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Productivity and Emissions in Italian Agriculture: A Farm‐Level Efficiency Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving the European Union climate‐neutrality objectives requires metrics that jointly assess farm productivity and greenhouse gas emissions at a granular level. However, harmonized evidence for benchmarking the productivity–emissions nexus of Italian farms remains limited.
Giulio Fusco, Yari Vecchio, Margherita Masi, Michele Borgia   +3 more
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Does Stakeholder Pressure Promote Green Innovations and Performance of Agribusiness Companies?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The sustainability of agribusiness companies is guided by multiple, sometimes paradoxical, interests. Green innovation is strategic for sustainable development; however, literature shows inconsistencies regarding its impact on environmental and economic‐financial performance.
Vanderlei dos Santos, Ilse Maria Beuren, Adrian Odelli, Rodrigo Rengel, Daniele Cristina Bernd   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards an Integrated Approach to Corporate Sustainability: The Role of Multi‐Stakeholder Value Co‐Creation in the Food and Beverage Sector

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The growing emphasis on sustainability has prompted companies to engage with stakeholders in addressing environmental and social challenges. This paper investigates how companies and stakeholders co‐create value through a collaborative and iterative process that facilitates the formulation and implementation of sustainable strategies.
Meryem Altaf, Shanta Davie, Nosheen Khan, Chen Su   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making Value‐Chain Risks Visible: Extending ENCORE for Systemic Insights

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Businesses in all sectors, including downstream segments, depend on biodiversity and the ecosystem services it sustains, yet firms also exert pressures that accelerate biodiversity loss. The latter generates material risks for both companies and their financial stakeholders.
Hjalmar Funke, Emmy Wassénius, Beatrice Crona, Christophe Christiaen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Sustainability Labelling on Consumers' Evaluation and Choice of Food Products: A Systematic Literature Review

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The last five years of research on sustainability labelling, reported in 175 journal articles, documents its effectiveness in increasing consumer choices of more sustainable food products. Some sustainability labels come out as stronger than others and their impact varies across products, countries, and individual consumers, depending on label
John Thøgersen, Lucía Romero‐Verdú, Anne O. Peschel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of the Spittlebug Mahanarva spectabilis on Signal Grass

The Scientific World Journal, 2012
The aim of this study was to determine the damage in Brachiaria ruziziensis (Germain & Edvard) according to the density of and exposure time to adults of Mahanarva spectabilis (Distant, 1909) (Hemiptera:Cercopidae). Each plant was kept with 0, 12, 18, or
Tiago Teixeira Resende, Alexander Machado Auad, Marcy das Graças Fonseca, Thiago Henrique dos Santos, Tamiris Moreira Vieira   +4 more
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The Impact of Glycation on Protein Digestibility

ChemFoodChem, EarlyView.
Schematic overview of how protein glycation affects digestibility and downstream nutritional consequences. Glycation‐derived structural modifications reduce protease accessibility, leading to limited hydrolysis and altered peptide generation. These changes decrease amino acid bioavailability and may subsequently contribute to microbiome alterations ...
Lea Hönemann, Simone Lipinski, Jana Raupbach   +2 more
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Gastrointestinal Nematodiasis in Dairy Cattle

Journal of Dairy Science, 1982
Infection with gastrointestinal nematode parasites appears to be widespread in the cattle population. The pathologically important genera of worms all belong to the family Trichostrongylidae. The most pathogenic species is Ostertagia ostertagi, which can produce profound changes in abomasal mucosa of affected animals. These nematodes show developmental
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Duct‐level evaluation of mammary gland health, somatic cell count and bacterial flora in lactating jennies

Equine Veterinary Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Assessing mammary gland health in donkeys is challenging due to the lack of species‐specific diagnostic criteria for subclinical mastitis. Although somatic cell count (SCC) is widely used in dairy ruminants, its diagnostic value in jennies remains unclear.
Anna Rita Attili, Elisa Tsaheylu Gallina, Chiara Storoni, Fulvio Laus, Francesca Romana Massacci, Marilena Bazzano, Anna Duranti, Yubao Li, Vincenzo Cuteri   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of Thermal Stress on Caprine Hepatocyte’s Antioxidant Enzymes Activity and TGF β Secretion In Vitro [PDF]

Journal of Stress Physiology & Biochemistry, 2014
Liver is involved in several vital functions such as synthesis, secretion, storage and metabolism of plasma proteins and in detoxifying functions. In the present study, hepatocytes were obtained by disaggregation of caprine liver caudate lobe.
Phad Ashok Vyankati, Anand Laxmi
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