Rising environmental concerns, Industry 4.0 technologies, and circular economy (CE) practices are the prevailing business considerations of current time, they transforming models. Keeping in view importance these considerations, this work looks into role technologies adoption CE impact on firms’ performance. The study collected data from 213 automotive firms located Eastern European countries i...

Abstract The Green Revolution is often seen as epitomising the dawn of scientific and technological advancement modernity in agricultural sector across developing countries, a process that unfolded from 1940s through to 1980s. Despite time has elapsed, this episode past continues resonate today, still shapes institutions practices science technology. In Brazil, China, India, narratives science-...

Everyone is agreed that one of the central components of achieving an „African Green Revolution‟ is to tackle the widespread soil fertility constraints in African agriculture. To this end, AGRA – the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa – has launched a major new „Soil Health‟ programme aimed at 4.1 million farmers across Africa, with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation committing $198 m...

This paper emerges from a book I am writing entitled ‘Europe’s Green Revolution: the Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant-Breeding, 1890-1945’. For the most part it concentrates upon the emergence in Central Europe during the 1890s of a movement which aimed to bring the advantages of modern plant-breeding to smallholders, the work of the state plant-breeding stations which were founded as a ...

The loss of genetic diversity of thousands of plants and crops has been well documented at least since the 1970s, and has been understood as a result of epistemological and political economic conditions of the Green Revolution. The political economic arrangement of the Green Revolution, alongside a post-war focus on economies of scale and export-oriented growth, replace high-yield single variet...

with A put in parentheses because unconstrained growth assumes infinite resources. The best illustration of the power of exponential growth is the metaphor of water lilies covering the surface of a pond: “Assume, the lilies are doubling the surface they cover on the pond every year. Three years ago they extended over one eights of the water surface and accordingly were hardly noticed, one year ...

Evaluation of genetic diversity and genetic structure in crops has important implications for plant breeding programs and the conservation of genetic resources. Newly developed single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers are effective in detecting genetic diversity. In the present study, a worldwide durum wheat collection consisting of 150 accessions was used. Genetic diversity and genetic str...