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The Role of Coordination Mechanisms and Transaction Costs Promoting Sustainability Performance in Agri‐Food Supply Chains: Evidence From Ecuador

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting the spiritual well-being of children and young people with special needs

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2003
Last year Camphill-Rudolf Steiner-Schools in Aberdeen hosted a conference entitled Promoting the Spiritual Well-being of Children and Young People with Special Needs: an Inclusive Vision.
Robin Jackson, Angelika Monteux
doaj   +1 more source

Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

Scotland's looked after children: best educated in class, or do they need a 'hole in the wall'?

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2018
How can looked after children with special educational needs be supported outside the school day? Research suggests a significantly high proportion of looked after children have special educational needs.
Paul Lee Alan
doaj   +1 more source

Is Youth's Engagement in Agribusiness an Opportunity or a Necessity? A Closer Look at the Situation in South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hard to teach, hard to reach, hard to justify: the challenge of participatory research with vulnerable young people

open access: yesEducational Futures, 2011
The poor outcomes for looked after children (LAC) are well-documented: for example, a young person from a care background is 10 times more likely to be given a statement of special education need (SEN) than their peers (DCSF, 2009).
Catherine Lamond
doaj  

Young People’s Voice: The First Visiting Advocacy Project in Italian Residential Care for Children

open access: yesSTEPP: Socialinė Teorija, Empirija, Politika ir Praktika, 2017
This article presents the research of the project Giving Young People a Voice: Advocacy in Children’s Homes, set up as a result of the interest of a nonprofit organization working with looked-after children, with an aim to improve advocacy as a listening
Valentina Calcaterra   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Certifications in Improving Household Food Security Among Peruvian Farmers

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving global food security requires sustainable transformations in agri‐food systems. Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) such as Organic and Fairtrade aim to internalize certain social and environmental costs while promoting more equitable value distribution, improved market access, and sustainable production practices.
Lisa‐Marie Schulte, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

The University of Strathclyde summer experience: the impact of a widening access residential summer programme for children in care

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2013
The Innovative Routes to Learning (IRL) unit at the University of Strathclyde ran a three-day on-campus residential programme for children from a looked after (care) background from three Glasgow City Council schools during summer 2013, designed to build
Iain Mitchell
doaj   +1 more source

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