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Las reformas cubanas de los noventa ¿alternativa a la hegemonía neoliberal en América Latina? Promesas y realidad [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
16 p., tablas -- Post-print del artículo publicado en Society and Natural Resources. Versión revisada y corregida.Because of its potential role in providing ecosystem services and private benefits (food security), the concern about the loss of ...
Aceituno Mata, Laura   +9 more
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Evaluation of plant species in home gardens: A case study of Batumi city (Adjara)

open access: yesTurkish Journal of Forestry, 2017
The home vegetation features in urban landscapes play an important role as indicators of urban biodiversity potential. They are also ornamental resources in the context of landscape appreciation for the human environment.
Hilal Surat, Yasin Kültiğin Yaman
doaj   +1 more source

Inside out: men on the Home Front [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper examines the representation of men as domestic experts in British lifestyle television programmes. It considers contemporary representations of the home, locating these in relation to changes in British primetime programming where a movement ...
Attwood, F.
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DEFINING INDICATORS FOR INVESTIGATING TRADITIONAL HOME-GARDENS IN ROMANIA [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2020
Home-gardens are at grounding the definition of the cultural rural universe all over the world and are paving for centuries our entire xistence as human civilizations.
Maria-Mihaela ANTOFIE
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Maize Germplasm Conservation in Southern California's Urban Gardens: Introduced Diversity Beyond ex situ and in situ Management. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Contemporary germplasm conservation studies largely focus on ex situ and in situ management of diversity within centers of genetic diversity. Transnational migrants who transport and introduce landraces to new locations may catalyze a third type of ...
Ellstrand, Norman C, Heraty, Joanne M
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Shaping garden landscape with medicinal plants by migrant communities in the Atlantic Forest, Argentina

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2023
Migrants’ home gardens may be created from elements of both old and new landscapes. We assume that medicinal plant assemblages in migrants’ gardens are shaped by plant diversity and availability, therapeutic needs, and heritagization processes.
Monika Kujawska   +1 more
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Can home gardening significantly reduce food insecurity in South Africa during times of economic distress?

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Science, 2021
The novel coronavirus has revealed major impediments in South African food distribution. Existing challenges will be greatly exacerbated by an economic recession projected to be worse than the Great Depression.
Grant Carstens   +2 more
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Productivity, resource efficiency and financial savings: An investigation of the current capabilities and potential of South Australian home food gardens.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
As the dominant form of urban agriculture (UA) in Australia, existing home food gardens potentially represent a significant resource in the context of future urban food security and sustainability. However, a severe lack of in-field data has hindered our
Georgia Csortan   +2 more
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Risk Assessment in Specialised Home gardens of Kerala

open access: yesJournal of Extension Education, 2018
Home gardens have emerged as the best agricultural production system in Kerala due to limiting land availability and the shrinking operational land unit.
Sreelakshmi C
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Food plants in home gardens of the Middle Magdalena basin of Colombia

open access: yesCaldasia, 2017
Home gardens are important reservoirs of agricultural diversity essential to support food security in rural communities. In this paper, we describe the richness and composition of species and varieties of plants used for food in home gardens of the ...
Diana Villa, Néstor García
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