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Globally, there is significant apprehension surrounding food safety and security. Addressing the formidable challenge of ensuring a sustainable provision of nutrient-dense and safe food is imperative. Nanotechnology emerges...

Africa produces around 60% of the rice the continent consumes, relying heavily on rice imports to fulfill the rest of the domestic demand. Over the past 10 years, the rice-agricultural...

This article reviews available evidence on food safety and foodborne illness in Laos, especially as it relates to human nutrition. There is a distinct lack of research in Laos surrounding...

We offer advice, support and software for using the Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation (SMCE) framework, underpinned by ongoing methodological and applied research.

Despite receiving considerable attention, food insecurity remains a salient issue, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Among other factors, limited access to credit is one of the direct...

Condorcet consistent rules were originally developed for preference aggregation in the theory of social choice. Nowadays these rules are applied in a variety of fields such as discrete...

When a public policy needs to be implemented, there is a need of comparing different options and valuating and evaluating them to assess their social attractiveness. Each policy...

When one wishes to formulate, evaluate and implement public policies, the existence of a plurality of social actors, with interest in the policy being assessed, generates a conflictual situation. How...

Sustainable development is a multidimensional concept, including socio-economic, ecological, technical and ethical perspectives. In making sustainability policies operational, basic questions to be answered are sustainability...