The Agri-Food System in Question

The Agri-Food System in Question
Author: John Wilkinson
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2024-10-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 152924434X
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To mitigate climate, biodiversity, and public health crises, the global agrifood system needs radical change. The Global North remains central to agrifood innovation but new players in the South, especially Brazil and China, will increasingly determine its pace and direction. Investigating climate-controlled agriculture and alternatives to animal proteins, John Wilkinson shows that trade, investment, and innovation in agrifood is reorienting to the South. As the global population becomes increasingly urban, he skilfully illustrates the connections between social movements and technological innovation – and the need for consumer acceptance of new food habits.

Futilitarianism

Futilitarianism
Author: Neil Vallelly
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2021-11-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1912685892
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A proposal for countering the futility of neoliberal existence to build an egalitarian, sustainable, and hopeful future. If maximizing utility leads to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people, as utilitarianism has always proposed, then why is it that as many of us currently maximize our utility--by working endlessly, undertaking further education and training, relentlessly marketing and selling ourselves--we are met with the steady worsening of collective social and economic conditions? In Futilitarianism, social and political theorist Neil Vallelly eloquently tells the story of how neoliberalism transformed the relationship between utility maximization and the common good. Drawing on a vast array of contemporary examples, from self-help literature and marketing jargon to political speeches and governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, Vallelly coins several terms--including "the futilitarian condition," "homo futilitus," and "semio-futility"--to demonstrate that in the neoliberal decades, the practice of utility maximization traps us in useless and repetitive behaviors that foreclose the possibility of collective happiness. This urgent and provocative book chimes with the mood of the time by at once mapping the historical relationship between utilitarianism and capitalism, developing an original framework for understanding neoliberalism, and recounting the lived experience of uselessness in the early twenty-first century. At a time of epoch-defining disasters, from climate emergencies to deadly pandemics, countering the futility of neoliberal existence is essential to building an egalitarian, sustainable, and hopeful future.

The New Era of Global Services

The New Era of Global Services
Author: Javier Peña Capobianco
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2023-10-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1837536287
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The New Era of Global Services is the result of interviews with more than seventy international leaders. The results show that in the coming years, Global Services will tend to grow in business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C), peer-to-peer (P2P), an in particular peer-to-business (P2B) relationships.

Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2020

Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2020
Author: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 1075
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1472947509
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Packed with practical advice, guidance and inspiration about all aspects of the writing process, this Yearbook is the essential resource on how to get published. It will guide authors and illustrators across all genres and markets: those looking for a traditional, hybrid or self-publishing route to publication; writers of fiction and non-fiction, poets and playwrights, writers for TV and radio, newspapers and magazines. New articles for the 2020 edition include: - Raffaella Barker Writing romantic fiction - Chris Bateman Writing for video games: a guide for the curious - Dean Crawford Going solo: self-publishing in the digital age - Jill Dawson On mentoring - Melissa Harrison So you want to write about nature ... - Kerry Hudson Writing character-led novels - Mark Illis Changing lanes: writing across genres and forms - Maxim Jakubowski Defining genre fiction - Antony Johnston Breaking into comics - Suzanne O'Sullivan Writing about science for the general reader - Tim Pears Writing historical fiction: lessons learned - Di Redmond Ever wanted to write a saga? - Anna Symon Successful screenwriting - Nell Stevens Blurring facts with fiction: memoir and biography - Ed Wilson Are you ready to submit?

A Blessing: Women of Color Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive

A Blessing: Women of Color Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive
Author: Bonita Stewart
Publisher: Bookclick 360 Wordeee
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1946274461
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A Blessing presents a fresh, bold analysis of African American female leadership. An unapologetic look at our often-overlooked role in America’s social, political, psychological and economic history, it is armed with data that should be empowering for today’s “unicorns.” The book offers a “playbook” to help Black unicorns “team up” and find innovative ways to support one another as they climb, what research shows, are lonely, stressful, jagged yet ultimately rewarding ladders of opportunity.

Startups and Crisis Management

Startups and Crisis Management
Author: Dafna Kariv
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2022-10-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 100073627X
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Drawing on a mixture of theory, cases, and interviews, Startups and Crisis Management provides a valuable overview of how new ventures fared in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It then considers the wider lessons for startups operating in times of crisis and adjusting to the ‘new normal’. The macroeconomic shocks of rising unemployment, lockdowns, and remote working have impacted the entrepreneurial ecosystem and raised questions about how startups can survive, adjust, and thrive once more. This book analyses the reciprocal relationship between startups and their ecosystems, using theoretical lenses such as push and pull factors, necessity entrepreneurship, networking, and embeddedness. Each chapter contains case studies based on interviews with individuals from startups around the world, exploring how real-life firms reacted to the coronavirus crisis. This illuminating text will be a useful resource for modules exploring startups during times of crisis, and courses on entrepreneurship and crisis management more broadly.

Unicorns Are Vegan 2019-2020

Unicorns Are Vegan 2019-2020
Author: Simple Planners
Publisher:
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2018-12-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781792039089
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Promotional Limited Time Offer 2019-2020 Planner Our fresh, stylish 2019-2020 weekly planners are finally here! Gorgeous and hand-designed by our designers they hold everything your heart desires; vision boards, to-do lists, notes, weekly, monthly and yearly calendar views and inspirational quotes! Perfect to keep track of all your to-do's, meetings, passions and others throughout the entire year. Our range of 24-month planners are an absolute must-have for school, college, home and work! **Contains: Vision boards, 2019 & 2020 yearly, weekly and daily planner, weekly to-do lists, inspirational quotes, U.S. Federal holidays and 20+ ruled notes pages** This on-trend weekly planner 2019- 2020 has clean weekly spreads with plenty of space to write your weekly to do lists, personal goals and much more. The stylish and clean design will help you stay focussed on your objectives and passions. The 2019-2020 weekly view diary has inspirational quotes throughout the planner to keep your going strong all-year round and boost your motivation. It also contains 20+ college ruled notes pages for jotting, doodling and personal notes. 2019-2020 Planner Features: 8.5 x 11 in dimensions - perfect for putting in your bag, tote or purse - ample space for setting meetings, journalling or note taking High-quality, sturdy off-white paper Vision boards to help you achieve your goals Clean yearly and weekly calendar views to help you plan your year ahead Weekly Notes & Priorities + Inspirational quotes to boost productivity Weekly view with plenty of space to write down your daily plans and goals Notes section (+20 pg's) to scribble down your brilliant ideas and plans Durable and stylish printed matte finish cover to protect your planner Designed and printed in USA Buy this hand-designed Pretty 2019-2020 Planner now and have Amazon deliver it to your house or office in a heartbeat. Visit our author page for dozens of other stylish planners, journals and notebook designs.

Tracking the Franklin Expedition of 1845

Tracking the Franklin Expedition of 1845
Author: Stephen Zorn
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2023-08-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1476651140
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The Franklin Northwest Passage Expedition of 1845 is perhaps the greatest disaster in the history of exploration--all 129 men vanished, as did the expedition's two ships, HMS Erebus and Terror. Over the next 150 years, searchers found bones, clothing and a variety of relics. Inuit narratives provided some of the details of what happened to the frozen, starving sailors after they deserted their ice-locked ships in 1848. Then, in 2014 and 2016, Canadian researchers found the sunken wrecks, not far from the bleak, windswept King William Island in the Arctic. At last, the mystery of the Franklin Expedition would be solved. Or would it? This book pulls together the various searchers' discoveries; the many recent scientific studies that shed light on when, how and why the men died (and whether, in extremis, they ate each other); and illuminates what we know, and what we don't and may never know, about the fate of the expedition.

Billion Dollar Burger

Billion Dollar Burger
Author: Chase Purdy
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0525536957
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The riveting story of the entrepreneurs and renegades fighting to bring lab-grown meat to the world. The trillion-dollar meat industry is one of our greatest environmental hazards; it pollutes more than all the world's fossil-fuel-powered cars. Global animal agriculture is responsible for deforestation, soil erosion, and more emissions than air travel, paper mills, and coal mining combined. It also, of course, depends on the slaughter of more than 60 billion animals per year, a number that is only increasing as the global appetite for meat swells. But a band of doctors, scientists, activists, and entrepreneurs have been racing to end animal agriculture as we know it, hoping to fulfill a dream of creating meat without ever having to kill an animal. In the laboratories of Silicon Valley companies, Dutch universities, and Israeli startups, visionaries are growing burgers and steaks from microscopic animal cells and inventing systems to do so at scale--allowing us to feed the world without slaughter and environmental devastation. Drawing from exclusive and unprecedented access to the main players, from polarizing activist-turned-tech CEO Josh Tetrick to lobbyists and regulators on both sides of the issue, Billion Dollar Burger follows the people fighting to upend our food system as they butt up against the entrenched interests fighting viciously to stop them. The stakes are monumentally high: cell-cultured meat is the best hope for sustainable food production, a key to fighting climate change, a gold mine for the companies that make it happen, and an existential threat for the farmers and meatpackers that make our meat today. Are we ready?

Comprehensive Foodomics

Comprehensive Foodomics
Author:
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 2444
Release: 2020-11-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0128163968
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Comprehensive Foodomics, Three Volume Set offers a definitive collection of over 150 articles that provide researchers with innovative answers to crucial questions relating to food quality, safety and its vital and complex links to our health. Topics covered include transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, genomics, green foodomics, epigenetics and noncoding RNA, food safety, food bioactivity and health, food quality and traceability, data treatment and systems biology. Logically structured into 10 focused sections, each article is authored by world leading scientists who cover the whole breadth of Omics and related technologies, including the latest advances and applications. By bringing all this information together in an easily navigable reference, food scientists and nutritionists in both academia and industry will find it the perfect, modern day compendium for frequent reference. List of sections and Section Editors: Genomics - Olivia McAuliffe, Dept of Food Biosciences, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland Epigenetics & Noncoding RNA - Juan Cui, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE Transcriptomics - Robert Henry, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia Proteomics - Jens Brockmeyer, Institute of Biochemistry and Technical Biochemistry, University Stuttgart, Germany Metabolomics - Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin, Research Unit Analytical BioGeoChemistry, Neuherberg, Germany Omics data treatment, System Biology and Foodomics - Carlos Leon Canseco, Visiting Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Green Foodomics - Elena Ibanez, Foodomics Lab, CIAL, CSIC, Madrid, Spain Food safety and Foodomics - Djuro Josic, Professor Medicine (Research) Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA & Sandra Kraljevic Pavelic, University of Rijeka, Department of Biotechnology, Rijeka, Croatia Food Quality, Traceability and Foodomics - Daniel Cozzolino, Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia Food Bioactivity, Health and Foodomics - Miguel Herrero, Department of Bioactivity and Food Analysis, Foodomics Lab, CIAL, CSIC, Madrid, Spain Brings all relevant foodomics information together in one place, offering readers a ‘one-stop,’ comprehensive resource for access to a wealth of information Includes articles written by academics and practitioners from various fields and regions Provides an ideal resource for students, researchers and professionals who need to find relevant information quickly and easily Includes content from high quality authors from across the globe