Smallholder challenges in the growing palm oil industry

This repository item contains a single issue of Issues in Brief, a series of policy briefs that began publishing in 2008 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.2014 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow Laurie Wissler explores the challenges faced by smallholder palm oil farmers, particularly in Southeast Asia. Smallholders operating less than 50 hectares of land produce about one-third of the global palm oil supply, but their livelihoods are threatened by land conflicts, market vulnerability, and low crop yields. She concludes that action by domestic governments, industry stakeholders, and NGOs is needed to protect smallholders and to continue to meet the growing global demand for palm oil

Mythellany #5

For 7 years, we have struggled to put out an amateur publication with professional flare. To those offended by the amateur part, we apologize. To those who enjoyed the fling, we recommend the Society\u27s new publication of creative writing. --Veida & Steven Wissle

Ring-opening polymerization of lactones and lactides: An organic chemistry lab synthesis

This project analyzed the ring opening chemistry of D, L- lactide, γ – butyrolactone, valerolactone, dodecalactone and caprolactone. Starting with each of the above monomers, Sn(Oct)2,SnCl2, Zn(acac)2, ZnCL2, and AlCl3 were used as catalysts in the polymerization process. Initiators included benzyl alcohol, 2-phenylethanol and 1-butanol. The results of each reaction were analyzed by 1H-NMR and IR spectroscopy and dynamic light scattering (DLS). The results were collated to determine the most promising candidates for a student project in the teaching laboratory

Editorial

Our 1981 issue of Mythellany disappeared like Farmer Maggot\u27s mushrooms. I hope you got one. If not, though, here is the all-new 1982 issue. It\u27s expanded. More stories, more poems, more puzzles and crosswords and laughs

Mythellany #2

Our 1981 issue of Mythellany disappeared like Farmer Maggot\u27s mushrooms. I hope you got one. If not, though, here is the all-new 1982 issue. It\u27s expanded. More stories, more poems, more puzzles and crosswords and laughs

Editorial

We propose to lure your gaze into our pages by offering for your purveyance delicious, sparkling romance. Though oft have invitations -- even flatteries -- been addressed to you, how can you now resist the unique recounting of passion between Paris and H-- of T-- told by a certain bold champion of our Society who is as handsome as he is anonymous; or can you refuse an adventurous, bloody tale of pirates, written by a dashing teenager who later became that famous arch­ communist, Friedrich Engels

Mythellany #3

We propose to lure your gaze into our pages by offering for your purveyance delicious, sparkling romance. Though oft have invitations -- even flatteries -- been addressed to you, how can you now resist the unique recounting of passion between Paris and H-- of T-- told by a certain bold champion of our Society who is as handsome as he is anonymous; or can you refuse an adventurous, bloody tale of pirates, written by a dashing teenager who later became that famous arch­ communist, Friedrich Engels

Mythellany #4

This year\u27s issue of Mythellany is full of visions and mysteries, might-have-beens and what-ifs set in places like Los Angeles (Family Tradition, Lon Chaney\u27s Lament) and times like the future (You\u27ve Come a Long Way, Mickey Mouse) and the past (A Troll of Two Cities) as well as the present (Weaver)

When Does Familiarity Breed Content? A Study of the Role of Different Forms of ADR Education and Experience in Attorneys\u27 ADR Recommendations

This article first reviews proposed explanations for and solutions to the low rate of voluntary ADR use, as well as related empirical research. The article then reports the findings of a study that involved a survey of attorneys regarding their ADR education, experience with ADR as counsel or as a third-party neutral, and advice to clients about ADR. This study found that attorneys\u27 direct experience with ADR, especially in their role as counsel but also as a neutral, was strongly related to whether they recommended ADR to clients. In contrast, ADR education had little or no relationship with attorneys\u27 ADR recommendations, except for attorneys who had not used ADR as counsel. The implications of the findings for increasing voluntary ADR use are discussed

Barriers to Attorneys' Discussion and Use of ADR

Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio