This article addresses the issue of whether the tomato agroindustry (TAI) has been an effective instrument in the reduction of rural poverty. The TAI is by far the most important agroindustry in Mexico in terms of exports and employment creation. Most of the laborers employed by the TAI in northwest Mexico are temporary migrants coming from poverty-stricken regions in southern Mexico. Condition...

The leading Chinese-language newspaper in late nineteenth-century China, the Shanghai-based Shenbao, began in 1877 and 1878 to cover on an almost daily basis the famine engulfing North China. The news that millions of people were starving to death in the drought-stricken northern provinces shocked Chinese reformers and gentry philanthropists living in Shanghai and other parts of the Jiangnan re...

BACKGROUND Amid continuing social unrest from the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent Fukushima nuclear accident of 2011, the Japanese government announced plans for a major biobanking project in the disaster-stricken areas, to be administered by the 'Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization' (ToMMo). This project differs from previous biobanking projects in that it 1) was initiated mainly t...

On 11th March 2011 a magnitude nine earthquake struck the Tohoku region of Japan. The earthquake resulted in a large tsunami and an accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Previous studies have suggested that demographic indices relating to reproduction and marriage change after such massive disasters (e.g. large earthquakes). The present study investigated whether the number of births, ...

Abstract Two strong earthquakes hit Thessaly region on March 3rd, 2021 (M w = 6.3) and 4th, 6.1). The epicentres of the were located at approximately 23 29 km respectively NW Larissa, one most populous cities in Greece. Several aftershocks followed thereafter. Although no injuries recorded, several structures suffered significant damage close to epicentre, while some others collapsed. Approxima...

This article examines an underexplored episode in the history of cholera riots – ‘hunt for poisoners’ which happened St Petersburg June 1831. relevance topic is determined by importance studying population’s behavior during epidemic crisis, challenging both authorities’ ability to stabilize situation and possibility dialogue between them society. Based on newly-introduced archival sources, pape...