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Aligning Transnational due Diligence: The EU Deforestation Regulation and Brazil's Fragmented Beef Governance

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transnational due diligence regulations, such as the European Union Regulation on Deforestation‐Free Products (EUDR), are reshaping sustainability governance by transforming voluntary norms into binding global rules. Yet, their effectiveness depends on how well they align with domestic governance systems and on the power asymmetries that ...
John James Loomis, Khalid Nadvi, José Antônio Puppim de Oliveira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Greenhouse gas emissions from ditches in oil palm plantations on tropical peatlands in Malaysia. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Kasak K, Dronova I, Soosaar K, Melling L, Xhuan WG, Sangok F, Ranniku R, Villa JA, Bansal S, Peacock M, Mander Ü.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Global habitat suitability and invasion risk of melon thrips

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
Habitat suitability of Thrips palmi worldwide was predicted using the MaxEnt model. Precipitation of the driest month, precipitation of the wettest month and annual mean temperature were identified as the key climatic drivers influencing its distribution.
Owusu Fordjour Aidoo, Rosina Kyerematen, Emmanuel Twum, Frederick Leo Sossah, Gengping Zhu, David W. Crowder   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polymorph II Cellulose Nanocrystals Derived from Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunches for High-Efficiency COD Removal in Industrial Wastewater. [PDF]

Nanomaterials (Basel)
Pomalaya-Velasco J, Bendezú-Roca Y, Canchanya-Huaman Y, Ramos-Guivar JA.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The economic foundations of powersharing: Evidence from Africa

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract How—and with whom—do rulers share power? Existing research focuses on the strategic logic of powersharing. In this paper, we analyze its economic foundations. Powersharing is modeled as a subnational fiscal contract, in which rulers allocate political representation based on constituencies’ revenue potential. Empirically, we combine historical
Yannick I. Pengl, Philip Roessler
wiley   +1 more source

Hybrid PVA-alginate immobilization enables configuration-dependent biohydrogen production from Napier grass and oil palm fronds with superior multi-cycle stability. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Wongfaed N, Sittijunda S, Reungsang A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Common Food Emulsifiers Impair Epithelial Barrier Integrity and Trigger Pro‐Inflammatory Responses and IgE Production

Allergy, EarlyView.
Soy lecithin and DATEM, the two commonly used food emulsifiers introduced into many foods including peanut butter and puffed bread, in the 2000s, impair intestinal epithelial barrier integrity in human gut‐on‐a‐chip and induced pluripotent stem cell colon organoid models.
Duygu Yazici, Yuka Hayashi, Yagiz Pat, Jennifer Hotie, Mehmet Ali Balci, Sena Ardicli, Juan Felipe Lopez, Ozge Ardicli, Bingjie Zhao, Angel Maldonado, Can Zeyneloglu, Kenji Matsumoto, Manru Li, Beate Rückhert, Lihong Chang, Ismail Ogulur, Vahap Eldem, Raja Dhir, Mubeccel Akdis, Kari Nadeau, Oscar Palomares, Hideaki Morita, Cezmi A. Akdis   +22 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hormonal and Transcriptomic Insights into Inflorescence Stalk Elongation in Oil Palm. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Shi P, Htwe YM, Zhang D, Li Z, Yu Q, He X, Yang J, Wang Y.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante, Armel Lekeufack, Nina Tamara Barbosa Ponce, Roger Amos Kañaa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Oil Palm Shell-Derived Activated Carbon: Adsorption Kinetics, Thermodynamics, and Interaction Mechanism for Lufenuron 50-EC Pesticide. [PDF]

ACS Omega
Nuñez-Vargas D, Barraza-Burgos J, Guerrero-Perez J, Diaz L, Dalai AK, Borugadda VB.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source