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.

UNINA9910480085803321

Autore

Alexandrova Alena

Titolo

Breaking Resemblance : The Role of Religious Motifs in Contemporary Art / / Alena Alexandrova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-8232-7452-7

0-8232-7450-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

700/.4820218

Soggetti

Art, Modern - 21st century - Themes, motives

Art, Modern - 20th century - Themes, motives

Idols and images in art

Art and religion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Situating Contemporary Art and Religion -- 1. Veronicas and Artists -- 2. Breaking the Religious Image: Reinventing Religion in Art -- 3. Between Critical Displacements and Spiritual Affirmations -- 4. Images between Religion and Art -- 5. The Video Veronicas of Bill Viola -- 6. Images That Do Not Rest: The Installations of Lawrence Malstaf -- 7. Illusionism Cut: The Painting of Victoria Reynolds -- 8. The Body Recast: The Sculpture of Berlinde de Bruyckere -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In recent decades curators and artists have shown a distinct interest in



religion, its different traditions, manifestations in public life, gestures and images. Breaking Resemblance explores the complex relationship between contemporary art and religion by focusing on the ways artists re-work religious motifs as a means to reflect critically on our desire to believe in images, on the history of seeing them, and on their double power— iconic and political. It discusses a number of exhibitions that take religion as their central theme, and a selection of works by Bill Viola, Lawrence Malstaf, Victoria Reynolds, and Berlinde de Bruyckere—all of whom, in their respective ways and media, recycle religious motifs and iconography and whose works resonate with, or problematize the motif of, the true image.