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Is quinoa‐farming sustainable in marginal environments? Social, economical and environmental aspects
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.Abstract Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) is an Andean grain crop introduced as a novel crop to many parts of the world in recent years. Recognized for nutritious seeds and high abiotic stress tolerance, it has been promoted as an element of climate‐resilient agriculture, particularly in marginal environments.
Anna Tabea Mengen +5 more
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Focaal, 2016 Since the 1980s globalization has taken on increasingly neoliberalizing forms in the form of commoditization of objects, resources, or even human bodies, their reduction to financial values, and their enclosure or other forms of dispossession. “After dispossession” provides ethnographic accounts of the diverse ways to deal with dispossessions by ...
Salemink, Oscar, Rasmussen, Mattias Borg
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Britain and genocide: historical and contemporary parameters of national responsibility [PDF]
, 2011 This article (originally given as the Annual War Studies Lecture at King's College, London, on 25 January 2010) challenges the assumption that Britain's relationship to genocide is constituted by its `vigilance towards the genocide of others.
Shaw, Martin
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A Framework for Understanding and Evaluating Localization: The Case of HelpAge International
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many transnational non‐governmental organizations (TNGOs) are reevaluating their organizational forms and norms as they pursue localization. Localization itself is a contested and multifaceted concept, however, complicating the design, implementation, and evaluation of localization efforts.
Hans Peter Schmitz, George E. Mitchell
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Paisajes del despojo cotidiano: acaparamiento de tierra y agua en Montes de María, Colombia
Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2015 The phenomena of landgrabbing and monopolizing of water sources have gained increasing attention in recent years. Nevertheless, very few studies have dealt with the problem of the grabbing and concentration of resources from an ethnographic perspective ...
Diana Ojeda +4 more
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Mitigating Health Disparities Through Empathetic Policymaking During Times of Crisis
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic greatly exacerbated the existing disparities and inequities in health and healthcare among historically marginalized populations. Today, these impacts still echo. These persistent structured inequities erode the public's trust in government, lead to failure in public policies, and result in worse health consequences ...
Yali Pang +2 more
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, 2014 This Article responds to the alarm recently sounded by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists over “birth control sabotage”—the “active interference [by one partner] with [the other] partner’s contraceptive methods in an attempt to ...
Plunkett, Leah A.
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Conservation performance payments are becoming an increasingly popular instrument to tackle human–wildlife conflicts. In Sweden, Sámi communities practicing reindeer husbandry receive performance payments as compensation for reindeer losses caused by lynxes and wolverines.
Josef Kaiser +3 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract There is rising recognition of resource‐use rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) within wildlife conservation. Historically, sociocultural institutions ensured wildlife sustainability in many IPLC areas. However, the future viability of such institutions is uncertain as IPLCs change in response to external pressures and ...
Sahil Nijhawan +5 more
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L’expérimental comme fidélité au spectre : Quilt de Nicholas Royle
Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2018 This article offers a reading of the euphemised forms of experimentation hosted by the contemporary novel through the category of afterwardsness or deferred action, through which anterior forms of experimentation can be envisaged.
Jean-Michel Ganteau
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