scholarly journals Plastic Packaging, Food Supply, and Everyday Life

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-172
Author(s):  
Lukas Sattlegger ◽  
Immanuel Stieß ◽  
Luca Raschewski ◽  
Katharina Reindl
Keyword(s):  
Food Supply ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Network Approach ◽  
Common System ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
The Given ◽  
System Approaches

This article presents practice-theoretical conceptions of societal relations to nature as a fruitful alternative to common system approaches in social-ecological research. Via the example of plastic food packaging, two different practice-theoretical approaches to food supply are discussed regarding their suitability for relating the material properties of packaging to their everyday use by producers, retailers, and consumers: (1) the network approach (portraying food supply as a network of practices; these practices include material elements that interrelate with other elements like competence or meaning) and (2) the nexus approach (investigating the interrelation between social practices and material arrangements in which they take place). Depending on the given research interest, both perspectives have their pros and cons: the network approach is stronger in understanding the everyday use of technologies, while the nexus approach encourages the integration of infrastructures and environmental contexts that are not directly observable within the practice.

WWF (Pakistan): A Major Shift Towards a New Appraisal and Compensation System

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-187
Author(s):  
Fariha Zahid ◽  
Anwar Khurshid
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource ◽  
Current System ◽  
Organizational Values ◽  
Compensation System ◽  
Director General ◽  
Senior Manager ◽  
Major Overhaul ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
The Given

Hammad, the newly appointed Director General of World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan ( WWF- Pakistan), was musing over the decision regarding a major overhaul in some of their critical work practices. This decision was in response to the recent feedback received from the employees regarding the areas which needed to be improved in the organization. According to the given scenario, the majority of their employees were quite dissatisfied and demotivated over some of their human resource areas. Although Hammad was quite clear headed about the idea that a change was needed to take place in some of their key human resource practices, there were certain pros and cons involved in these decisions, which he wanted to discuss with his Senior Manager, Tahir. They both had their unanimous decision on the fact that if they wanted to retain a motivated and hardworking staff, their existing appraisal and compensation system needed to be aligned with the overall mission and organizational values of WWF. Whether they were ready to make this change, and how this change will reflect on their current system, were the main issues they wanted to address.

scholarly journals Food Safety and Employee Health Implications of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aljosa Trmcic ◽  
Elizabeth Demmings ◽  
Kalmia Kniel ◽  
Martin Wiedmann ◽  
Samuel David Alcaine
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Epidemiological Data ◽  
Control Culture ◽  
Safety Risks ◽  
The Face ◽  
Effective Program

The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the US food supply and consumer behavior. Food production and processing are being disrupted as illnesses, proactive quarantines, and government-mandated movement restrictions cause labor shortages. In this environment, the food industry has been required to adopt new, additional practices to minimize the risk of COVID-19 cases and outbreaks among its workforce. Successfully overcoming these challenges requires a comprehensive approach that addresses COVID-19 transmission both within and outside the facility; possible interventions include strategies to (i) vaccinate employees, (ii) assure that employees practice social distancing, (iii) assure that employees wear face coverings, (iv) screen employees for COVID-19 (v) assure that employees practice frequent handwashing and avoid touching their faces, (vi) clean frequently touched surfaces, and (vii) assure proper ventilation. Compliance with these control strategies needs to be verified and an overall “COVID-19 control culture” needs to be established to facilitate an effective program. Despite some public misperceptions about SARS-CoV-2 presence on foods or food packaging representing a public health risk, it is important to note that both the virus’ biology and epidemiological data clearly support a negligible risk of COVID-19 transmission through food and food packing. However, COVID-19 pandemic related supply chain and workforce disruptions, as well as the shift in resources to protect food industry employees from COVID-19 may increase the actual food safety risks. The goal of this paper is to review the COVID-19 mitigation practices adopted by the food industry, and the potential impact of these practices and COVID-19 related disruptions on the industry’s food safety mission. A review of these impacts is necessary to ensure that the food industry is prepared to maintain a safe and nutritious food supply in the face of future global disruptions.

Parametric review of food supply chain performance implications under different aspects

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janpriy Sharma ◽  
Mohit Tyagi ◽  
Arvind Bhardwaj
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
Comparative Review ◽  
Indian Scenario

PurposePresented work gives comparative review of food supply chain (FSC) under various notions related to its conceptualisation, operationality and technological advancements in lieu with Industry 4.0 revolution. In Indian scenario, the impression of FSC seems in a scattered way that cannot be directly useful for an organisation, to overcome this scattering, a framework has been developed to consolidate the previous research works and exploration of new trends in food supply chain management (FSCM) in context to Indian scenario.Design/methodology/approachThis article encapsulates the essence of various research articles and reports retrieved from databases of Emerald and Elsevier's Science direct, clustering the various notions related to FSC in Indian context. To visualise the one-sight view of related works, a pictorial representations have also been appended.FindingsThis article explains the general aspect of FSC and its linkage in context to Indian system. Presented work outlays both empirical and theoretical approaches trending from last 15 years. As research count in context to Indian FSC is lacking, so this work will be a road map for expedition in direction of FSCM, in era of research.Practical implicationsFindings and suggestion in this work can expanded in various industries related to food, helping to turn their fortune and enrichment of Indian FSC.Social implicationsFood is binding word for all the commodities, and its effective supply chain management is a big boon for economy of country along with large employment generation for people directly/indirectly associated with this industry. This article covers a generalise approach from ground level framework to a level of advancement which fulfil technological aspects, future needs and upcoming trends in lieu to need of developing nation.Originality/valueAs limited research is done in Indian FSCM, this work to bridge this gap along with a well-defined framework which going to explore FSC. This work is going to be facilitation for researchers of this area as no major review for Indian context has not been published.

Social-ecological system approaches for water resources management

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Animesh K. Gain ◽  
Md. Sarwar Hossain ◽  
David Benson ◽  
Giuliano Di Baldassarre ◽  
Carlo Giupponi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Ecological System ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
System Approaches

scholarly journals Sustainable food production with greenhouse technologies

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gy. Gonda ◽  
Y. M. Mubarak Al-AliNoor ◽  
M. Fekete-Farkas ◽  
L. Helyes
Keyword(s):  
Food Supply ◽  
Food Production ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Greenhouse Production ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
The Given ◽  
Desert Climate ◽  
Market Restructuring

The greenhouse fruit and vegetable production is one important area which supports sustainability. To achievesustainable economy and growth, the given natural resources have to be used in a smarter, renewable way in order to avoiddepleting them. New technologies and new methods are developed and implemented to utilize resources in more optimized way.Sustainable food supply is essential globally for the world, however it has to be managed and achieved on local levels. We presentthe greenhouse production market restructuring with new players. What kind of difficulties arise in the open field vegetableproduction and what benefits can be realized by the customers and producers from the covered greenhouse technology in thecontinental and desert climate? What are the technical boundary conditions to establish and operate greenhouse production indifferent regions and what are the benefits realized from local food production? As an example, we analyse Qatar’s energetics,climate conditions and food resources, Qatar’s food supply process and its barriers. We will show how the sustainability andfood safety appear in Qatar’s National Strategy Plan.

scholarly journals INTEGRATING INTERCULTURAL ASPECTS IN EFL LESSONS AT SLOVAK SECONDARY SCHOOLS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (9(78)) ◽  
pp. 12-20
Author(s):  
Zuzana Sándorová
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Foreign Language Pedagogy ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Given

Over the last decades the importance of incorporating intercultural aspects in FL education has often been emphasized, especially by intercultural communication as well as foreign language pedagogy scholars. Yet the everyday teaching practice in Slovakia does not always reflect this viewpoint, as it has been revealed due to some research in the field.  The aim of the paper was to summarize the results of the observations carried out at secondary schools in Slovakia in order to map which intercultural aspects were developed suitably and sufficiently in the observed EFL lessons. The investigation showed that EFL courses at Slovak secondary schools tend to disregard the must of integrating cultural aspects in FL education. One of the reasons can be the lack of further education for in-service teachers in the given field; hence, the paper also includes some proposals for teacher development in terms of developing intercultural competences in FL courses

scholarly journals The conceptualization of winners and losers of transition in popular culture

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-121
Author(s):  
Vesna Trifunović
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Problems ◽  
The Given

This paper is about the reconstruction of social presentations (picture, vision) of losers and winners of transition based on the products of the popular culture such as the domestic TV series. The given picture was considered in the context of the 1990s, when those TV series were filmed and aired (broadcast), which means that they are typical, primarily, for the period of the so-called first transition. The analysis meant the abstracting one of the dominant themes in both TV series which refers to a certain family of ordinary people, faced with the everyday problems of the time their time, and those problems being mainly existential ones. The identification of the messages about losers and winners of transition, which was being sent through these TV series, was later continued by establishing a formula based on which the mentioned theme (subject) was structured, and in the end completed by putting in connection the perceived oppostitions via semiotic square. The conceptualization of losers and winners of transition, which is the result of this paper, in no way implies that this vision of theirs is the only and the dominant one in this society. On the other hand, it certainly exists (existed) in the given moment and context and as such it came to surface through domestic TV series as the product of popular culture, through which often widespread and popular attitudes of a society are expressed.

scholarly journals Peculiarities of the logistic approach in the agro-industrial complex

2021 ◽  
Vol 935 (1) ◽  
pp. 012048
Author(s):  
L G Gordeeva ◽  
S P Filippova ◽  
A A Gordeev ◽  
M S Abrosimova ◽  
O V Litvinova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Stability ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Logistics System ◽  
Approaches To Studying ◽  
Financial Activity ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Food Market ◽  
The Given

Abstract Effective sale of products is one of the main directions of increasing the financial stability of enterprises in the agro-industrial complex. The use of a logistic approach implies a change in the existing situation at the enterprises of the agro-industrial complex, the introduction of new technologies in order to reduce the costs of commodity movement, and the coordination of interaction between participants in the logistics system. It is necessary to take into account the specifics of the food market more fully, consider the logistics system in conditions when a large number of economically independent market entities enter the market. The paper examines theoretical approaches to studying the problem of using the logistic approach in the agro-industrial complex and reveals the basic nodes of the agro-logistics system. Peculiarities of using logistics in the agro-industrial complex are described, basic logistic flows and processes in the given branch are reviewed. Types of distribution of products in the agro-industrial complex are analyzed. Influence of use of logistic methods of management generally and of stocks in particular on production and financial activity of enterprises in the given sphere is estimated.

scholarly journals “Nothing will come of nothing, speak again.”

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 88-99
Author(s):  
Sara Bomans ◽  
Remco Roes
Keyword(s):  
Local Context ◽  
Spatial Form ◽  
Physical Context ◽  
Spatial Practice ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Given ◽  
Cross Reference ◽  
Alternative Reading

This visual essay is a representation of a two month residency and the resulting exhibition in the Gasthuis chapel in Borgloon (Belgium). The project was a collaboration between Belgian artist Sara Bomans and Remco Roes within the context of Roes’ practice-based PhD in architecture entitled: The scenography of sublime space. This research attempts to translate the philosophical notion of the sublime into a spatial form. The large and uncanny sublime is approached through the notion of immanence – ‘the sublime is now’. By focussing on the ungraspable ‘now’, the given (physical) context of any moment becomes the material fuel for exploring the possibilities of constructing a spatial sublime. This journey continually balances between acceptance of the status quo and acting upon it. Through this alternative reading of ‘the sublime’ the concept becomes useful within Roes’ spatial practice that emphasises the fragmentary, incomplete and the everyday as opposed to the grandeur most typically associated with it. The title of the exhibition – “Nothing will come of nothing, speak again” – reflects the attempt at a continual seeking of meaning from the ‘nothingness’ of the current moment and the given situation on site. In the case of Borgloon this local context consisted of the empty chapel and over a dozen churches in the direct vicinity, suffering from shrinking congregations and facing re-use scenarios over the coming years. We decided to visit these churches and cross-reference our experiences and impressions with the spatiality of the Gasthuis chapel.

scholarly journals Connecting governance interventions to ecosystem services provision: A social‐ecological network approach

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Paul Metzger ◽  
Pedro Fidelman ◽  
Claudia Sattler ◽  
Barbara Schröter ◽  
Martine Maron ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Network Approach ◽  
Ecological Network ◽  
Social Ecological
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