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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Agrifood"”.
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On-Farm Apprenticeships: Labor Identities and Sociocultural Reproduction within Alternative Agrifood Movements
… for identity work and rehearsal of alternative agrifood movement practice (AAMs; MacAuley and Niewolny, 2016; Pilgeram, 2011). AAMs embody and recursively construct values of biophysical sustainability, food quality, egalitarianism, and agrarianism (Constance, Renard, and Rivera-Ferre; 2014). …
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Quality Incentives and the Development of High-value Agrifood Markets: Ecuador's Cacao Marketing Chain
This thesis explores constraints to the development of markets for high quality cacao in Ecuador. It focuses on the role of market level constraints, particularly the transmission of quality incentives along the marketing chain and their effects on farmers' incentives to invest in quality …
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Understanding women's perspectives and experience in sustainable agrifood systems in the Mid-South region of the United States
… of women farmers in the Mid-South's sustainable agrifood systems (SAFS) to identify factors constraining or enabling their empowerment. The three central questions are: a) How do women farmers perceive their relationships with various institutions, in managing resources for farming activities and …
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Development of a Maturity Assessment Model to support infrastructure development in Wholesale Food Markets
… advancement is continuously improving agrifood distribution supply chains by promoting efficiency, continuous improvement, and profitability. A vital segment of the agrifood supply chain is the Wholesale food markets (WFMs), which are known as agrifood distribution hubs. They depend on …
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Cabotage: The effects of an external non-tariff measure on the competitiveness of agribusiness in Puerto Rico
… Using a mixed convergent design, PR’s agrifood supply chains were explored and analysed in relation to the maritime cabotage regulation. Oligopolistic structures and collusion between maritime transporters and local agribusinesses importers limit the access to data, but other internal …
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Cabotage: The effects of an external non-tariff measure on the competitiveness of agribusiness in Puerto Rico
… Using a mixed convergent design, PR’s agrifood supply chains were explored and analysed in relation to the maritime cabotage regulation. Oligopolistic structures and collusion between maritime transporters and local agribusinesses importers limit the access to data, but other internal …
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Processi di biorefining per l'estrazione di secondary chemical building blocks da sottoprotti dell'agro-industria
… and optoelectronic applications). European agrifood waste represents a low cost abundant raw material (250 millions tons per year) which does not subtract land use and processing resources from necessary sustainable food production. The class of phenolic compounds is essentially constituted …
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Exploring the contributions of genotypic, phenotypic, social and qualitative data sources to our understanding of antimicrobial resistance in Canada
… E. coli and Salmonella in humans and agrifood samples is low, but that ESBLs are widely distributed in agrifood and human sources. There were few studies examining factors associated with ESBL-producing organisms in food-producing animals, highlighting an important research gap. …
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Saberes e fazeres da cultura alimentar tradicional da comunidade remanescente quilombola Lagoa Torta dos Pretos
… history, culture and identity, including agrifood management, traditional culinary practices, ancient recipes from ancestors, celebrations and rituals related to food. Food has an important role in social cohesion and in preservation of culture and community heritage. Through orality and …
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Non-destructive Evaluation of Food Products by Microwave and mmW Imaging
… using mmW imaging and ML classification in agrifood applications, particularly for soft fruits like apples and peaches, inspire us to evaluate the effectiveness of this approach for more challenging cases—specifically, in-shell seeds such as almonds and walnuts. The results obtained in this …
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If There Wasn’t Farming, Somebody Wouldn’t Eat: Small Scale Agriculture, Community Autonomy, And Food Sovereignty In Mississippi
… rural sociology, critical historiography, agrifood studies, and regional studies to further a person-centered critique of industrial agriculture. It uses the scalar model to connect Mississippi’s history of small scale farming, black land loss, and grassroots social movements to global …
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A Solidarity (Food) Purchase Group in Cape Town
… because of the perception that the globalising agrifood system is unsustainable, untrustworthy, and untransparent. These alternative strategies for food production and distribution are perceived to be rooted in sustainable, socially-embedded principles. In more recent years, solidarity purchase …
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Plant virus detection and diversity in a mixed tree fruit orchard determined through metagenomic-based analysis of honeybee (Apis mellifera) collected samples
… virus diversity was profiled at Agriculture and Agrifood Canada (AAFC) Jordan Farm; a long-term mixed tree fruit production orchard in Jordan, Ontario, containing tree fruit species including apricots (Prunus armeniaca), cherries (Prunus avium), peaches (Prunus persica), and apples (Malus …
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The marketing strategies of livestock enterprises in objective one regions : a comparative study between Greece and United Kingdom
… to Increase tile regional GDP derived from the agrifood sector in these regions, were identified.
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The Effects of Storytelling on Worldview and Attitudes toward Sustainable Agriculture
There is evidence that the American agrifood system is a significant contributor to environmental, economic, social, and ethical-animal welfare damage to the earth and to society and is unsustainable, yet the worldview of a substantial percentage of the population conflicts with this assessment. A …
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CHARACTERIZATION OF AGROBIODIVERSITY PRODUCTS FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF MARGINAL AND MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENTS
… (as spices or medicinal plants). Very often agrifood products turn into a gastronomic portrayal of landscapes, as in the case of honey, that is also a useful tool to monitor (further than a unique agrifood product) the conditions of special habitats in marginal territories. The environments …
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Effects of co-inoculation of Delftia acidovorans RAY209 on the growth of Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens USDA110 inoculated Glycine max
… and it is predicted that even more pressure on agrifood systems will occur in the coming decades. The cumulative impacts of this increased pressure will be driven by continued population growth, an unprecedented and growing demand for high quality protein, environmental degradation caused by …
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COMPARISON AND EVALUATION OF RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L.) CROPPING SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
In recent decades, the global agrifood system has increasingly faced variety of challenges, including climate change, soil degradation, loss of biodiversity, economic instability and the growing demand for food driven by population growth. Traditional agricultural practices adopted in rice (Oryza …
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Evidence-based design, physiological efficacy testing and consumer analysis of an exemplar model of a fruit derived bioactive functional food for use in physical performance and exercise settings
… the creation of value-add products using Irish agrifood outputs, a key priority in Irelands Food Vision 2030 strategy (Gov.ie - Food Vision 2030 – A World Leader in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021). In chapter 1, frameworks that were created as part of this PhD thesis to inform and guide the …
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