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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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Reforms in Indian agro-processing and agriculture sectors in the context of unilateral and multilateral trade agreements [PDF]
In this paper, we explore the potential impacts of trade and investment-related policy reforms on India's agro-processing sector. We consider the direct effects of policy reforms within the processing sector, and the indirect effects on agro-processing ...
A. Ganesh-Kumar +2 more
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Groundnut policies, global trade dynamics, and the impact of trade liberalization [PDF]
Groundnut products are of central economic importance to millions of smallholders in Africa, India, and Southern China. The products generate 60 percent of rural cash income and account for about 70 percent of the rural labor force in Senegal and The ...
Beghin, John +2 more
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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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Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract ‘I have to share a bathroom’, I had so often murmured, almost with shame, as if I personally had been found unworthy of a bathroom of my own. Barbara Pym, Excellent Women (1952) For a single woman of a certain age, living alone in postwar London, austerity was more than a set of political and economic imperatives.
Charlotte Charteris
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How important is a regional free trade area for Southern Africa?: Potential impacts and structural constraints [PDF]
"We develop a detailed trade analysis to assess the potential welfare impacts of a free trade agreement (FTA) on the agricultural sector of southern African countries and to determine opportunities and challenges faced by the region as a consequence of ...
Bahta, Yonas +2 more
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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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Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.Coverage of fortifiable oil, salt, and wheat flour by wealth quintiles. ABSTRACT Large‐scale food fortification (LSFF) is an effective public health measure because it may reach a large number of populations at risk using current food delivery systems.
Aregash Samuel +20 more
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Intra-National Regional Heterogeneity in International Trade [PDF]
We present a two-country model with explicit incorporation of two regions in the home country and one region in a foreign country. Each region consists of two types of workers: skilled workers, freely mobile across domestic regions, are required to set ...
Kyoko Hirose, Yushi Yoshida
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Trans unsaturated fatty acids : a study of methodology and levels in New Zealand food fats including milkfat : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Science in Biochemistry at Massey University, New Zealand [PDF]
, 1997 Trans fatty acids (TFAs) occur naturally in small amounts in foods such as milk, butter and tallow as a result of biohydrogenation by ruminant gut microflora. They are formed in much larger quantities during chemical hydrogenation of fats and oils.
Fong, Bertram Ian Yin
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