Social protection measures are policy instruments that are widely used across a broad range of developing countries in pursuit of many different development objectives. In many cases social protection measures such as food or cash transfers were first introduced to ensure minimum levels of food...

Social protection measures are policy instruments that are widely used across a broad range of developing countries in pursuit of many different development objectives. In many cases social protection measures such as food or cash transfers were first introduced to ensure minimum levels of food...

Although first applied in the medical sciences in the 1970s, systematic reviews have been recently, and increasingly, used in the field of international development to examine the impacts of a range of development and humanitarian interventions. However, to date, there has been only limited...

Studies of urban agriculture (UA) in South Africa, and more broadly in southern Africa, have drawn on quantitative research methodologies to explain the involvement in UA of people from low-income households. Such studies tend to explain UA with reference to the direct economic and monetary...

Natural resources and their contribution to livelihoods have been widely explored within rural contexts yet have received relatively little attention within urban contexts. However, natural resources can contribute significantly, if modestly, to urban livelihoods in a number of often...

Duftstoffe sind als bewusst eingesetzte Produktkomponente (außerhalb ihrer Verwendung in Kosmetika und Haushaltsprodukten) noch relativ neu. Das Werk präsentiert Forschungsergebnisse und erörtert die einschlägigen Fragen des "Marketing mit Duftstoffen". Für alle marketingorientierten...

Um ein optimales Produktangebot für den Konsumenten auf den Markt zu bringen, sind in der Nahrungs- und Genußmittelindustrie Sensoriker und Marketingmanager in gleicher Weise gefordert. An dieser Schnittstelle von Produktinnovationsprozessen ist dieses Werk plaziert.