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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Role of MOH as a grassroots public health manager in preparedness and response for COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka

open access: yesAIMS Public Health, 2020
Pandemic transmission of COVID-19 virus warranted activation of public health responses in all countries. Public health unit system of Sri Lanka (also known as the Medical Officer of Health unit system) managed by a medical doctor with special training ...
Pamila Sadeeka Adikari   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Overview of Australian Indigenous health status 2014 [PDF]

open access: yes
This Overview of Australian Indigenous health status provides information about: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations; the context of Indigenous health; various measures of population health status; selected health conditions; and health ...
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
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Constraints in the adoption of Indigenous farming practices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Indigenous farming is a production system, based on renewal of ecological processes and strengthening of ecological functions of farm ecosystem to produce safe, healthy and sustainable food. Indigenous agriculture is being adopted by the farmers of Kolli
Kanagasabapathi, K, Sakthivel, V
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Regional Differences in U.S. Consumer Preferences for Native Woody Shrubs With Varying Aesthetic Characteristics

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native plants offer a variety of aesthetic (e.g., fall colour, fruit, flowers) and functional benefits (e.g., pollinator friendly, wildlife friendly, water management). How these benefits influence consumer choice and perceived value of native versus introduced plants is not well understood.
Alicia Rihn   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Indigenous as Alien

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
Immigration law, as it is taught, studied, and researched in the United States, imagines away the fact of preexisting indigenous peoples. Why is this the case? I argue, first, that this elision reflects and reproduces how the field of immigration law narrates its sense of space, time, and national membership.
openaire   +3 more sources

Protecting the Right to Exist as a People: Intellectual Property as a Means to Protect Traditional Knowledge and Indigenous Culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The dominant Western culture has created a legal system premised upon an individualistic and commercial foundation for intellectual property rights (IPR).
Collin, Sean   +2 more
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indigenous Peoples and environmental research and monitoring within the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin: A systematic map

open access: yesEcological Solutions and Evidence
The North American Great Lakes basin faces management challenges worsened by climate change, invasive species and contaminants. Addressing these issues requires a collective approach, drawing on a diversity of perspectives and voices, including that of ...
Emma Pirie   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Non-Indigenous Academic and Indigenous Autonomy

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2000
One of the many fascinating problems raised in recent issues of the Australian Journal of Indigenous Education (AJIE)is that of Indigenous autonomy in education. Although opinions differed about the extent to which Indigenous people currently exercise educational autonomy in various situations, there was ...
openaire   +3 more sources

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