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A social capital framework to assess ICTs mediated empowerment of environmental community organizations in Western Australia

open access: yes, 2009
The potential of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in empowering generally under-resourced community organizations has increasingly been acknowledged in recent years. While organizational empowerment refers to the capability to fulfil its
Dhakal, Subas P, Dhakal, S.P.
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

HPLC Fingerprint Analysis Combined with Chemometrics for Authentication of Kaempferia galanga from Related Species

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Chemistry, 2016
Fingerprint analysis using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) has been developed for authentication of Kaempferia galanga from related species, such as Kaempferia pandurata and K. rotunda.
Cahya Septyanti   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The scope of empowerment for conservation and communities

open access: yesConservation Biology
Abstract Conservationists increasingly position conservation that is mutually beneficial to people and biodiversity on the promise of empowerment of people through participatory discourse, metrics, processes, and outcomes. Empowerment represents multidimensional concepts and theories that permeate the interlinking
Michael A. Petriello   +8 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Latinos on the East Side of St. Paul

open access: yes, 2001
Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research (HACER). (2001). Los Latinos en el East Side de St. Paul.
Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research (HACER)
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Understanding community empowerment in urban regeneration and planning in England: putting policy and practice in context [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Community involvement in the fields of town planning and urban regeneration includes a wide range of opportunities for residents and service users to engage with networks, partnerships and centres of power. Both the terminology and degree of the transfer
Nick Bailey, Bailey, Nick
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Self‐Driving Laboratory Optimizes the Lower Critical Solution Temperature of Thermoresponsive Polymers

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
A low‐cost, self‐driving laboratory is developed to democratize autonomous materials discovery. Using this "frugal twin" hardware architecture with Bayesian optimization, the platform rapidly converges to target lower critical solution temperature (LCST) values while self‐correcting from off‐target experiments, demonstrating an accessible route to data‐
Guoyue Xu, Renzheng Zhang, Tengfei Luo
wiley   +1 more source

The Other Family: How Gangs Impact Latino Families and Communities

open access: yes, 2005
Gang involvement is a significant problem in Latino communities. This report focuses on the impact of gangs on Latino communities in Minnesota. The report is based on interviews with key informants on gang issues, including public policy makers, police ...
Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research (HACER)
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