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An Interview with Assistant Professor Weerinda Mens

Elsevier

Celebrating Women in Process Intensification.
This special issue highlights and celebrates the diversity of career pathways of women in process intensification. This interview with Assistant Professor Weerinda Mens is based personal career experience with both professional & personal reflections

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Science; Technology; Diversity and inclusion, Global

An Interview with Prof. Panagiota Angeli

Elsevier

Celebrating Women in Process Intensification.
This special issue highlights and celebrates the diversity of career pathways of women in process intensification. This interview with Prof. Panagiota Angeli is based personal career experience with both professional & personal reflections

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Tags:

Science; Technology; Diversity and inclusion, Global

CommentaryBeyond “green markets” and local romanticisms for a locally grounded bioeconomy in Amazonia

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One Earth, Volume 7, Issue 11, 15 November 2024, Pages 1904-1907

To move beyond simplistic views of rural and Indigenous producers, a more inclusive approach is needed�one that recognizes the complexity of plural sociobioeconomies and values local producers as equal partners and knowledge holders. This shift is essential for building a fair and sustainable regional sociobioeconomy in the Amazon.

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SDG:

Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 17: Partnership for the goals

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Green economy, South America

Reimagining the Amazon bioeconomy from environmental justice and post-growth perspectives

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One Earth, Volume 7, Issue 11, 15 November 2024, Pages 1913-1916

The expansion of bioeconomy strategies focused on growth and technology in the Brazilian Amazon risks reinforcing colonial and exploitative patterns. To ensure environmental justice, development must shift toward community-centered, post-growth forest futures.

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SDG:

Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 13: Climate action

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Green economy, South America

Full-progress crop management and harvesting scheme with integrated space information: A case of jujube orchard

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Journal of Industrial Information Integration, Volume 42, November 2024

The full-process crop management and harvesting scheme with integrated space information can improve the intelligence and precision of crop management and harvesting processes. By optimizing field management, yield estimation, and harvesting path planning, the scheme can increase crop yields and quality, leading to higher economic benefits for farmers.
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SDG:

Goal 2: Zero hunger

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Rural development, Global

An effective farmer-centred mobile intelligence solution using lightweight deep learning for integrated wheat pest management

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Journal of Industrial Information Integration, Volume 42, November 2024

This article presents an integrated pest management solution that uses deep learning for semi-automated pest detection and an expert system for pest management decision making. The proposed system also aims to minimize the use of harmful pesticides, promoting more sustainable agricultural practices.
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SDG:

Goal 2: Zero hunger

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Rural development, Global

Intermittent food deserts. Exploring the spatiotemporal dimension of the urban fresh food access in Chilean cities

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Habitat International, Volume 153, November 2024

The intermittency of the food deserts positions Chile as halfway between the Global South and North models. The particularity of this model is that intermittently and regularly provides a healthy food environment within food deserts. Additionally, it has the potential to be planned for overcoming structural inequalities in spatial fresh food access. With a focus on Concepcion, Chile, this article analyses the importance of the spatiotemporal dimension in food access studies where a healthy diet depends on systems other than supermarkets characterized by intermittent operation over a week.
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SDG:

Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 1: No poverty

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Food security and nutrition, South America

Do children speaking indigenous and regional languages benefit equally from updated curricula? A report on a longitudinal quasi-experimental pilot study in Central Asia

Elsevier,

Studies in Educational Evaluation, Volume 83, December 2024, 101421

This study evaluated the impact of an updated curriculum on literacy and numeracy development among indigenous Kazakh- and Russian-speaking children in Kazakhstan through a quasi-experimental pilot involving 1,717 students.

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SDG:

Goal 4: Quality education

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Education, Asia

Genetics of Latin American Diversity Project: Insights into population genetics and association studies in admixed groups in the Americas

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Cell Genomics, Volume 4, Issue 11, 13 November 2024, 100692

Bordas et al. develop a genomic database, GLADdb, from 53,000 Latin American individuals. This database identifies ancestry across the Americas to promote equitable research on indigenous groups and admixed individuals as well as identify the migration of populations sharing indigenous ancestry.

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Global

A 12-year comparison of patients with Alzheimer's dementia with their informants in eight Asian countries

Elsevier,

Asian Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 101, November 2024

Update the demographic characteristics of patients with Alzheimer’s disease and their informants in eight Asian countries and compare them from 12 years prior.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Asia

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