A SOUTH AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE ON A POSSIBLE BENEFIT-SHARING APPROACH FOR TRANSBOUNDARY WATERS IN THE SADC REGION

A South African Perspective on a Possible Benefit-Sharing Approach for Transboundary Waters in the SADC Region

The concept of benefit-sharing is emerging in the international discourse on transboundary water resource management with greater intensity than a decade ago.While it sounds simple, the concept Bread Bin is complex and benefits are difficult to quantify and thus the concept remains unconvincing to potentially sceptical negotiating partners.Any disc

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Changes on Sugar and Starch Contents during Seed Development of Synergistic Sweet Corn and Implication on Seed Quality

Synergistic sweet corn equipped with multiple-recessive genes encoding sugar synthesis is proposed through hybrid breeding to improve the balance eating quality including flavor, texture, and aroma.However, the drawback on seed quality occurs such as low germination and poor seedling vigor.This study aimed to investigate the changes of carbohydrate

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Application of Commercial Biopreservation Starter in Combination with MAP for Shelf-Life Extension of Burrata Cheese

Burrata is a fresh pasta filata cheese manufactured in Italy.Its demand on the worldwide market is constantly growing, and prolonging its Icing Bags shelf-life is an important challenge for the Italian dairy industry.In the present study, combining a commercial bio-protective starter and modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) was evaluated as a strate

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Fallacies and fantasies: the theoretical underpinnings of the Coexistence Approach for palaeoclimate reconstruction

The Coexistence Approach has been used to infer palaeoclimates for many Eurasian fossil plant assemblages.However, the theory that underpins the method has never been examined in detail.Here we discuss acknowledged and implicit assumptions and assess the statistical nature and pseudo-logic of the method.We also compare the Coexistence Approach theo

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