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Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: Scientific basis for action
(BioMed Central, 2014)
Background: Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) addresses the challenge of meeting the growing demand for food,
fibre and fuel, despite the changing climate and fewer opportunities for agricultural expansion on additional ...
Potential environmental and population health impacts of local urban food systems under climate change: a life cycle analysis case study of lettuce and chicken
(BioMed Central, 2014)
Background: Climate change is expected to have an impact on food production, processing and transport
systems. While food systems have become globalized in recent decades, interest has re-emerged for local
production and ...
Pollination and biological control research: are we neglecting two billion smallholders
(BioMed Central, 2014)
Food insecurity is a major world problem, with ca. 870 million people in the world being chronically undernourished.
Most of these people live in tropical, developing regions and rely on smallholder farming for food ...
Back to baselines: measuring change and sharing data
(BioMed Central, 2014)
International research for development is under increasing pressure to demonstrate development outcomes that
enhance people’s food security and well-being while preserving the natural resource base. The CGIAR Research
Programme ...
To label or not to label: balancing the risks, benefits and costs of mandatory labelling of GM food in Africa
(BioMed Central, 2014)
There seems to be growing controversy among interest groups worldwide about whether genetically modified
(GM) foods need to be labelled. There are also growing concerns, particularly among civil society groups, about ...
The role of varietal attributes on adoption of improved seed varieties: the case of sorghum in Kenya
(BioMed Central, 2014)
This paper examined the effect of variety attributes on adoption of improved sorghum varieties in Kenya. Using
data from a random sample of 140 farmers, a multivariate probit was used to identify variety-specific drivers
of ...
How do Companies Invest in Corporate Social Responsibility? An Ordonomic Contribution for Empirical CSR Research
(MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2014-01)
This paper takes both a conceptual and an empirical approach to answer the question as to how Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can be connected to the company‘s role as an agent of social value creation when it operates ...
Unusual metallo-β-lactamases may constitute a new subgroup in this family of enzymes
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2014-01)
Metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) are a family of Zn2+-dependent enzymes that have contributed strongly to the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance. Novel members as well as variants of existing members of this family ...
Stakeholder Valuing: A Process for Identifying the Interrelationships between Firm and Stakeholder Attributes
(MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2014-05)
As firms are creating and recreating themselves as stakeholder corporations, tensions mount between a firm’s fiduciary duties to its shareholders and the broader responsibilities inherent in a stakeholder focus. Firms have ...
Managing Computing Infrastructure for IoT Data
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2014-07)
Digital data have become a torrent engulfing every area of business, science and engineering disciplines, gushing into every economy, every organization and every user of digital technology. In the age of big data, deriving ...