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Agronomic and Nutritional Perspectives on Vegetable Crops in Africa
AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.Vegetable production plays a key role in food security, nutrition, and livelihoods across Africa. Moreover, African indigenous vegetables emerge as underutilized yet highly valuable crops, rich in macro‐ and micronutrients, as well as bioactive compounds with an array of health benefits.
Đorđe Vojnović +4 more
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Making futures with urban experiments: picturing, preparing and persuading
Urban TransformationsFor city planners, public experimentation has become an attractive tool to “look into the future”, increasingly including novel technologies: Actors test novel mobility options, such as autonomous driving on urban roads to receive real-world feedback on ...
Manuel Jung +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability labels can help support consumers select more socially and environmentally friendly options, thereby enhancing returns for conscientious producers and promoting the transition to a more sustainable food system. However, consumer confusion regarding labels' meaning undermines their effectiveness.
Monika Hartmann +4 more
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Time, timing, and conflicting temporalities in experimental urban mobility governance
TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und PraxisIn this article, I explore the role of experiments in urban mobility governance. I ask to what extent they are responses to the challenges of coexisting timeframes and temporalities and what challenges the latter pose for experiments.
Franziska X. Meinherz
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Consumer Preferences for Craft Beer: The Interplay of Localness and Advertising Language
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the influence of the language of the label, origin of production, and origin of brewing ingredients on Croatian consumers' preferences and willingness to pay for organic craft beer. Employing an online survey and a choice experiment among 223 Croatian alcohol consumers, we find that while there's a willingness to pay a ...
Marija Cerjak +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native plants offer a variety of aesthetic (e.g., fall colour, fruit, flowers) and functional benefits (e.g., pollinator friendly, wildlife friendly, water management). How these benefits influence consumer choice and perceived value of native versus introduced plants is not well understood.
Alicia Rihn +3 more
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Walking through the microclimate: potential and limits of two participatory thermal walks
Urban TransformationsThermal walks have emerged as a participatory experimentation method that integrates both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Such experimentations are designed to capture real-time thermal perceptions in relation to diverse urban features, such as ...
Hala Zouad, Nacima Baron
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De quoi l’expérimentation urbaine est-elle le nom ?
MétropolesExperimentation, popular with many elected representatives, practitioners and civil society players, has evolved from being confined to laboratory and scientific activities to becoming one of the essential modalities of contemporary urbanism.
Charles Ambrosino, Laurent Devisme
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The Transformative Power of Social Innovation in Urban Planning and Local Development
Urban Planning, 2019 This issue discusses the concept of social innovation (SI) as a potentially transformative factor in urban planning and local development. SI represents an alternative to economic and technology-oriented approaches to urban development, such as that of ...
Torill Nyseth, Abdelillah Hamdouch
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Desidades, 2021 This article discusses a research process lived in partnership with children and adolescents from Favela da Mangueira, Brasil, in which the possibilities of reinvention of a fragmented urban space, marked by the corporal and territorial distinction of ...
Alice Vignoli Reis +1 more
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