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Metagenomics Reveals Diet-Specific Specialization of Bacterial Communities in Fungus Gardens of Grass- and Dicot-Cutter Ants

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Leaf-cutter ants in the genus Atta are dominant herbivores in the Neotropics. While most species of Atta cut dicots to incorporate into their fungus gardens, some species specialize on grasses.
Lily Khadempour   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Parental involvement and engagement during COVID‐19 lockdowns: School staff and parents' reflections about children's learning at home

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Valuing parental engagement, as part of home–school collaboration, can benefit children's learning. This article focuses on parents and school‐based staff's (N = 120) experiences of children's learning occurring at home during the COVID‐19 lockdowns (2020–2021), both school‐mandated and other learning activities.
Ashley Brett   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Children's food activism: Reflections on knowledge and responsibility

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children as activists have become more prominent in recent years. Their activism is manifest in relation to conspicuously political topics such as Black Lives Matter, voting rights, being able to air their views or protesting against injustices related to race, culture and other identities. Less often, if at all, do children engage politically
Sharon Hunter   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamics of biotic resistance to plant invasions

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biotic resistance, the reduction in invasion success caused by native communities, plays an important role in the long‐term dynamics of biological invasions. A large body of empirical research on biotic resistance has accumulated since the last comprehensive review on the subject 20 years ago, enabling us to achieve a refined understanding of ...
Christine S. Sheppard   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rising Strong: Cultivating Resilience in Edible City Entrepreneurship. Insights Into the Landscape of Urban Food Initiatives

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to growing global challenges, this study explores how social entrepreneurship within the Edible City movement contributes to building resilient, sustainable, and equitable urban food systems. Drawing on semistructured interviews with over 70 stakeholders across five cities—Berlin, Andernach, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Havana—we ...
Ina Säumel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of Resettled Residents’ Engagement in Community Gardens and Preferences for Garden Development Factors in Beijing

open access: yesBuildings
Resettlement communities arising from China’s urbanization process accommodate both landless resettled villagers and non-resettled villagers who migrate to cities for work.
Ye Liu, Mingxin Ma, Siqiao Zhou
doaj   +1 more source

Green Is the New Gold: Redefining Opulent Lifestyle Through Organic Food Purchases

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior studies based on the Theory of Planned Behavior mostly examined the effects of health and environmental concerns on organic food consumption; however, few addressed the paradoxical relationships in the context of opulent or symbolic decorum.
Neha Sharma   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Community Food Production as Food Security: Resource and Economic Valuation in Madison, Wisconsin (USA)

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2014
Community food production (CFP) is emerging worldwide as a key component of programming designed to address community food insecurity. CFP resources in the form of home gardens, community gardens, and school gardens continue to gain wide support and ...
Vincent M. Smith, John A. Harrington
doaj   +1 more source

Food System Through the Lens of a Circular Society: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Integrating Literature and Practice

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular society (CS) conceptualises circularity as a multi‐level governance transformation involving the redistribution of authority, responsibility and coordination across socio‐institutional systems. Yet the concept remains insufficiently operationalised in empirical research.
Mohina Gandhi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pollutant accumulation and microbial community evolution in rain gardens with different drainage types at field scale

open access: yesScientific Reports
Rain gardens play a key role in urban non-point source pollution control. The drainage type affects the infiltration processes of runoff pollutants.
Zhaoxin Zhang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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