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Feeding the future in Ghana: Gender inequality, poverty, and food insecurity

World Medical &Health Policy, Volume 15, Issue 4, Page 638-671, December 2023., 2023
Abstract As women's empowerment is critical for the adoption of agricultural technologies by farmers, some governments have over the last three decades adopted a gender equality approach to food security. In Ghana, women play a vital role as farmers and food processors, which means they impact household nutrition in important ways.
Irene S. Egyir, Cheryl O'Brien, Joseph Bandanaa, George P. Opit   +3 more
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Can heterosis and inbreeding depression explain the maintenance of outcrossing in a cleistogamous perennial?

American Journal of Botany, Volume 110, Issue 10, October 2023., 2023
Abstract Premise What maintains mixed mating is an evolutionary enigma. Cleistogamy—the production of both potentially outcrossing chasmogamous and obligately selfing cleistogamous flowers on the same individual plant—is an excellent system to study the costs of selfing.
Tatyana Y. Soto, Juan Diego Rojas‐Gutierrez, Christopher G. Oakley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

In search of a substitution model for coca in Colombia: Buffalo, cocoa, and coffee in Peasant Reserve Zones

Latin American Policy, Volume 14, Issue 3, Page 388-407, September 2023., 2023
Abstract For years Colombia has been the world's largest coca producer. Its public management of crops for illicit use has swung between eradication, substitution, and, recently legalization. Forced eradication has been shown to be ineffective, and legalization is an incipient option, so the Peace Agreement puts forward substitution as the path to ...
Mª Josep Cascant‐Sempere, Celia Dávila, Susana Vesga   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecological convergence in phytochemistry and flower–insect visitor interactions along an Andean elevation gradient

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 13, Issue 8, August 2023., 2023
In this study, we detected patterns of ecological convergence along elevation in floral volatiles as well as cost–benefit ratio in seed versus pollinated seeds. Our results suggest that these evolutionary patterns are the result of biotic and abiotic pressures.
Alma Nalleli Carvajal Acosta, Ludovico Formenti, Adrienne Godschalx, Angelos Katsanis, Constanza Schapheer, Kailen Mooney, Cristian Villagra, Sergio Rasmann   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global warming facilitates the nesting of the loggerhead turtle on the Mediterranean coast of Spain

Animal Conservation, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 365-380, June 2023., 2023
Average summer sand temperature (July 20th–August 10th) at 40 cm deep in Spanish Mediterranean beaches, as reconstructed from air temperature at El Prat beach, has increased from 1950 to 2019 (top figure). As a result, the duration of the viable nesting window for loggerhead turtles (bottom figure) has also increased and the thermal environment has ...
L. Cardona, J. San Martín, L. Benito, J. Tomás, E. Abella, J. Eymar, M. Aguilera, J. A. Esteban, A. Tarragó, A. Marco   +9 more
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Working the Waste Commodity Frontier: Metabolic Value and Informal Waste Work

Antipode, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 458-479, March 2023., 2023
Abstract Ambitions for a European “circular economy” imply waste is becoming an important “commodity frontier”. Increased recycling in Europe has been accompanied by a proliferation of informal waste work. “Southern” geographies of informal recyclers provide resources for interpreting this phenomenon but studies of a commodity frontier in urban waste ...
Benjamin Irvine
wiley   +1 more source

Analisis de los Costos de Producción y Rentabilidad del Cultivo de Café (coffea spp) en la Region Amazonica del Ecuador

International Journal of Social Science and Economics Invention, 2018
Coffee is considered to be the second commodity marketed in the world after oil, due to the fact that it is the most consumed commercial infusion globally, the present investigation was designed with the objective of publicizing the Costs of Production and Profitability of Coffee Growing (Coffea spp) in the Amazon Region of Ecuador.
openaire   +2 more sources

INDICADORES ECONÓMICOS Y DE PRODUCCIÓN DE LA INDUSTRIA AZUCARERA EN TUCUMÁN, ARGENTINA, 1994-2017 [PDF]

Revista Industrial y Agrícola de Tucumán, 2019
La agroindustria azucarera es una de las principales actividades industriales en Tucumán. En 1992 la industria fue desregulada. Este estudio analiza cambios ocurridos en el sector azucarero en Tucumán luego de la desregulación desde 1994 hasta 2017. Para
Daniela Pérez, Virginia Paredes, Graciela Rodriguez, Jorge Scandaliaris   +3 more
doaj  

Ingeniería de menús basada en costos de producción, una herramienta para la rentabilidad de los restaurantes

Revista de Gastronomia y Cocina
Un reto en la gestión de restaurantes es evaluar y establecer costos de producción a los servicios. Se aplicó un diseño metodológico con enfoque mixto, en el enfoque cualitativo se usó la revisión de fuentes bibliográficas relacionadas con costos de ...
Gabriela Alejandra Espín Oleas, Iván Galarza, Francisco Xavier Guevara-Aroca   +2 more
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Relación entre los niveles de conocimiento y gestión de los costos de producción de los gerentes del sector gastronómico colombiano

Revista de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación, 2022
Esta investigación estudia la relación entre los niveles de conocimiento y gestión de los costos de producción con las variables socio-demográficas de los gerentes.
Rolando Eslava-Zapata, Edixón Chacón-Guerrero, Beatriz Parra-González   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source