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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Flower Industry"”.
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Leydi’s world : a feminist commodity chain analysis of the cut-flower industry and its women workers in Cayambe, Ecuador
… experiences of women working in the floriculture industry in Cayambe, Ecuador, questioning how the work affects and shapes female workers’ daily lives and how they navigate and negotiate such work. The thesis relies on the method of multiple working hypotheses to hypothesize that flower work is …
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Essays on development economics
… impact of the dramatic growth of the fresh-cut flower industry in Colombia on different forms of violence. My empirical strategy exploits variation in the geo-climatic suitability for flowers to understand how export shocks affect violence at the municipality level. I show that flower shocks …
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Clovette : predicting preferences for flowers
Flowers are often gifted for major holidays and personal holidays, for both personal and corporate purposes. Today's solutions in the market are abundant but scattered, with many players offering products of varying quality at a range of price points. To command higher prices and stay relevant in …
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An investigation of nitrogen cycling processes in a coastal fynbos ecosystem in the South Western Cape Province, South Africa
… important as a water source zone, as a source of flowers for the cut flower industry and as a recreation area. Sound ecological knowledge is required in order to manage and conserve fynbos because the extent of this unique, species-rich, endemic flora has been drastically reduced. Nutrients, in …
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The power to flourish: Unearthing the roots of Kenyan flower producers' market access strategies
Powering Kenya’s agricultural economy, the Kenyan flower industry is prided as an example of successful African integration into global agricultural trade. Export markets are bifurcated due to a marked shift from the Dutch flower auctions and an increase in trade within ‘direct markets’ which …
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A political ecology of the hacienda system: environmental transformation and everyday lives at Guachalá, Ecuador
… the region once again, followed by the export flower industry since the 1980s. For roughly five centuries, residents have navigated these ecological changes and socio-historical forces. The interdisciplinary approach of this dissertation seeks to understand how people carry forward these …