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Complexities of sustainable palm oil production by smallholders in sub‐Saharan Africa
Sustainable Development, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 529-541, February 2024.Abstract Sub‐Saharan Africa is increasingly viewed as an important area for oil palm cultivation and expansion. Palm oil is a commodity that can help developing countries like Cameroon attain their sustainable development goals (SDGs) targets through poverty alleviation (SDG 1) and by providing revenue to smallholder farmers to buy a variety of food ...
Lacour Mody Ayompe +7 more
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Jurnal Agro Industri PerkebunanIndonesia's palm oil industry has long faced criticism and denial, accusations that the palm oil industry is unsustainable, and smallholder plantations are seen as contributing to environmental risks.
Rizka Nurjanah +3 more
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Material deprivation as marker of health need
Statistica, 2013 A relationship between socio-economic status and health has been widely documented both by individual-level and ecological regression studies. We addressed the problem known in the literature as using a material deprivation index as predictor of health ...
Laura Grisotto +3 more
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The ISO/ISPO classification of congenital limb deficiency [PDF]
Prosthetics & Orthotics International, 1991 This classification originally produced by the ISPO "Kay" Committee in 1973, has now with minor modifications, become an International Standard (ISO 8548-1: 1989). It is limited to those deficiencies which are failures of formation and describes them on anatomical and radiological bases only.
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The sustainability of palm oil farming by certified independent smallholders in Jambi
Frontiers in SustainabilityIntroductionPalm oil plantation certification is important in promoting sustainable practices, but its implementation among independent smallholders often faces obstacles. Suboptimal readiness, limited insight, knowledge, human resources, and audit costs
Fuad Muchlis +5 more
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The International Journal of Biological Markers, 2015 Background Harmonization of fecal immunochemical tests for hemoglobin (FIT-Hb) is crucial to compare clinical outcomes in screening programs. The lack of reference materials and standard procedures does not allow the use of usual protocols to compare ...
Tiziana Rubeca +4 more
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Multiple testing in disease mapping and descriptive epidemiology
Geospatial Health, 2010 The problem of multiple testing is rarely addressed in disease mapping or descriptive epidemiology. This issue is relevant when a large number of small areas or diseases are analysed.
Dolores Catelan, Annibale Biggeri
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The International Journal of Biological Markers, 2012 Several immunological fecal occult blood tests (FOBT) are currently available for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening. We compared the HM Jack (Jack) (Kiowa, Japan), with the OC-Hemodia (OC) (Eiken, Japan) in use in the Florence screening program.
Tiziana Rubeca +3 more
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Geospatial Health, 2008 In Environmental Epidemiology, long lists of relative risk estimates from exposed populations are compared to a reference to scrutinize the dataset for extremes.
Dolores Catelan, Annibale Biggeri
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