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Microscopic Malaria Infection and Its Determinants in Urban and Rural Populations Living in South-East Gabon. [PDF]

J Parasitol Res
A better understanding of malaria epidemiology in both asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals is essential for developing strategies to control the disease. This study was conducted to determine Plasmodium infection prevalence and its associated factors among people living in Franceville (urban area) and in the villages of Pana and Mvengue (rural ...
Biteghe-Bi-Essone JC, Imboumy-Limoukou RK, Ontoua SS, Atiga N, Mbani-Mpega N, Kouna LC, Lekana-Douki JB, Oyegue-Liabagui LS.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Greener technologies in agri-food wastes valorization for plant pigments: Step towards circular economy

Current Research in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 2022
The need for food has drastically increased with the world population's unprecedented growth, which consequently raised agricultural production. The increased agricultural and food production as a whole has resulted in the generation of enormous amounts ...
Minaxi Sharma, Kandi Sridhar, Vijai Kumar Gupta, Praveen Kumar Dikkala   +3 more
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EU Outlook for Biomass Flows and Bio‐based Products Perspectives de l'Union européenne pour les flux de biomasse et les produits d'origine biologique Biomasseströme und biobasierte Produkte – Perspektiven in der EU

EuroChoices, Volume 22, Issue 3, Page 13-20, December 2023., 2023
Summary The Bioeconomy Strategy Action Plan calls for sustainable extraction, processing, and use of biological resources in Europe as a pathway to achieve environmental, social and economic goals. However, the transition towards sustainable food systems within and across countries is diverse due to the existing heterogeneous land patterns and ...
Myrna van Leeuwen, Ana Gonzalez‐Martinez, Viktoriya Sturm   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of ‘‘high in” front‐of‐package nutrition labeling on food choices: Evidence from a grocery shopping experiment

Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, Volume 71, Issue 3-4, Page 277-301, September-November 2023., 2023
Abstract This study investigates the ex‐ante effects of the front‐of‐package (FoP) nutrition labeling for food products high in saturated fat, sugar, and/or sodium, which is a new regulation recently announced by Health Canada to combat obesity. The Canadian food industry has until January 1, 2026, to comply with the new regulations.
Yu Na Lee, Laura Stortz, Mike von Massow, Christopher Kimmerer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Burn to harvest, burn to sabotage: Between fire and water on a sugar plantation in Madagascar

American Anthropologist, Volume 125, Issue 1, Page 100-111, March 2023., 2023
Abstract Since 2009, the Chinese state‐owned corporation SINLANX has been managing the Anjava Sugar Plantation, previously managed by French, Malagasy, and Mauritian companies, in northern Madagascar. Built upon the infrastructure constructed by the French colonial regime and operating based on a collaboration agreement between SINLANX and the Malagasy
Mingyuan Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

The UK’s Agri‐food Trade Policies One Year On From Brexit Les politiques commerciales agroalimentaires du Royaume‐Uni un an après le Brexit Die Handelspolitik der Agrar‐ und Ernährungswirtschaft des Vereinigten Königreichs ein Jahr nach dem Brexit

EuroChoices, Volume 21, Issue 2, Page 11-18, August 2022., 2022
Summary In January 2021 the UK left the EU. Brexit was ‘done’. One year later the shape of Global Britain’s agri‐food trade policies is somewhat clearer. The core EU agreements are a Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), and a Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland.
Alan Swinbank
wiley   +1 more source

Everyday attentiveness: understanding diabetes in Vietnam through literary displacement

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 595-612, June 2022., 2022
Abstract World‐wide, diabetes is taking on epidemic proportions. This is a debilitating disease that damages and destroys bodily systems unless blood sugar levels are kept close to normal, and patients are therefore urged to practise attentive self‐management.
Tine M. Gammeltoft
wiley   +1 more source

Looking in the Rear‐View Mirror: Changes in the Common Agricultural Policy in the First Five years of EuroChoices Regard dans le rétroviseur : évolution de la Politique agricole commune au cours des cinq premières années d'EuroChoices Ein Blick in den Rückspiegel: Veränderung in der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik in den ersten fünf Erscheinungsjahren von EuroChoices

EuroChoices, Volume 20, Issue 2, Page 54-57, August 2021., 2021
Summary In the field of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), it was widely expected that the end of the 20th century (and the beginning of the 21st) was going to end quietly. However, when the first issue of EuroChoices appeared in 2001, the CAP was again immersed in profound changes, in ‘a paradox: a CAP reform without budget, WTO or food safety ...
Tomás García Azcárate
wiley   +1 more source

Loyola, l’habitation des jésuites de Rémire en Guyane française

In Situ, 2013
This communication is an overview of the results of our archaeological work at Loyola, a sugar plantation owned by the Jesuits in French Guiana from 1668 until its ban in 1763.
Yannick Le Roux
doaj   +1 more source

L’Habitation Beauséjour : une plantation martiniquaise remarquable et pérenne

In Situ, 2012
In French West-Indies, the old colonial estates are not called plantations, but “habitations”, because the geographic space as well as the way of life differed here from the vast plantations of Latin America, Southern United States and Greater Antilles ...
Laurent-Christian Ursulet
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