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The Dynamic Impact of the Energy Transition on Food Security in Developing Countries

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the context of persistent food insecurity and the global push for the transition toward clean energy in developing countries, understanding the association between clean energy access and food affordability is increasingly important to inform multisectoral policy interventions. Against this background, this study explores the dynamic impact
Boris D. Soh Wenda, Thierry M. Pondie, Aissatou Ndiaye, Götz Uckert, Katharina Löhr, Stefan Sieber   +5 more
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Sugarcane stem borers of the Colombian Cauca River Valley: current pest status, biology, and control [PDF]

, 2015
Citation: Vargas, G., Gomez, L. A., & Michaud, J. P. (2015). Sugarcane stem borers of the Colombian Cauca River Valley: current pest status, biology, and control. Florida Entomologist, 98(2), 728-735.
Gomez, L. A., Germán Vargas, Vargas, G., Luis A. Gómez, J. P. Michaud, Michaud, John P.   +5 more
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
wiley   +1 more source

Ultra‐processed food supply in hospitals: A cross‐sectional analysis of Australian hospitals using cook fresh foodservices

Nutrition &Dietetics, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim Ultra‐processed foods have been associated with a range of adverse health and environmental impacts, yet their supply in health‐promoting settings like hospitals remains largely unexamined. This study aimed to assess and quantify the proportion of ultra‐processed foods utilised in a sample of Australian hospitals using cook fresh ...
Priscila Machado, Nathan Cook, Mark Lawrence, Mike Forrester, Rebecca Patrick, Judi Porter   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of natural weed infestation on the performance of selected sugarcane varieties in the Southern Guinea Savanna of Nigeria

, 2014
Experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of some  sugarcane varieties against natural weed infestation. The trials were laid out in a randomized complete block design with split-plot arrangement andthree replications.
Fadayomi, O, Alabi, MA, Olawuyi, OJ, Takim, FO   +3 more
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Commercial treaties and political transformation in Sulu and Southeast Asian littorals, c. 1830–1840

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article re‐examines an economic treaty concluded between Spain and the Sulu Sultanate in 1836. Analysing the Tausug (Jawi) and Spanish treaty versions alongside archival sources from Spain, the Philippines, and England, it traces the impact of indigenous agency beyond the formal signatories on economic and political transformations ...
Eleonora Poggio, Ariel Lopez, Birgit Tremml‐Werner   +2 more
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Unfixing Place: Time and Value in the Anthropology of Food

Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although many anthropologists have engaged with the political and economic work of “place” in qualifying and working with food, time has rarely featured substantively in the economic and political life of the comestible. Gathering themes from my ethnographic research in Northern Italy and excavation time in anthropological scholarship on food,
Janita Van Dyk
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Fertilization, Soils and Cultural Practices CROPLOGGING AS A MEANS OF CONTROLLING SUGARCANE FERTILIZATION IN SMALL HOLDINGS [PDF]

, 2020
The results of logging sugarcane crops in small holdings distributed over 6 sugar factory zones in Andhra Pradesh (India) have been presented in order to indicate the relationship between nutrient indices of crops given different levels of N and cane ...
P V Ramana Rao, Rao, P V Narasimha Rao, M Lakshmikantham, M Rama, P Hanumantha Rao, G Narasimha Rao   +6 more
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Ecological and functional effects of habitat conversion and seasons on fruit‐feeding butterfly assemblages in tropical dry forests Efeitos ecológicos e funcionais da conversão do habitat e da sazonalidade sobre assembleias de borboletas frugívoras em florestas tropicais secas

Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.
Land‐use change and seasonality shape the taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of fruit‐feeding butterflies in tropical dry forests. Pastures reduce phylogenetic diversity and increase wing fluctuating asymmetry, while taxonomic and functional diversity is greater in the wet season than in the dry season.
João Rafael S. Macêdo, Gabriela A. Silva, Lourival S. Santos‐Jr, Marina V. Beirão, Geraldo B. Freire‐Jr, Bianca S. D. Nascimento, Uriel J. A. Pinto, Vini Gbami Silva Ferreira, Jhonathan O. Silva   +8 more
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Proteome in regrowth cycles of sugarcane: Absence of proteins to tolerate adverse growth conditions may be related to reduced agricultural productivity

, 2023
. One of the main objectives of sugarcane plantations is to increase their longevity without decreasing agricultural productivity. In the present study, we analyzed the proteome of the axillary buds of ‘RB966928’ to investigate possible changes in the ...
Claudete Aparecida Mangolin (5464778), Maria de Fátima Pires da Silva Machado (7530746), Mariana Mancini Benez (15377038), Gustavo Barizon Maranho (15377032), Rone Charles Maranho (15377035), Eduardo Jorge Pilau (6877595)   +5 more
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