Situation of innovation in the linkage between culture and performance: a mediation analysis of Asian food production industry

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 323-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hashem Salarzadeh Jenatabadi
Keyword(s):  
Mediation Analysis ◽  
Food Production ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Production Industry

scholarly journals The price of development: The importance of preserving local agricultural lands

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Rachelle Foss
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Current System ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Crop Farming ◽  
Industrial Food Production ◽  
Small Producers ◽  
Production Industry

Regardless of the fact that we have long been warned of the negative impact of industrial farming, rural communities are being wiped out as local producers, like Riverbend Gardens, are put at risk in favour of urban expansion. The industrial food production industry is unsustainable, leading to increased energy consumption and food costs because of the gross use of energy to transport food hundreds kilometres from where it is produced. Toxic chemicals used to combat swarms of pests that are nurtured by acres of single crop farming have lead to the increase of these substances in our environment. The growing disconnection between ourselves and how our food is produced, fostered by diminishing farm communities, allows us to continue as we always have, until our current system collapses. This will have a deleterious effect on our health and our environment. Many of the answers to the problems we face in our food production industry lies in support for our small, local food producers. Located within Edmonton city limits, sustainable, family run, Riverbend Gardens, is at risk of being wiped out if government and consumers do not recognize the importance of small producers and their part in solving the food industry’s failures.

scholarly journals Beyond multispecies ethnography: Engaging with violence and animal rights in anthropology

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Kopnina
Keyword(s):  
Animal Rights ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Habitat Destruction ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Multispecies Ethnography ◽  
Ecological Relationships ◽  
Medical Experimentation ◽  
Massive Scale ◽  
Engaged Anthropology ◽  
Production Industry

Anthropologists have mediated between discriminated communities and outsiders, helping to influence public opinion through advocacy work. But can anthropological advocacy be applied to the case of violence against nonhumans? Ethical inquiries in anthropology also engage with the manifold ways through which human and nonhuman lives are entangled and emplaced within wider ecological relationships, converging in the so-called multispecies ethnography, but failing to account for exploitation. Reflecting on this omission, this article discusses the applicability of engaged anthropology to the range of issues from the use of nonhumans in medical experimentation and food production industry, to habitat destruction, and in broader contexts involving violence against nonhumans. Concluding that the existing forms of anthropological engagement are inadequate in dealing with the massive scale of nonhuman abuse, this article will suggest directions for a radical anthropology that engages with deep ecology, animal rights, animal welfare, and ecological justice.

scholarly journals First Report on the Finding of Listeria mnocytogenes ST121 Strain in a Dolphin Brain

Pathogens ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 802
Author(s):  
Yann Sévellec ◽  
Marina Torresi ◽  
Benjamin Félix ◽  
Féderica Palma ◽  
Gabriella Centorotola ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Listeria Monocytogenes ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Polychlorinated Biphenyl ◽  
Foodborne Illness ◽  
Production Environment ◽  
Related Strain ◽  
Genomic Features ◽  
First Time ◽  
Production Industry

Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) is a ubiquitous bacterium that causes the foodborne illness, listeriosis. Clonal complexes (CC), such as CC121, are overrepresented in the food production industry, and are rarely reported in animals and the environment. Working within a European-wide project, we investigated the routes by which strains are transmitted from environments and animals to food and the food production environment (FPE). In this context, we report, for the first time, the occurrence of a ST121 (CC121) strain isolated from a dolphin brain. The genome was compared with the genomes of 376 CC121 strains. Genomic comparisons showed that 16 strains isolated from food were the closest to the dolphin strain. Like most of the food strains analyzed here, the dolphin strain included genomic features (transposon Tn6188, plasmid pLM6179), both described as being associated with the strain’s adaptation to the FPE. Like all 376 strains, the dolphin strain contained a truncated actA gene and inlA gene, both described as being associated with attenuated virulence. Despite this fact, the strain was able to cross blood-brain barrier in immunosuppressed dolphin exposed polychlorinated biphenyl and invaded by parasites. Our data suggest that the dolphin was infected by a food-related strain released into the Mediterranean Sea.

Iptek bagi Masyarakat Kelompok Petani Nanas dalam Pengelolaan dan Pengembangan Usaha di Desa Rimbo Panjang Kecamatan Tambang Kabupaten Kampar

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Apriza Apriza ◽  
Yenny Safitri ◽  
Neneng Fitria Ningsih
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Home Production ◽  
Medicine Use ◽  
Family Economy ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Production Industry

Indonesia is the fifth largest pineapple producing country in the world, but there are still many pineapple farmers in Indonesia do not know the benefits of pineapple processing that might produce various home productions and might help the family economy. Based on the field survey in Rimbo Panjang located in Kampar regency, Riau Province, it was obtained that some pineapple farmers do not know the overall benefits of pineapple and how to process the pineapple in order to be efficient and high sale value. The Farmers confirmed that the yields of pineapple farming was not adequate, they have to find the side job to fill their daily needs consequently. The further search on the benefits of pineapple is extremely large. It is not only can be processed as home production industry, but also can be used for public health. The aim of the IBM activities that had been carried out in Rimbo Panjang involved the group of pineapple farmer as the participants of community service. They were socialized, trained, and mentored on the development of home industry made from pineapple and the process of producing pineapple as the traditional medicine use for various diseases. The knowledge transferred are: 1) Training of food production made from pineapple, 2) Handbook on traditional medicine made from people, 3) Simple Bookkeeping Training, 4) The procedure of Trading Business License. 

scholarly journals BIOLOGICAL MATURATION AND MUSCULAR STRENGTH: MEDIATION ANALYSIS IN PREPUBESCENT GIRLS

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 192-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Gomes de Oliveira Luz ◽  
Tatiana Durão D`Ávila Luz ◽  
João Valente-dos-Santos ◽  
João Pedro Duarte ◽  
André Filipe Teixeira e Seabra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass ◽  
Mediation Analysis ◽  
Muscular Strength ◽  
Handgrip Strength ◽  
Biological Maturation ◽  
Strength Tests ◽  
Physical Tests ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Medicine Ball

ABSTRACT Introduction: Biological maturation has been related to the level of physical activity and motor competence of children. Objectives: This study aimed to: 1) analyze the association between biological maturation and performance in muscular strength tests and 2) examine whether the relationship between maturation and performance in physical tests is mediated by anthropometric variables. Method: The sample was composed of 71 eight-year-old Brazilian girls. Anthropometry considered stature, body mass, waist circumference, estimated fat mass and fat-free mass. Biological maturation was assessed based on the percentage of predicted adult stature. The physical tests consisted of 2-kg medicine ball throw, handgrip strength, sit-ups and standing long jump. Pearson’s correlation test was conducted between the study variables and the last stage consisted of a causal mediation analysis. Results: Biological maturation was significantly associated with the 2-kg medicine ball throw (r=0.52) and handgrip strength (r=0.42) tests. In the 2-kg medicine ball throw, the relationship with maturation was mediated by body mass (total mediation, Sobel’s Test = 2.214, p<0.05) and by estimated lean mass (total mediation; Sobel’s Test = 3.146, p<0.001). In the handgrip strength test, body mass was the only mediating variable (total mediation; Sobel’s Test = 2.251, p<0.05). Conclusions: Advanced maturational status appears to contribute to the performance of prepubescent girls in muscular strength tests in which there is no translocation of total or partial body mass. It is recommended that studies be conducted in other age groups. Level of Evidence III; Study of nonconsecutive patients; without consistently applied reference ‘‘gold’’ standard.

scholarly journals Antimicrobial resistance in the farm-to-plate continuum: more than a food safety issue

2021 ◽  
pp. FSO692
Author(s):  
Luria L Founou ◽  
Raspail C Founou ◽  
Sabiha Y Essack
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Safety Issue ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Critical Element ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Production Industry

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens to reverse the essential benefits of antibiotics, not only in humans, where decades of advancements in healthcare outcomes are endangered, but also in the food production industry. As the world moves toward Sustainable Development Goals, food safety is a critical element to improve and strengthen global health, and ensure sustainable development. Emergence of AMR in the food production industry represents a serious risk for exposed workers, their relatives and consumers. This perspective presents the challenge of AMR through the lens of food safety, by highlighting its multisectoral and multidimensional implications not only on the Sustainable Development Goals for food safety and public health but also on food security, animal health and welfare, the environment and climate, and socioeconomic development.

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