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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Commodity Chain"”.
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Non-timber Forest Products, Gender, and Households in Nicaragua: A Commodity Chain Analysis
… product market. Based around the concept of commodity chain analysis, this research examines each stage in two non-timber forest products', straw brooms and coco baskets, life cycles from extraction to final sale. The first objective of this research is to contribute to the literature on …
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Leydi’s world : a feminist commodity chain analysis of the cut-flower industry and its women workers in Cayambe, Ecuador
… a feminist geographic approach with a feminist commodity chain analysis (Ramamurthy, 2004) to provide more embodied narratives of these women’s experiences to give voice to women who, in many past studies, are simply statistics. The project’s theoretical framework weaves together literature on …
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Sweetpotatoes in a Globalizing World : The Effects of Globalization on North Carolina's Sweetpotato Industry
… on North Carolina's sweetpotato industry. A commodity chain analysis was conducted by constructing North Carolina's sweetpotato commodity chain (SPCC) through the collection of quantitative data and interviews with various individuals (growers, packers, exporters, etc.) within North …
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External actors, high value resources and threatened species: shark fin commodity chains of Northern Madagascar, interception for conservation
… decline. Yet despite this, the structure of the commodity chain from artisanal and traditional fisheries remains ambiguous. This study investigates the structureand operation of the shark fin trade in northern Madagascar in an attempt to generate locally relevant socio-economic information and …
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Análise da atividade e gasto fisiológico dos catadores de resíduos sólidos: a percepção da terapia ocupacional
… collector is to return the materials to their commodity chain, and to accomplish this, two methods of collecting are used: one with a truck and the other with a manual collector car. This is one type of occupation which has an extenuating work time, where the worker is exposed to a high …
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Terminal Illness: The Political Ecology and Political Economy of the Millennium Bulk Coal Export Terminal, Longview, WA
… at the midstream point of the global coal commodity chain.
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All That Is Air Turns Solid: The Creation of a Market for Sinks Under the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change
… <p>This dissertation analyzes this new commodity and how it works on the ground. It describes problems encountered by UN negotiators when they abstracted, isolated and quantified a process such as breathing, which takes place naturally everywhere, anyway. It details the UNFCCC …
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Brand Kerala: Commodification of Open Source Ayurveda
… livelihoods of actors constituting the ayurvedic commodity chain, with a focus on `social lives' of ayurvedic pharmaceuticals and select herb-ingredients. I argue that the trajectory of commodification in Kerala provides a stark contrast to the national mainstream with its focus on classical …
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Niagara alternative food projects : networks, discourses and nature /
… food networks. The third section questions commodity chain theorisations of alternative food projects. In particular, this section shows how the inclusion of non-human actors in an analysis confounds conceptualisations of 'short' and 'local' chains. The final analytical section assesses …
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Managing nature, constructing the state: the material foundation of Soviet Empire in Tajikistan, 1917-1937
… required the establishment of transportation and commodity chains. These material implications of political and cultural projects are routinely left out of histories of Soviet power. My work instead illuminates the material and economic operations that fueled and sometimes confounded socialism, …
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Multiscalar Toxicities: Mapping Environmental Injustice in and Beyond the Nail Salon
… and those welcomed, and; between nodes in the commodity chain. Following Pellow's (2018) Critical Environmental Justice approach, to limit manifestations of environmental racism, sexism, and violence to certain "sacrifice zones" conceals the extent and reach of the violence; it perpetuates …
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Hemmed in: The geography of organic fairtrade cotton in Burkina Faso
Conventional cotton growing in Burkina Faso is unsustainable. It is characterized by low incomes for most smallholder growers, dependence on expensive agro-chemical inputs, and male bias across the sector. By contrast, the Helvetas organic cotton program in many cases improves rural livelihoods …
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Soil fertility management and economics of soybean in Ghana
… across buyer types operating in the soybean commodity chain. The second chapter assesses how farmers combine different ISFM practices when they experience precipitation shocks and perceive a long-term change in temperature and precipitation. The results indicate that the number of ISFM …
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Degrowth at a Global Scale? Geographies of Chile¿s Fruit Production and Export between Extractivism and Socio-Ecological Transformation
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