Chapter 5: Food Security [PDF]
The current food system (production, transport, processing, packaging, storage, retail, consumption, loss and waste) feeds the great majority of world population and supports the livelihoods of over 1 billion people.
Barioni, Luis G. +32 more
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Characterisation framework of key policy, regulatory and governance dynamics and impacts upon European food value chains: Fairer trading practices, food integrity, and sustainability collaborations. : VALUMICS project “Understanding Food Value Chains and Network Dynamics” funded by EU Horizon 2020 G.A. No 727243. Deliverable D3.3 [PDF]
, 2019 The report provides a framework that categorises the different European Union (EU) policies, laws and governance actions identified as impacting upon food value chains in the defined areas of: fairer trading practices, food integrity (food safety and ...
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Services and sustainable development : a conceptual approach [PDF]
, 2016 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.For the vast majority of countries, regardless of developmental status, services make a critical contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP), are an ...
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Should we reconsider competition in residential electricity supply? Survey results in North Carolina [PDF]
Retail competition has been introduced in many states as part of electricity industry deregulation. Following problems in the electricity market in California in 2000/01 many states, including NC, put deregulation plans on hold.
Peter A. Groothuis, Tanga M. McDaniel
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Sustainability in the Age of Platforms. CEPS Special Report. June 2019 [PDF]
, 2019 Over the past few decades, new digital platforms such as China’s Alibaba, Japan’s Rakuten and the U.S.’s eBay have grown from startups into multinational giants.
Baiocco, Sara +8 more
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The informal sector and universal health coverage: crucial considerations [PDF]
, 2019 http://www.bu.edu/pardee/publications-library/issues-in-brief/issues-in-brief-no-37-june-2019/Published ...
Were, Lawrence P.O.
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Unraveling the Origins of EU Countries Productivity Growth - Evidence on R&D and Competition from Cross-Country Industry Analysis [PDF]
Over the last two decades EU countries experienced diverging productivity growthdevelopments. By examining the sources of EU countries growth drivers on the sectorallevel, the paper takes a new look on the influence of innovations.
Thomas Strobel
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spotlight europe, August 2015: Sustainable Development Goals: Are the rich countries ready? [PDF]
, 2015 The Millennium Development Goals have led to tangible progress in many developing countries. Once adopted, the United Nations' new global Sustainable Development Goals will additionally require industrialized countries to implement such standards ...
Kroll, Christian
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2016 Annual Impact Investor Survey [PDF]
, 2016 The sixth edition of the Annual Impact Investor Survey is based on an analysis of the activities of 158 of the world's leading impact investing organizations, including fund managers, foundations, banks, development finance institutions, family offices ...
Abhilash Mudaliar +2 more
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ConnectinGEO dissemination and exploitation plan [PDF]
, 2017 EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation (SC5-18a-2014 - H2020)H2020 Project Nr: 641538. Project start date: 01 Feb 2015Project title: Coordinating an Observation Network of Networks EnCompassing saTellite and IN-situ to fill the Gaps in European
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