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Grassroots innovation and social innovation in perspective

Frontiers in Sociology, 2023
This article provides a comprehensive review of social innovation and grassroots innovation over the last 5 years, offering a detailed analysis of both concepts.
Karina Maldonado-Mariscal
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Expression Elements Derived From Plant Sequences Provide Effective Gene Expression Regulation and New Opportunities for Plant Biotechnology Traits

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Plant biotechnology traits provide a means to increase crop yields, manage weeds and pests, and sustainably contribute to addressing the needs of a growing population.
Jennifer P. C. To, Jennifer P. C. To, Jennifer P. C. To, Ian W. Davis, Ian W. Davis, Ian W. Davis, Matthew S. Marengo, Matthew S. Marengo, Matthew S. Marengo, Aabid Shariff, Aabid Shariff, Aabid Shariff, Catherine Baublite, Keith Decker, Rafaelo M. Galvão, Rafaelo M. Galvão, Rafaelo M. Galvão, Zhihuan Gao, Zhihuan Gao, Zhihuan Gao, Olivia Haragutchi, Olivia Haragutchi, Olivia Haragutchi, Jee W. Jung, Jee W. Jung, Jee W. Jung, Jee W. Jung, Hong Li, Brent O'Brien, Brent O'Brien, Brent O'Brien, Anagha Sant, Tedd D. Elich, Tedd D. Elich, Tedd D. Elich   +34 more
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The Land Is Ours: Bottom-Up Strategies to Secure Rural Women's Access, Control and Rights to Land in Kenya, Mozambique, Senegal and Malawi

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021
Despite their key role in agriculture, in many African regions, women do not have equal access to or control and ownership over land and natural resources as men.
Romy Santpoort, Griet Steel, Andrew Mkandawire, Clemente Ntauazi, El Hadji Faye, Fridah Githuku   +5 more
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Grassroots struggles challenging housing financialization in Spain

Housing Studies, 2022
Spain was one of the most severely hit countries by the 2008 global financial crisis. More than ten years after, the belated economic recovery has hardly changed the roots of that crisis, especially the financialization of the real estate sector ...
Miguel A. Martínez, Javier Gil
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Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons

Journal of Political Ecology, 2022
In this article, by drawing on empirical evidence from twelve case studies from nine countries from across the Global South and North, we ask how radical grassroots social innovations that are part of social movements and struggles can offer pathways for
Elia Apostolopoulou, D. Bormpoudakis, Alexandros Chatzipavlidis, J. A. Cortés Vázquez, Ioana Florea, M. Gearey, Julyan Levy, J. Loginova, J. Ordner, Tristan Partridge, Alejandra Pizarro, Hannibal Rhoades, Kate Symons, C. Veríssimo, N. Wahby   +14 more
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GR и лоббизм: инфлюенс-менеджмент, медиакоммуникации, специальные события

Знак: проблемное поле медиаобразования, 2021
Автор рассматривает теоретические подходы к современному пониманию GR и лоббизма и констатирует, что, при их значительной изученности, существует пробел в освоении прикладных способов применения данных технологий. В статье приоритетное внимание уделяется
Александр Чумиков
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Innovation and Optimization Logic of Grassroots Digital Governance in China under Digital Empowerment and Digital Sustainability

Sustainability, 2022
In the digital age, digital resources are naturally sustainable, and they have become the basic technologies and platforms by which to maintain the sustainable development of the social economy.
Jun-jiao Li, Guohui Zhan, Xin Dai, Mengyang Qi, B. Liu   +4 more
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Grassroots innovation for the pluriverse: evidence from Zapatismo and autonomous Zapatista education

Sustainability Science, 2022
The social and environmental failure of successive Western development models imposed on the global South has led local communities to pursue alternatives to development. Such alternatives seek radical societal transformations that require the production
Erandi Maldonado-Villalpando, J. Paneque-Gálvez, F. Demaria, Brian M. Napoletano   +3 more
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Towards Territorially Embedded, Equitable and Resilient Food Systems? Insights from Grassroots Responses to COVID-19 in Italy and the City Region of Rome

Sustainability, 2021
The negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have further exposed and exacerbated the structural weaknesses and inequalities embedded in the global industrial agri-food system.
Simona Zollet, L. Colombo, Paola De Meo, D. Marino, Steven R. McGreevy, N. Mckeon, Simona Tarra   +6 more
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Pursuing Frugal Innovation for Sustainability at the Grassroots Level

Management and Organization Review, 2021
Firms are often criticized for their reluctance to embrace sustainability in their business strategies. Frugal innovation is a recent concept that represents a new way for firms to serve underserved customers in developing countries while also promoting ...
Mokter Hossain, J. Levänen, Marleen Wierenga   +2 more
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