s youth, the fall 2005 riots and the spring 2006 CPE protests received very different treatment in French public opinion.
Murphy, John P.
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RIPK4 function interferes with melanoma cell adhesion and metastasis
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.RIPK4 promotes melanoma growth and spread. RIPK4 levels increase as skin lesions progress to melanoma. CRISPR/Cas9‐mediated deletion of RIPK4 causes melanoma cells to form less compact spheroids, reduces their migratory and invasive abilities and limits tumour growth and dissemination in mouse models.
Norbert Wronski +9 more
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PROTECTION, SELF-CARE AND THE SAFETY OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS
Sur: International Journal on Human Rights, 2020 Threats against feminists, LGBTQI+ people and black women in their diversity are becoming increasingly evident. This violence exposes civil society´s lack of preparedness to handle the considerable risks to human rights work, in the current political ...
Simone Cruz, Jelena Dordevic
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Local-level public goods and collective action [PDF]
According to the author, "Given the vital importance of public goods in providing basic services necessary for alleviating poverty and in managing the local natural resource base for sustainable development, this brief offers an approach to understanding
McCarthy, Nancy
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Rethinking plastic waste: innovations in enzymatic breakdown of oil‐based polyesters and bioplastics
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Plastic pollution remains a critical environmental challenge, and current mechanical and chemical recycling methods are insufficient to achieve a fully circular economy. This review highlights recent breakthroughs in the enzymatic depolymerization of both oil‐derived polyesters and bioplastics, including high‐throughput protein engineering, de novo ...
Elena Rosini +2 more
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Determinants of hyena participation in risky collective action. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2023 Montgomery TM +6 more
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Overview of molecular signatures of senescence and associated resources: pros and cons
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Cells can enter a stress response state termed cellular senescence that is involved in various diseases and aging. Detecting these cells is challenging due to the lack of universal biomarkers. This review presents the current state of senescence identification, from biomarkers to molecular signatures, compares tools and approaches, and highlights ...
Orestis A. Ntintas +6 more
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