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    Transforming gender and food security in the global South

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    Co-published with RoutledgeThe first section of this book focuses on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and its adaptations for different projects and contexts. The second section moves from measurement to empowerment; gender roles and relations exist within a broader social and cultural context. Part III of the book focuses on how gender interacts within this broad context, and the implications for food security. The final part of the book focuses on approaches to transforming gender relations. This book makes the case that gender equality and the empowerment of women must be central to any efforts to improve agricultural productivity, and food and nutrition security

    Natural Gas

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    Natural gas as a non-renewable hydrocarbon is used as an energy source for cooking, heating, vehicle fuel, and electricity generation. It is also used as a chemical feedstock in the manufacturing of plastics and organic chemicals. This book brings together new perspectives and future developments in natural gas. Chapters address such topics as adsorbed natural gas, fermentation processes for producing value-added products from natural gas, processes for separating C3+ hydrocarbon from natural gas, natural gas dehydration, and much more

    Encyclopedia of subsistence farming solutions : SAKpedia, 2018 Edition

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    This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and with financial support from the Government of Canada, provided through Global Affairs Canada (GAC)This encyclopedia for subsistence farming techniques is a “living” online, free, open-access book and searchable database that will be continuously updated and expanded. It serves as an in-depth resource for low-cost solutions to farming problems world wide. For instance, the availability of cheap fertilizers through collection and redistribution of human urine and animal manure can become a solution to restoring crop fertility through composting. Hundreds of other how-to’s of low cost applications for land and soil health, irrigation, seedling generation, crop pests, breeding, and simple post harvest systems are included

    Innovative Research for Organic 3.0 - Proceedings of the Scientific Track

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    The future challenges in food production and consumption appear clear: - Feed 9 to 11 billion people in the next 30 to 80 years with enough, affordable and healthy food. - Protect the environment (e.g. soils, water, air, biodiversity and landscapes) whilst increasingly under pressure to achieve greater levels of intensification. - Mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change in all farming systems and value chains. - Incorporate novel ethics, food habits, demographics and lifestyles into the food chains. - Produce food on limited farmland and fossil (non-renewable) resources efficiently and profitably. Several findings from scientific research and practical applications suggest that organic food and farming systems can help in tackling these future challenges.1The 'low external input' approach, risk minimizing strategies and ethically accepted production practices of organic food and farming systemscan help to produce more affordable food for an increasing number of people while minimizing environmental impacts. However, resource efficiency, low-meat diets and reducing food waste are also essential factors that have to be considered. From a global perspective, organic food and farming systems is still a niche sector, as less than 1% of global farmland is managed organically and only a small proportion of the global population is consuming organic food in significant amounts. Production yields are relatively low, and the goals of organic food and farming systems, described in the principles and standards, are not achieved on every farm. This needs further development based on scientific evidence and good management practices. A lot has been done already to develop organic food and farming systems. Nevertheless, to assure, that organic food and farming systems becomes a significant part of the solutions for the future challenges in the food and farming sector, there is still much to do. The Scientific Track at the Organic World Congress 2017 in Delhi, India, will contribute to the global discussion on Organic 3.0, and taking the opportunity to answers some of the challenges in the context of the Indian subcontinent in particular. After a double-blind review, done by 120 reviewers from various disciplines from many experienced research institutions throughout the world, about 183papers from 50 countries have been accepted. All the papers in these proceedings can be also foundon the database "Organic Eprints" (www.orgprints.org). The Scientific Board of the Organic World Congress 2017 Delhi, November 201

    Pseudo National Security System of Health in Indonesia

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    ABstRACt Adolescence is a crucial period where one tends to identify who they are as an individual. However, as a teenager is struggling to find his/her place in this world, it is also a time where they are prone to engaging in risk behaviors, which tend to have an extreme psychological impact. The objective was to explore the experiences of an adolescent who engages in risk behaviors and to understand their level of personal fables. The study was a qualitative design with content analysis with semi-structured interviews of ten male adolescents aged 16-18 years. The major findings of the study indicated that adolescent’s pattern of thinking revolves around the fact that they are invincible and invulnerable. Furthermore, adolescents are aware of the risks they are putting themselves through and how in the process they are hurting others. The implications of the study are to conduct more life skill programs in schools; greater awareness has to be created on the impact and harmful effects of such behaviors

    ABSTRACT BOOK 50th World Conference on Lung Health of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union)

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    The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease is an official journal of The Union. The Journal’s main aim is the continuing education of physicians and other health personnel, and the dissemination of the most up-to-date infor mation in the field of tuberculosis and lung health. It publishes original articles and commissioned reviews not only on the clinical and biological and epidemiological aspects, but also—and more importantly—on community aspects: fundamental research and the elaboration, implementation and assessment of field projects and action programmes for tuberculosis control and the promo tion of lung health. The Journal welcomes articles submitted on all aspects of lung health, including public health-related issues such as training programmes, cost-benefit analysis, legislation, epidemiology, intervention studies and health systems research
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