1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910427043403321

Autore

Alhassan Abdul-Razak

Titolo

Supply Chain Management in African Agriculture [[electronic resource] ] : Innovative Approaches to Commodity Value Chains / / by Abdul-Razak Alhassan, Mamudu Abunga Akudugu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-54209-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Palgrave pivot

Classificazione

338.1096

Disciplina

338.1096

Soggetti

Business

Management science

Operations research

Agriculture

Business and Management, general

Operations Research, Management Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Background issues -- Chapter 2: Commodity Value Chains Structures -- Chapter 3: Commodity Clusters, arenas, linkages, and business models -- Chapter 4: Priority products, supporting services and institutions -- Chapter 5: Systemic constraints within commodity value chains -- Chapter 6: Benchmarking and recommended production practices -- Chapter 7: Market opportunities and upgrading needs -- Chapter 8: Value chain profiling in practice - a case study.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines supply and value chains in African agriculture, providing both a thorough analysis of existing practices and practical business models for future development. It examines why Africa is a net importer of food, despite its vast agricultural potential, using the tomato value chain in Ghana as a case study. The book explores commodity value chain structures; commodity clusters, arenas, linkages and business models; systematic constraints within commodity value chains; and value chain profiling in practice among others. It would benefit policy makers, policy implementers,



development practitioners, agri-entrepreneurs, researchers and all those who have interests in the transformation of African agriculture. It will also be an excellent reference material for students of agriculture management, agribusiness, agricultural economics, and rural development. .

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996417967803316

Titolo

Ontario Labour Relations Board reports

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Toronto, Ont.], : The Board

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

344.713/01

347.13041

Soggetti

Labor laws and legislation - Ontario

Labor disputes - Ontario

Labor disputes

Labor laws and legislation

Trials, litigation, etc.

Ontario

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

"A monthly series of decisions from the Ontario Labour Relations Board."

Index published separately.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910674029103321

Autore

Falguières Thomas

Titolo

ABC Transporters in Human Diseases

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (494 p.)

Soggetti

Biology, life sciences

Research & information: general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Mammalian ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters constitute a superfamily of proteins involved in many essential cellular processes. Most of these transporters are transmembrane proteins and allow the active transport of solutes, small molecules, and lipids across biological membranes. On the one hand, some of these transporters are involved in drug resistance (also referred to as MDR or multidrug resistance), a process known to be a major brake in most anticancer treatments, and the medical challenge is thus to specifically inhibit their function. On the other hand, molecular defects in some of these ABC transporters are correlated with several rare human diseases, the most well-documented of which being cystic fibrosis, which is caused by genetic variations in ABCC7/CFTR (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator). In the latter case, the goal is to rescue the function of the deficient transporters using various means, such as targeted pharmacotherapies and cell or gene therapy. The aim of this Special Issue, "ABC Transporters in Human Diseases", is to present, through original articles and reviews, the state-of-the-art of our current knowledge about the role of ABC transporters in human diseases and the proposed therapeutic options based on studies ranging from cell and animal models to patients.