Glorious Food

Objeto centrado en el vocabulario y las expresiones relacionados a la comida, desarrollados en diferentes contextos comunicativos que incluyen el mercado, cocina, recetas y restaurantes

The telecoupled sustainability impacts of global agricultural value chains:Assessing the cross-scale sustainability impacts of the cocoa sector

Agriculture is a major contributor to the global environmental crisis. Natural ecosystems are being replaced by agricultural land, which leads to the extinction of species and the release of tons of carbon emissions. Global agricultural value chains (GVCs) have grown due to the intensification of international trade. While GVCs have undeniably created economic opportunities for the agriculture sector, they have also led to the escalation of local environmental issues. Several initiatives have been implemented to reduce the negative impacts of agriculture, including government regulations, sustainability certification labels, and voluntary sustainability commitments. However, the effectiveness of these initiatives has been questioned due to several reasons, including the mismatches between the scale of the problem and the solution, the lack of monitoring and verification of sustainability actions, and their weak enforcement. Sustainability initiatives are informed by studies assessing the impacts of agriculture that often only focus on local impacts, while disregarding larger-scale – telecoupled– dynamics that can trigger impacts across geographic and temporal scales. This thesis aims to help bridge these knowledge gaps by examining the impacts of agricultural GVCs across scales, studying the role of GVC’s configuration in modulating these impacts and investigating the role of GVC actors in mitigating sustainability risks across scales. The global cocoa value chain is used as a case study. Chapter 2 examines various impact assessment methods and their ability to capture the effects caused by telecoupled dynamics across different scales. The study concludes that no single method is sufficient to capture all telecoupled cross-scale dynamics and that the integration of different methods is necessary to bridge gaps between methods and complement their scope. Chapter 3 implements the recommendations outlined in Chapter 2 by analyzing the impacts caused by cocoa agroforestry and cocoa full-sun production in Ghana. Impacts on carbon, biodiversity stocks, and environmental pollution were analyzed within and beyond the farm-level. This chapter reveals that findings drawn from farm-level assessments can contradict those from landscape-level assessments. Decision-makers focused should be wary of extrapolating farm-level assessment results to larger scales. Chapter 4 expands the scope to the global scale by examining the role of the cocoa GVC configuration on the capacity of the sector to address sustainability challenges across scales. The chapter identifies different types of cocoa traders, their market dominance, and sustainability commitments. The chapter highlights that to address the telecoupled impacts of the cocoa GVC, coordinated action between traders is required, along with government interventions to balance power asymmetries. Chapter 5 measured the degree to which cocoa traders, as identified in Chapter 4, are exposed to deforestation and climate change. This chapter highlights that sustainability challenges in agricultural value chains cannot be resolved in isolation as farming systems are constantly interacting with other farming systems and land competing sectors. To avoid displacing negative impacts across scales, it is necessary to have a coordinated and collaborative effort from stakeholders and sectors involved in making decisions related to land use. This thesis shows that addressing the telecoupled impacts caused by agricultural value chains needs a good understanding of the cause-effect dynamics at play. This requires the quantification of impacts caused by agriculture across scales and the characterization of the GVC network of actors modulating these impacts. Interdisciplinary methods need to be leveraged and integrated to generate actionable insights. The findings of this thesis can assist decision-makers and private actors in devising customized sustainability strategies, prioritizing action, and addressing the most vulnerable hotspots while being mindful of global teleconnections and avoiding spillovers

Storytelling as a technique to stimulate english vocabulary learning in early childhood education

The purpose of this document is to introduce ‘’storytelling’’ as a technique for initial English education in EFL students from 3 to 5 years old, framed on the linguistic competence in order to begin stimulating and building students’ vocabulary at this age range. In order to have a clearer understanding some theories about the characteristics, types, objectives and implementation required for this method are going to be addressed showing a relation between different authors’ point of view of the distinct matters. To begin, when seeking for an effective strategy for teaching ESL or EFL to young learners, it is necessary to first be familiarized with the method that is going to be implemented during the vocabulary learning process; in this case ‘’storytelling’. Also the target population should be narrowed to a specific stage and in this project is centered on early childhood which was defined by the document number 10 provided by the minister of education as the stage between 0 and 5 years old where children develop their cognitive skills and acquire their first language

Las interpretaciones de las soluciones en problemas reales cuando los estudiantes solo calculan

Este trabajo presenta un avance en la revisión bibliográfica sobre las soluciones que los estudiantes formulan cuando resuelven problemas reales

Lagrangian skeleton on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

The understanding of the circulation of ocean currents, the exchange of CO2 between atmosphere and oceans, and the influence of the oceans on the distribution of heat on a global scale is key to our ability to predict and assess the future evolution of climate [1, 2]. Global climate change is affecting sea breathing through mechanisms not yet understood

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A Lagrangian descriptor applied to the Kuroshio current

The understanding of the circulation of ocean currents, the exchange of CO2 between atmosphere and oceans, and the in uence of the oceans on the distribution of heat on a global scale is key to our ability to predict and assess the future evolution of climate

Lagrangian structure on the oil

The understanding of the circulation of ocean currents, the exchange of CO2 between atmosphere and oceans, and the influence of the oceans on the distribution of heat and momentum on a global scale is key to our ability to predict and assess the future evolution of climate

Language games as a means to promote the speaking skill in fifth graders at a state school in Pereira

El presente proyecto de aula describe sobre la implementación de juegos con el fin de promover y facilitar la producción oral en los estudiantes. Dicha implementación se realizó teniendo en cuenta que el habla es tan importante como las demás habilidades del lenguaje durante las sesiones de clase, y que esta requiere cierto tiempo de práctica para ser adquirida. La población involucrada en este proyecto consistió en 40 estudiantes de grado 5to de una escuela pública en Pereira, Risaralda. Los participantes estuvieron expuestos a juegos del lenguaje enfocados en la producción oral por un periodo de dos meses, dos horas a la semana en las cuales ellos llevaron a cabo actividades llamativas que les ayudaba a interactuar a través del trabajo en equipo. Así mismo, las dos docentes en formación a cargo del proyecto, emplearon algunas estrategias para reunir evidencia y analizarla a través de reflexiones de cada clase y resultados del desempeño de los estudiantes. En relación con los resultados, es importante resaltar varios aspectos positivos, como lo es el crecimiento en la habilidad de los estudiantes para expresarse a sí mismos a través del discurso, un aumento en la confianza en sí mismos y un mayor interés hacia el inglés; así como una experiencia de enseñanza en un ambiente real para las docentes en formación. Teniendo en cuenta lo anterior, el proyecto podría llevar a la implementación de actividades similares en futuras clases con la idea de beneficiar y desarrollar nuevas estrategias que ayuden en la enseñanza y aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera

Evaluación de la estructura de capital de empresas del sector papel y cartón en el Valle del Cauca

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo presentar los resultados del estudio de evaluar la estructura de capital de empresas del sector papel y cartón en el Valle del Cauca (Colombia) -- Se utilizarán las diferentes teorías de estructura de capital como marco conceptual, recurriendo a la metodología de valoración, que permite a través del método de flujos de caja identificar su valor razonable, analizando de qué manera se ve afectado el valor de la empresa, partiendo de su estructura de capital y cómo ha sido la gestión de los administradores; si se tiene una estructura adecuada de acuerdo al sector evaluado y demostrar en términos de comparación cuál ha sido más eficiente y ha generado mayor valor para los accionista