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Does Mobile Money Adoption Improve Dietary Quality? Assessing Household and Individual Level Impacts in Cameroon

open access: yesJournal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mobile money—a digital financial service—has proliferated in many developing countries. Owing to its ability to reduce transaction costs and allow even the poor to be financially included, it has been widely adopted. While a growing body of literature has examined its welfare effects, its effects on diet quality of households and individuals ...
Francis E. Ndip   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ch‐Ch‐Ch‐Ch‐Changes: The Impact of Supply Base Growth, Contraction, and Turnover on Firm Innovation

open access: yesJournal of Operations Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern supply chains are experiencing more disturbances due to regulatory shifts, rising sustainability standards, emerging or declining markets, and disruption to critical inputs. Some firms react by strengthening existing supplier partnerships to resist changes, while others reconfigure relationships with suppliers to embrace changes ...
Jordan M. Barker   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reshaping Labor Intermediation: An Integrated Workforce Management Strategy to Contrast Agricultural Workers' Exploitation in Italy

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Labor exploitation within agri‐food supply chains poses significant ethical and managerial challenges, particularly in Mediterranean contexts where irregular employment practices persist. This study investigates the case of NoCap, a third‐party ethical certification initiative operating in Italy that integrates social responsibility into ...
Claudio Mirabella   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of interstitial carbon dioxide on deoxynivalenol accumulation in stored wheat under varying Fusarium treatments and airtight storage conditions

open access: yesJournal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.
Abstract BACKGROUND Temperature and moisture content are recognized as the main factors responsible for mycotoxin production in stored grain, while the role of gaseous environment, particularly interstitial CO2, remains unexplored. This study investigated the relationship between interstitial CO2 concentration (generated metabolically in air spaces ...
Aanchal Pande   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multi‐Scale Drivers of Food‐Water‐Energy Related Ecosystem Services in the Context of Land Degradation: Insights From the Beijing‐Tianjin‐Hebei Agglomeration

open access: yesLand Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Land degradation poses significant challenges to maintaining food–water–energy (FWE) security, particularly in rapidly urbanizing regions. The ecosystem services (ES) related to FWE are critical for sustainable regional development. Yet, rapid urbanization in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region has altered land use and ecological patterns ...
Ke Yang, Qi Han, Dujuan Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Malnutrition prevalence at hospital admission and discharge based on the two‐step Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition: A prospective observational study in Malawian adult patients

open access: yesNutrition in Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective To assess the prevalence of malnutrition at hospital admission and discharge and examine factors associated with malnutrition at discharge among adult patients. Study Design A prospective observational study was conducted at two public referral hospitals in Malawi, targeting adult patients aged 18–65 years (n = 418).
Getrude Mphwanthe   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Re‐conceptualizing Parkinson's disease as a lifelong neurobiological trajectory: A framework for prevention

open access: yesNeuroprotection, EarlyView.
Three‐panel graphical abstract showing the Lifelong Neurobiological Trajectory framework for Parkinson's disease: (1) Vulnerability pathway (top, red) showing how early adversity → epigenetic dysregulation, neuroinflammation, and mitochondrial dysfunction → ↑ PD risk; (2) Lifespan timeline (middle, purple) spanning prenatal/infancy → childhood ...
Ayodeji Johnson Ajibare   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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