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Water scarcity and oil palm expansion: social views and environmental processes
Ecology and Society, 2016 Conversions of natural ecosystems, e.g., from rain forests to managed plantations, result in significant changes in the hydrological cycle including periodic water scarcity. In Indonesia, large areas of forest were lost and extensive oil palm plantations
Jennifer Merten +15 more
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Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers in coastal Cameroon face accelerating soil degradation and climate variability. However, the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) remains uneven. This study examines how information behavior and motivational objectives shape SAP adoption in the Tiko municipality using a cross‐sectional survey of 122 ...
Ayat Ullah +5 more
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Sweet Sap from Palms, a Source of Beverages, Alcohol, Vinegar, Syrup, and Sugar
Vieraea Folia scientiarum biologicarum canariensium, 2013 The use of palms as a source of sweet sap is ancient and widespread throughout the palm-growing regions of Africa, Asia and the Americas. Sweet sap is consumed fresh, processed into syrup or sugar, or fermented into alcohol or vinegar. We review 40 species of palms and their tapping methods, which may be either destructive or nondestructive ...
Javier Francisco Ortega, Scott Zona
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Overharvesting of wild edible plants poses a growing threat to plant populations worldwide, particularly for slow‐growing species with limited regeneration. We quantified fruit extraction from the third‐largest known population of Jubaea chilensis—an endangered palm endemic to Chile—modeled the critical harvest threshold, and assessed consumer ...
Sebastián Cordero +7 more
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“Imbibing the lesson of defiance”: oil palms and alcohol in Colonial Ghana, 1900–40
, 2018 This article examines a controversy over oil palm landscapes in colonial West Africa. Oil palms provide two important food products, palm oil and palm kernels, but they are also tapped for palm wine, an alcoholic drink produced from the sap of the tree ...
Robins, Jonathan E., Jonathan Robins
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Growth of trees and microclimates in a gap dependent forest in Central Amazonia
Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Naturais, 2006 Forest inventory, stem core sampling, and meteorological observations were carried out in a dense tropical forest in Novo Aripuanã, Amazonas. In the research quadrat (1.9 ha), 210 woody species belonging to over 38 botanical families, and 14 palm species
Akio Tsuchiya +3 more
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Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper explores the evolving relationship between decarbonization strategies, environmental performance within ESG frameworks, and the economic performance of multinational companies in the context of increasing environmental and geopolitical uncertainty.
Maurizio Pompella, Lorenzo Costantino
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Investigation of chemical and physical properties of southwestern Wisconsin maple syrup [PDF]
, 2006 Includes bibliographical ...
Takano, Hiroyuki, Takano, Hiroyuki.
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Palm Sap Sources, Characteristics, and Utilization in Indonesia
, 2020 Sap from various species palm trees in which known as neera generally produced by traditional technology in Indonesia. There are 5 well known palm species that produce Neera in Indonesia such as arenga palm, coconut tree, doub palm, nipa palm and palm ...
Mochamad Adha Firdaus +3 more
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The predatory behavior of ants: an impressive panoply of morphological adaptations
Insect Science, EarlyView.This review focuses on predation in ants, showing the wide diversity of cases from solitary foraging to group hunting tactics, as well as the evolution of mandible shape frequently adapted to capture specific prey. Although most ants are generalist feeders, finding their sugary substances directly on plants or indirectly via sap‐sucking insects, some ...
Alain Dejean +6 more
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