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Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive introduction to the study of food and society. The book begins by examining the food economy, with chapters focusing on foodscapes, the financialization of food, and a new chapter dedicated to food and nutrition (in)security. In Part II, the book addresses community and culture. While some books only look at the interrelationships between food and culture, this section problematizes the food system from the standpoint of marginalized bodies. It contains chapters focusing on agricultural and food labor and the peasantries, topics which are often overlooked, and gen...
This study comprises a review of oil palm development and management across landscapes in the tropics. Seven countries have been selected for detailed analysis using surveys of the current literature, mainly spanning the last fifteen years. Indonesia and Malaysia are the obvious leaders in terms of area planted and levels of production and export, but also in literature generated on social and environmental challenges. In Latin America, Colombia is the dominant producer with oil palm expanding in disparate landscapes with a strong focus on palm oil-based biodiesel; and small-scale growers and companies in Peru and Brazil offer contrasting ways of inserting oil palm into the Amazon. Nigeria and Cameroon represent African nations with traditional groves and old plantations in which foreign land grabs to establish new oil palm have recently occurred.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Workshop on Engineering Applications, WEA 2016, held in Bogotá, Colombia, in September 2016. The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 128 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computer science; computational intelligence; simulation systems; fuzzy sets and systems; power systems; miscellaneous applications.
This book is a compilation of works of different areas that seek to apply the intelligent and complex systems in various applied problems. The problems that are worked in the book are the evaluation of the competence of the states, fuzzy classification, relationship between incentives and innovation, design of new products, analysis of profiles in social networks, innovation capabilities, software development, business growth, leadership and use of big data.
La ciudad es producto y centro de los flujos debidos a la globalización, un proceso que no solo ha generado nuevas formas de desarrollo urbano, sino que también ha cambiado los hábitos de vida de los ciudadanos y los modelos de negocio. Fruto de las investigaciones de especialistas del Mediterráneo europeo y América Latina, este libro analiza desde diversas perspectivas la ciudad y lo urbano en los tiempos de las crisis contemporáneas, centrando la atención en las actividades ligadas al comercio y el consumo como principales funciones de la economía y de la vida cotidiana. Geógrafos, economistas, sociólogos, urbanistas, estudiosos de las artes y de la comunicación exponen sus conocimientos y experiencias para explicar el mundo que nos rodea y, a la vez, aportar soluciones que mejoren las políticas de gestión.
Organizational Management Sustainability in VUCA Contexts is an insightful and comprehensive book that delves into the complex interplay between sustainability and the challenging landscapes of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA). With a focus on bridging the gap between present and future generations, this book navigates the intricate web of economic success, social development, environmental health, and societal stability. Drawing upon a blend of theoretical foundations and practical examples, this book aims to unravel the phenomenon of sustainability in VUCA contexts by analyzing both exemplary and detrimental management practices across public and private sectors. T...
El texto que se presenta es un estudio escrito por Mildred Hartmann acerca de los primeros años de funcionamiento del sistema acusatorio en Colombia, que fue realizado durante el año 2007 y que da cuenta de las dos primeras etapas de la implementación de esta importante reforma. El Centro de Estudios de Justicia de las Américas apoyó el desarrollo de este estudio como lo ha hecho con otros similares en los demás países en que este tipo de reformas ha tenido lugar, y lo ha hecho en el convencimiento de que la única manera de que una reforma tan compleja sea exitosa, consiste en que sus primeros resultados sean expuestos y examinados en un amplio debate público, con el fin de hacer po...
Los semilleros de investigación en la Universidad Santo Tomás se han venido configurando alrededor de la idea de que las habilidades de investigación se adquieren solo en el ejercicio y la práctica investigativa. A esto se refiere el principio que fundamenta la conformación de estos colectivos: "aprender a investigar im·estigando". Es por esto que desde el 2010, la Universidad ha hecho esfuerzos Importantes para fomentar y consolidar a los semilleros de investigación como una de las estrategias institucionales más importantes en lo que a formación investigativa se refiere. Estos escenarios formativos se caracterizan por tener como fuente de su creación la autonomía y el deseo de a...
Tropentag is the largest interdisciplinary conference in Europe, focused on developmentoriented research in the fields of tropical and subtropical agriculture, food security, natural resource management and rural development. Tropentag takes place annually, even though the past two years were particularly challenging, while the conference had to be organised as an online only event. One of the lessons that we learnt from the virtual conferences is that yes, it is possible to organise it that way, but that it is much better to meet and talk in person. We are thus very happy that this year (two years after what was initially planned), we are able to organise the Tropentag 2022 conference at the campus of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic, and thrilled that we will again meet all face-to-face, during the 14-16 September venue. However, some of you, due to various reasons, who could not come to Prague, you can still participate at this year Tropentag, as all plenary and oral scientific sessions are streamed via the Whova platform, and we also organise several online poster sessions.