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Smallholder compliance with private standard certification: the case of GlobalGAP adoption by mango producers in Peru [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The prevalence of food quality standards in international trade is constantly increasing and has a growing influence on developing countries. A wide range of literature in development economics has focused on the debate of whether international standards
Lemeilleur, Sylvaine
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Understanding Supply Chain Knowledge Mobilization Barriers From the Middle‐Range Perspective: An Empirical Investigation of Argentina's Agri‐Food Industry

open access: yesJournal of Business Logistics, Volume 46, Issue 2, April 2025.
ABSTRACT Despite considerable research attention to supply chain knowledge mobilization (KMob) barriers, understanding of why, how, and when they emerge in practice remains limited. We address this knowledge deficit by using middle‐range theory (MRT) as a theoretical lens to examine supply chain KMob barriers in their naturally occurring environment ...
Guoqing Zhao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anticoagulants for the Control of the Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus)

open access: yesZoonoses and Public Health, Volume 72, Issue 2, Page 101-116, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Background In Latin America, there is a high incidence of vampire bat‐transmitted rabies in cattle causing increased mortality of livestock, which heavily impacts the agricultural sector. Anticoagulants‐based control methods for the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) have been employed continuously since the 1970s with various methods of ...
Laura Ávila‐Vargas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two new genera of neotropical Deltocephalinae (Insecta: Homoptera: Cicadellidae) related to Alaca Oman

open access: yesRevista Peruana de Biología, 2014
Two new genera of Neotropical Deltocephalinae (Insecta: Homoptera: Cicadellidae) related to Alaca Oman: Paralaca gen. n. and Adlaca gen. n., and two new species, P. sordida and A.
Pedro Lozada
doaj   +1 more source

Automatic Livestock Waterer Prototype Based on IoT Using a Microcontroller Board

open access: yesJournal of Engineering, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Water control in a livestock waterer is a crucial task to keep the animals properly hydrated and thus ensure milk production and weight gain. However, when not done correctly, it can lead to flooding of the pen, influx of diseases, or, on the other hand, it can result in water scarcity, causing poor hydration that may lead to the animal′s death if ...
Gisella Luisa Elena Maquen-Niño   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contaminantes orgánicos persistentes: Impactos y medidas de control

open access: yesManglar
Los contaminantes orgánicos persistentes (COP) representan un problema ambiental significativo debido a su toxicidad, con una alta capacidad para persistir en el entorno, resistencia a los métodos de degradación convencionales, la capacidad de ...
Cesar R. Castro López   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Overcoming constraints to agricultural innovation through the market: insights from the Peruvian Andes [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper discusses possible ways to overcome the situation of physical isolation and the multiple failures that pervade Andean villages. Specifically, it studies a training program developed by a Peruvian NGO, which aims at triggering the development ...
Demont, Timothée
core   +4 more sources

Mapping opportunities and barriers for coexistence between people and pumas in the Argentine Dry Chaco

open access: yesDiversity and Distributions, Volume 30, Issue 10, October 2024.
Abstract Aim The persistence of large carnivore populations depends on their survival outside protected areas, where they often impact local livelihoods through livestock depredation. Understanding the impacts of human behaviour on large carnivores in shared landscapes is thus important but is often overlooked in habitat assessments or conservation ...
A. Sofía Nanni   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Challenges in Latin America for the Next Decade [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
A decade after a 1999 World Bank-sponsored meeting of Latin American water and sanitation experts, there has been progress in rural sanitation in that region.
Glenn Pearce-Oroz
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Asian Soybean Rust: Incidence, Severity, and Morphological Characterization of Phakopsora pachyrhizi (Uredinia and Telia) in Argentina [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Asian soybean rust (ASR), caused by Phakopsora pachyrhizi, is the most destructive disease of soybean (Glycine max) in many areas of the world. ASR was first detected in Argentina during 2002 in a limited area in the northern region of the country (2 ...
Carmona, Marcelo Anibal   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

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