The triad of cooperation, international exchange, and integration among institutions higher education has become the new norm in global experience learning academic training. goal improving standardising across countries is now typically also associated with fostering cultural political ties complementing processes economic growth. Behind rhetoric many initiatives, however, a competition geopolitical proportions, which various national or regional systems try to shore up their positions...

In this paper, we reflect on the evolution of place-based governance from a long-term (15 year) study rural development initiatives undertaken in region Poland as part its accession to European Union. We decompose recursive process institutional learning arising for heritage preservation and economic development. our analysis, elaborate typology unavoidable dilemmas that must be explicitly managed order allow effectively harness cultural value, social context, developmental needs certain...

"Fermented landscapes: lively processes of socio-environmental transformation." Food, Culture & Society, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2

Pre-prepared food venues (or soup-pot restaurants) in Cambodia and other Asian countries make their decisions about what to cook a complex food–society nexus, factoring culinary skill, seasonality of ingredients, diners’ expectations for variety. As such, restaurants exist as tenuous brokers between rural customs the prevailing city dwellers. In urban areas, they are transparent window into market cycles, well an opportunity encounter diversity participate consolidation everyday ‘national...

The comprehensive uptake of geographical indication (GI) worldwide suggests that global trade is at the threshold mainstreaming protections for heritage agri-food specialties. European GI model in ascendance thanks to a campaign institutional entrepreneurship engendered powerful macro-organization leading rapid diffusion sui generis GI. Through its success recruiting intellectual property regimes most East Asian countries into orbit and cultural production, it has become hegemonic, with...

Since opening to the international community following Paris Peace Accords in 1991, Cambodia has incrementally adopted a stance of political liberalization. Whether because exigencies reconstruction and development or by intention, large tracts institutional domain have been delivered into hands agencies, corporations, non-governmental organizations other private entities. Higher education was no exception, witnessing runaway growth private-sector capacity lax regulatory environment since...

This essay explores the ways in which materiality of rice is encountered by agents along production-consumption chain, from farmers to processors urban consumers. Each agent, whether it a farmer, miller, trader, consumer, or agronomic research agency, defines what material (i.e., both tangible and discursively relevant) with respect his her relationship rice. Materiality informally constituted each actor ideological standards that guide configure how different aspects rice, such as...

The global dietary transition is, among other things, marked by the prominence of softer, mechanically easy-to-eat foods and simple flavours. However, maintaining children’s tolerance to adverse experiences, such as eating around bones, or consuming bitter vegetables, is an important contributor nutritional balance cultural preservation. Re-framing capability eat ‘difficult’ admirable, broadly useful, life skill would go a long way towards fighting against food neophobia predilection for...

Abstract Nomadic pastoral communities are considered some of the most vulnerable to climate change. While Indigenous knowledge can play an effective role in mitigating or responding impacts change, extent their capacity adapt livestock and rangeland management is under question. This research aims assess scope applicability change–related acquired summer rangeland, with a case study Semirom, Isfahan Province, Iran. To do so, objective weather conditions (precipitation, minimum temperatures,...