A Multi-Methodological Analysis of Jabuticaba’s Supply Chain in an Agricultural Cooperative Production

Background: In the late 1990s, the idea of fighting drought gave way to the concept of how to live with drought in the Brazilian semi-arid region. From this perspective, the Brazilian Federal Government’s investment in social technology and education encouraged local agricultural production and subsistence agriculture began to have a surplus for commercialization and income generation. However, there are still difficulties in the development of the productive chain, as perceived in Alagoas, Brazil, with the jabuticaba fruit and its derivatives. In this locus, problems related to the creation of value and distributions of the product were identified. Methods: This study proposed a participant observation in a rural producers’ association and a multimethodological approach based on VFT (Value-Focused Thinking) and SWOT analysis aiming to structure the problem, identify communities’ objectives and develop alternatives to solve these problems so that they can get more out of their production. Results: showed that the product has marketing potential due to its differential, but the producers are limited in the process of distributing the goods. Conclusions: So, this study was able to analyze the problems of this productive system in a structured way, generating suggestions for actions to achieve the strategic objectives of the cooperative.

Variedades comerciales para el incremento del rendimiento y calidad de fruto del sistema productivo de chile jalapeño en Quintana Roo, México / Commercial varieties for yield and fruit quality increase of the productive system of jalapeño pepper in Quintana Roo, Mexico

Los rendimientos de chile jalapeño en Quintana Roo son bajos y el tamaño del fruto es una limitante en la comercialización, el cambio del sistema de producción puede incrementar la competitividad de la cadena de valor del chile jalapeño, una estrategia para el mejoramiento de la productividad y calidad de fruto es la utilización de material genético con mejores características.Los objetivos del trabajo fueron conocer la calidad del fruto que se obtiene en Quintana Roo con las variedades criollas utilizadas y evaluar el potencial de rendimiento y la calidad de fruto de variedades comerciales en sistemas de agricultura protegida.En diciembre de 2019 se hizo un muestreo de frutos en parcelas del sur de Quintana Roo, los frutos colectados se evaluaron por forma y el tamaño. De las colectas se seleccionaron los frutos que tenían buenas características de acuerdo con los productores, se extrajo la semilla para establecer estos materiales en enero de 2020 en invernadero, se evaluó la forma y tamaño del fruto y se compararon con las características de los frutos colectados. En febrero de 2020 se evaluaron 7 variedades comerciales en invernadero, se evaluó el rendimiento en toneladas por hectárea, tamaño de fruto y color de fruto.Se encontró que la producción de chile jalapeño en Quintana Roo presentó una amplia variación en la forma del fruto y su clasificación por tamaño fue de frutos medianos y chicos. La calidad del fruto de los materiales criollos cultivados a cielo abierto bajo condiciones de temporal no mejoró al cambiar su cultivo a invernadero en condiciones de riego. Las variedades comerciales evaluadas presentaron uniformidad en la forma del fruto y superaron en tamaño a los frutos procedentes de los muestreos de las parcelas de Quintana Roo. Mixteco y Orizaba fueron las variedades más productiva (21 ton/ha).

Effects of Rail Freight Corridors in Low Population Regions

Impact analysis of the construction and commissioning of a rail freight infrastructure must contemplate the regional economic system in its entirety, since that impact extends beyond the direct contribution to the increase in production, and the consequent generation of income from capital and remuneration of labor incorporated in such activity. The objective of this research is to know the effects that a rail freight infrastructure produces in a region with a low population, such as Extremadura (Spain). For this purpose, the calculation of the total impact produced by the rail freight corridor on the regional economy of Extremadura has been made, which will correspond to the sum of the direct, indirect and induced impacts. For its determination, a simulation tool has been created from Input-Output tables that allow you to compare different impact levels depending on the intensity of the investments made, or the activity developed following the launch of the new rail corridor. The research concludes with the profitability of the action because for a planned investment of 160 M€ for 3 years in the freight rail corridor from Extremadura, every euro invested returns in more than 2 euros to the Extremadura’s productive system, creating more than 4100 jobs.

Over and Over, and Over Again: Tension, Repetition, and Catharsis in the Films of Wes Anderson

This article argues that Wes Anderson’s films repeat formal and thematic strategies in such a way that resists traditional auteurist analysis. By looking at Anderson’s recognizable style of image composition, his expansive paratext, and recurring thematic motifs, we can see a productive system of repetition operative both within and across his films. The value Anderson places on repetition opposes Peter Wollen’s structural auteurist framework, which values variation over repetition. Such opposition allows Anderson’s films to be taken up as a critique of this valuation, demonstrated through an analysis of the productive role of repetition in his work.

The Main Research Characteristics of the Development of the Concept of the Circular Economy Concept: A Global Analysis and the Future Agenda

In recent years, the concept of the Circular Economy has acquired greater traction, both in the research community and in wider society, as an instrument that provides innumerable methodologies with which to face the environmental, social, and environmental challenges caused by the linear production model. This study focuses on analyzing the degree of advancement of the Circular Economy in the scientific field through a bibliometric analysis (or scientometrics) of 5,007 research articles available in Scopus database and published during the period 2005–2007. The main research characteristics are presented, and the Paris Climate Conference (COP21), held on December 12, 2015, is highlighted as a key driver of this particular line of research. The analysis revealed the main authors, journals, subject area, countries and current and future lines of research, finding that the Circular Economy is a paradigm with environmental, economic and social implications, both for the productive system and for consumers.

The Economic Impact of the SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) Pandemic in Spain

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the Spanish economy hard. The result is an unprecedented economic and social crisis due to uncertainty about the remedy, and due to the socio-economic effects on people’s lives. Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of the macro-economic impact of COVID-19 in 2020, using the principal indicators of the Spanish economic and productive model. National statistics were examined in the search for impacts or anomalies occurring since the beginning of the pandemic. To estimate the strength of the impact on each of the indicators analysed, we used Bayesian structural time series. Results: In 2020, the cumulative impact on the Gross Domestic Product was of -11.41% [95% credible interval: -13.46; -9.29]. The indicator for Business Turnover fell by -9.37% [-12.71; -6.07]. The reduction in business activity was related to the sharp fall in demand. The Spanish employment market was strongly affected; our estimates showed a cumulative increase of 11.9% [4.27; 19.45] in the rate of unemployment during 2020. The autonomous communities which are economically the most heavily dependent on the services sector were those which recorded the worst indicators. Conclusions: Our estimates portray a dramatic situation in our country, and show all too clearly the fragility of a productive system which has to make the behavioural changes that are necessary to confront the COVID-19 pandemic.

Headless Relative Clauses in Sierra Popoluca

This chapter presents the first investigation of headless relative clauses in Sierra Popoluca, a Mixe-Zoquean language spoken in the southern part of the state of Veracruz, Mexico. It shows that Sierra Popoluca exhibits a very productive system of headless relative clauses. The language has free relative clauses of all three major types attested crosslinguistically and, remarkably, all three types can be introduced by almost all the wh-words that can occur in wh- interrogative clauses. It also has two types of light-headed relative clauses, both with demonstrative pronouns as their “light heads”: those which are introduced by a relative subordinator and those that are introduced by wh-words—the same two strategies attested in headed relative clauses in Sierra Popoluca. Finally, the language has one more variety of headless relative clause that lacks both a light head and a wh-word.

Identifying the Entrepreneurship Behavioral Dimension of Tribal Dairy Farmers in Balrampur District of Chhattisgarh

Dairy farming is not an essential part of farming but also the most appropriate productive system, with enormous potential for improving the socio-economic status of dairy farmers in the tribal region. The study was conducted during 2018-19 in the Northern Hill Region of Chhattisgarh to identify the dimension of entrepreneurial behaviour of tribal dairy farmers with the help of Principal Component Analysis (PCA). It extracted the important information to display the pattern of similarity between the observations from the statistical data of tribal dairy farmers and to represent the new set of orthogonal variables as risk bearing ability, level of interest, level of confidence, managerial ability, innovativeness, motivation, optimistic attitude, and risk respectively.

Field hospitals to face COVID-19: Requirements and lessons learned in the design and construction of the Lagoa Barra Hospital - Brazil

The construction of field hospitals has been a strategy adopted worldwide to face the consequences of the pandemic impacts caused by COVID-19 on healthcare systems. Specific characteristics of this pandemic, such as different ways and speeds of the disease transmission, and the implications at the population health and the productive system, has made the project, management, and construction of field hospitals for the patients with COVID-19 present specific features. In this work, for each phase of the FHLB implantation, we present the main concepts, premises, restrictions, and challenges, focusing mainly on the needs programs of the project that guided the configuration of the environments, the definition of the circulation flows, the typology of the beds, the main management tools used during the project's planning and control process, and in the lessons learned.