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Long‐run Relationships Between World Vegetable Oil Prices [PDF]
In the international edible oil markets, there is believed to be high substitutability between vegetable oils and fats produced under different conditions.
In, Francis, Inder, Brett
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Agricultural management and environmental conditions influence the biochemical composition of food crops; however, the specific drivers of this variation remain insufficiently understood, despite their importance for climate change adaptation and human health.
Kat Morgan +24 more
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Predictive mechanistic modelling of vegetable oil autoxidation using a parametrised kinetic network
Current Research in Food ScienceDeveloping measures to prevent oxidation of vegetable oils currently requires cumbersome empirical testing of shelf-life. In order to rationalise the design of antioxidative strategies, we developed a predictive model that accounts for environmental ...
Vincent J.P. Boerkamp +4 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Crop wild relatives (CWR) in Zimbabwe are reservoirs of beneficial agronomic traits, yet they remain under‐documented and poorly conserved. This study developed Zimbabwe's first national CWR checklist based on a conceptual framework combining floristic, ecological and ethnobotanical data, revealing over 2700 taxa, with nearly 1000 edible species ...
Kudakwashe Mutasa +3 more
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Competitiveness and comparative advantage in Hungarian agriculture [PDF]
We examine the competitiveness of Hungarian agriculture in relation to that of the EU, based on four indices of revealed comparative advantage, for the period 1992 to 1998.
Imre Ferto, Lionel J. Hubbard
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Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the Chinese kimchi industry, manufacturers employ product names, photographs, and logistical strategies to promote their kimchi's “Koreanness.” So, what makes their kimchi “Korean,” and how does its Koreanness formulate kimchi's commodity value?
Heangjin Park
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Impacts of Soybean Imports on Indian Processors, Farmers, and Consumers [PDF]
India is one of the world’s largest importers of vegetable oils in part because of low domestic oilseed production, and tariff and nontariff barriers preventing oilseed imports.
Dohlman, Erik, Persaud, Suresh Chand
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.Across all population and sociodemographic groups in the Philippines, diets lacked diversity and intakes of fruit and vegetables were low. Under‐ and overnutrition are persisting challenges. Rigorous evidence from interventions to improve diet quality and fruit and vegetable intake in the Philippines is urgently needed.
Taryn J. Smith +5 more
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