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Uncovering the scaling of innovations developed by grassroots entrepreneurs in low-income settings
Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toward Poverty Reduction, 2019 Low-income entrepreneurs operating in resource-scarce settings are typically referred to as subsistence entrepreneurs – informal, operating on a small scale, and selling products developed and produced by others.
Marleen Wierenga
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In response to growing global challenges, this study explores how social entrepreneurship within the Edible City movement contributes to building resilient, sustainable, and equitable urban food systems. Drawing on semistructured interviews with over 70 stakeholders across five cities—Berlin, Andernach, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Havana—we ...
Ina Säumel +6 more
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A community based PFAS phytoremediation project at the former Loring Airforce Base
iScience, 2021 Sara L. Nason +5 more
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Frontiers in Public HealthNeocolonialism has led to an imbalance in the production of knowledge and a clunky imposition of frameworks and models of practice that do not meet the needs of local communities. In contrast they can serve the central function of colonialism by draining
Nadia Taysir Dabbagh
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A case for Fiji’s grassroots citizenry and media to be better informed, engaged for democracy
Pacific Journalism Review, 2010 Democracy in Fiji has been top-down where primarily the middle class and the wealthy elite have understood its true merits and values. Politicians, professionals, academics and civil society organisations, rather than the grassroots population, have been
Mosmi Bhim
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Grassroots Distributed Systems: Concept, Examples, Implementation and Applications
arXiv.org, 2023 E. Shapiro
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid increasing environmental and economic pressures, Africa's transition to a circular economy (CE) presents a vital pathway to inclusive, low‐carbon development. Yet, how digital transformation, informal innovation, and science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy readiness shape CE outcomes remains underexplored.
Emmanuel K. Manu +2 more
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Frontiers in Public HealthAcross West Virginia, tobacco use continues to be a significant public health challenge. Specifically, tobacco use is linked to high poverty across the state and disproportionately affects African Americans.
Donald Reed +5 more
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Default Effect in ESG Investment: When a Recommendation Goes a Long Way
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Individual investors display a positive attitude toward ESG investments but typically fail to act upon it. We report results from a preregistered online experiment testing a default option on 1050 US investors examining the mechanisms driving the effectiveness of default options in promoting ESG investments.
Sai Sravanthi Ramadugula +2 more
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Environmental Research Letters, 2020 An estimated 30%–50% of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted each year. These global food loss and waste (FLW) annually generate 4.4 Gt CO _2 -eq, or about 8% of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and thus present a ...
Nikravech Mariam +4 more
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