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Examination of the New Tech Model as a Holistic Democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Using the Degrees of Democracy Framework (Woods & Woods, 2012), we examined eight New Tech (NT) high schools to determine the extent to which they demonstrated characteristics of holistic democracy.
Mosier, Gina   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Mindfulness, Democracy, and Education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this article, we explain how mindfulness can enhance a democratic way of being, connecting practices of awareness, reflection, dialog, and action to democratic citizenship and social arrangements.
LaPrad, James G, Hyde, Andrea Marie
core   +1 more source

The Multifunctionality and Territoriality of Peri-Urban Agri-Food Systems: The Metropolitan Region of Madrid, Spain

open access: yesLand, 2022
This paper addresses the Multifunctional and Territorialised Agri-Food Systems (MTLAFS) in areas of direct urban influence, focusing on the metropolitan region of Madrid.
Nieves López-Estébanez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Food safety in Finland 2021 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This report presents the 2021 results of regulatory control related to food safety, official controls and monitoring programmes on food and feed, as well as research and risk assessments.
Finnish Food Authority, Finnish Food Authority
core  

Anti-Democratic Tenets? Behavioural-Economic Imaginaries of a Future Food System

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2019
This article makes the central argument that basic democratic values such as justice, autonomy and participation run the risk of being neglected when designing ‘nudges’ (i.e., indirect suggestions to influence individual behaviour) for sustainable ...
Tobias Gumbert
doaj   +1 more source

Food Networks and Agroecology in the Province of Trento – Italy

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
As the hegemonic food system is unsustainable in socio-environmental terms, over the last few decades, the search for new forms of food supply has fostered alternative food networks (AFNs).
Marina Carrieri de Souza   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dachas and food democracy—What makes a (good) food citizen?

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
Against the backdrop of multiple crises within—and due to—the current industrial agri-food system, food is a highly political issue. As calls for food sovereignty grow louder and the war in Ukraine exposes the fragility of global food systems, the ...
Lilian Pungas
doaj   +1 more source

New England food policy councils: An assessment of organizational structure, policy priorities and public participation

open access: yesElementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 2020
Food policy councils (FPCs) are an increasingly common mechanism to improve participation in food system decision-making. Including individuals from under-represented groups can foster greater understanding of their needs and experiences with food system
Cathryn A. Porter, Catherine M. Ashcraft
doaj   +1 more source

Food Security Simulator – Nigeria

open access: yes, 2023
The Food Security Simulator is an innovative and easy-to-use, MS-Excel-based tool for assessing the potential short-term impacts of food price or household income shocks on food security and people’s diets.
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
core   +1 more source

Epigenetic silencing of the liver‐specific lncRNA LUNAR promotes liver cancer progression via NOTCH activation

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
LUNAR is a liver‐specific long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) that is highly expressed in normal liver but becomes epigenetically silenced in hepatocellular carcinoma through promoter hypermethylation. Loss of LUNAR is associated with NOTCH activation, epithelial–mesenchymal transition, and metastasis, whereas restoring LUNAR restrains metastatic progression ...
Se Ha Jang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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