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Catalyzing Innovative Approaches in Smallholder Farming to Implement the Sustainable Development Goals for Food and Nutrition Security: Americas and Caribbean Region

Book Chapter
Roop, R., Weaver, M., Fonseca, A. P., Matouq, M., & Stewart, V. (in press)
Catalyzing Innovative Approaches in Smallholder Farming to Implement the Sustainable Development Goals for Food and Nutrition Security: Americas and Caribbean Region. In W. L. Filho (Ed.), SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region. Cham: Springer
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Innovative Approaches in Smallholder Farming Systems to Implement the Sustainable Development Goals

Book Chapter
Roop, R., Weaver, M., Fonseca, A. P., & Matouq, M. (2023)
Innovative Approaches in Smallholder Farming Systems to Implement the Sustainable Development Goals. In W. Leal Filho, N. Aguilar-Rivera, B. Borsari, P. R. de Brito, & B. Andrade Guerra (Eds.), SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region (971-998). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16017-2_70
The identified 169 targets in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) refer to agriculture and smallholder farmers’ contributions toward eliminating human hunger globally bet...

Empowering Organisations To Embrace UN Sustainable Development Goals: Post-Covid-19 Scotland

Book Chapter
Fonseca, A., Crossan, K., Weaver, M., Tan, H., Bratton, A., & Pershina, E. (2023)
Empowering Organisations To Embrace UN Sustainable Development Goals: Post-Covid-19 Scotland. In W. Leal Filho, M. A. Pimenta Dinis, S. Moggi, E. Price, & A. Hope (Eds.), SDGs in the European Region. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91261-1_38-1
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) argues that the global coronavirus pandemic has caused unimaginable consequences to the global community's economy, social stru...

Agroecology as Catalyst for Smallholder Farming Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change: Caribbean Region

Book Chapter
Roop, R., Weaver, M., Fonseca, A. P., & Matouq, M. (2023)
Agroecology as Catalyst for Smallholder Farming Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change: Caribbean Region. In W. L. Filho, N. Aguilar-Rivera, B. Borsari, P. R. de Brito, & B. Andrade Guerra (Eds.), SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region (405-427). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16017-2_112
Agriculture production emits approximately 29% of greenhouse gases, contributing to climatic changes. These changes increase pests and disease outbreaks according to the frequ...

Enterprise Education and Employability Skills: adapting the DOTS Model to enhance career development – evidence from a Scottish International MBA Programme

Book Chapter
Harte, P., Fonseca, A. P., Hill, E., & Hosanoo, Z. A. (2024)
Enterprise Education and Employability Skills: adapting the DOTS Model to enhance career development – evidence from a Scottish International MBA Programme. In R. J. Crammond, & D. Hyams-Ssekasi (Eds.), Entrepreneurship Education and Internationalisation: Cases, Collaborations, and Contexts (65-85). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003378570-7
This chapter uses theory and application to discuss the importance of enterprise education and employability skills in the MBA curriculum. Edinburgh Napier Business School aca...

Integrating nature-based solutions with traditional smallholder farming systems to build climatic resilience in the Caribbean

Book Chapter
Roop, R., Matouq, M., Fonseca, A. P., & Weaver, M. (2024)
Integrating nature-based solutions with traditional smallholder farming systems to build climatic resilience in the Caribbean. In W. Leal Filho, G. Nagy, & D. Ayal (Eds.), Handbook of Nature-Based Solutions to Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98067-2_85-1
Despite the current technological advancement in agriculture to improve the production capacity and livelihood of the estimated 608 million smallholder family farmers across t...

Permeable Pavements and Gabion Baskets for Rainwater Infiltration

Book Chapter
Roop, R., Matouq, M., Fonseca, A. P., & Weaver, M. (in press)
Permeable Pavements and Gabion Baskets for Rainwater Infiltration. In S. Eslamian, & F. Eslamian (Eds.), . Elsevier