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Political Shaping Of Transitions To Biofuels In Europe, Brazil And The USA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Faced with major challenges of global climate change, declining fossil fuel reserves, and competition between alternative uses of land, the transition to renewable transport fuels has been marked by new modes of political economic governance and the ...
Harvey, M, McMeekin, A
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Food justice: cultivating the field

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2018
This article provides an evidence-based review of the growing field of food justice, which seeks to understand how inequalities of race, class and gender are reproduced and contested within food systems. Analyzing a database of peer-reviewed articles and
Charlotte Glennie, Alison Hope Alkon
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Health-related behaviours and their relationship with self-rated health among Canadian adults

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2019
Background Self-rated health (SRH) is a commonly used survey measure as a substitute for a clinical measure of health, which has demonstrated validity and reliability in a variety of populations. The referents that individuals incorporate into their self-
Natalie D. Riediger   +2 more
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LAND OWNERSHIP PATTERNS AND THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF WOMEN: A STUDY OF OZALLA COMMUNITY, EDO STATE, NIGERIA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This study was carried out in Ozalla community, Edo State, Nigeria, which is an area that is rural and agrarian and where the level of literacy is quite low.
Iruonagbe, C. T.
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Introduction: food relocalisation and knowledge dynamics for sustainability in rural areas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The chapter presents the literature on local food and local knowledge and introduces the case studies analysed in the ...
FONTE, MARIA CATERINA
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Understanding collaboration in short food supply chains: a focus on collaborative relationships, interaction mechanisms and relational benefits

open access: yesAgricultural and Food Economics
The article provides an original conceptual framework to advance the knowledge of short food supply chains (SFSCs) collaboration by bridging supply chain management approaches with empirical evidence from the agri-food sector.
S. Stoeva   +6 more
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Slow food: revolution through consumption? Sociology of a reclassification of food goods

open access: yesSociologias, 2023
L'article vise à analyser le mouvement Slow Food en France, où il est actif depuis les années 2000. Né en Italie, Slow Food se définit et est perçu par la littérature sociologique comme un mouvement de consommateurs qui se propose une critique de la mondialisation, le souci de l’environnement et de la justice sociale.
openaire   +1 more source

Intoxication and US Culture: An Interview with Craig Reinarman

open access: yesNANO, 2016
Intoxication and US Culture: An Interview with Craig Reinarman. Ingrid Walker interviews Craig Reinarman, Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Ingrid Walker, Craig Reinarman
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Fearless: Melanie Meisenheimer

open access: yes, 2013
After returning from a year in France and Cameroon, Melanie Meisenheimer ‘14 is fearlessly taking on the responsibility of running The Gleaning Project for the South Central Community Action Programs (SCCAP) in Gettysburg this summer.
Meisenheimer, Melanie M.
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Dissemination and adoption of bottom-up agriculture to improve soil fertility in Africa: An interdisciplinary approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Soil fertility is at stake at a global scale, putting pressure on food security, poverty alleviation and environmental protection, under scenarios of climate change that in most cases aggravate the threat. In sub-Saharan Africa, a combination of depleted
Adamtey, Noah   +4 more
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