The negotiation of fair trade standards within Ecuadorian flower plantations by Angus Lyall

“…I take into account the case of the Ecuadorian cut-flower industry to show that FLO’s impacts on power relations ought to be analyzed not in terms of the standards, but rather in terms of the local negotiation of standards within territorial power relations. …”
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Effects of the Florverde Sustainable Flowers certification on floriculture companies affiliated with Asocolflores by Ricardo Andrés Bogotá Roncancio

“…This study aimed to determine if there are differences between flower companies certified in the scheme Florverde Sustainable Flowers (FSF) and those that are not, in their social and environmental practices within the framework of social responsibility (SR). …”
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LONELINESS AND ALIENATION IN FRANCE DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. A READING FROM “THE FLOWERS OF EVIL” by Nilson Javier Ibagón Martín

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Natural partners: a didactic proposal to understand the relevance of the mutualistic flower-pollinator interaction by Matias Cristian Baranzelli, Maria Lourdes Boero, Silvina Alejandra Córdoba, Gabriela Ferreiro, Constanza Maubecin, Valeria Paiaro, Mauricio Renny, Nicolas Rocamundi, Federico Sazatornil, María Sosa Pivatto, Florencia Soteras

“…The sequence of activities developed includes the display of a video, observation and handling of flowers and fruits, as well as play activities where the pollination process and the correspondence between certain flower traits and pollinators are represented. …”
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Flowering and fruiting of Ananas comosus L. Merr. in two cultivation systems under subtropical conditions by Sebastián Levin, Melanie Gómez Herrera, Paula Alayón Luaces

“…One way to mitigate this problem is the use of plastic covers (greenhouses), which could, however, negatively affect the productivity. We studied the flowering and fruiting of pineapple (Ananas comosus L. …”
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Characterization of endophytes endospore-forming bacteria from Theobroma cacao L. in Quinindé, Esmeraldas, Ecuador by María Aracely Vera Loor, Alexander Bernal Cabrera, Danilo Vera Coello, Michel Leiva Mora, Alan Rivero Aragón, Daniel Arturo Román Robalino

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El género queer de Marosa di Giorgio by José Amícola

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Factores asociados a la polinización del cultivo de cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) by Diana Katherinne Ríos-Moyano, Fredy Alexander Rodríguez-Cruz, Javier Andrés Salazar-Peña, Augusto Ramírez-Godoy

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Diversity and Floristic Composition in the Analogous Vegetation of Indiviso, Baquerizo Moreno, Tungurahua by J. Caranqui, M. Ortíz

Subjects: “…analogue flowering, shrub paramo, high montane forest, indiviso…”
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Application of floral therapy in patients with autoimmune diseases by Lutgarda Pérez de Alejo Rodríguez, Lucia del Carmen Alba Pérez, Martha Pérez de Alejo Rodríguez, Carmen Xiomara Moré Chang, Dayami Rega Echeverría, Claristel Blanco Ramos

“…It is known that Bach´s flower therapy is, among others, an alternative treatment of support for diseases with a component in which the negative effects of stress are intertwined. …”
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Reduction of emotional distress in patients with oncohematologic diseases by Yudisbel Rodríguez Rodríguez, Boris Camilo Rodríguez Martín, Oliday Ríos Jiménez

“…This research was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the Bach Flower Remedies as a complementary method for the reduction of emotional distress in patients with oncohematologic diseases. …”
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Integrative therapy and climacteric syndrome by Maribel Castro Gutiérrez, Lay Salazar Torres, Serafín Palma Mora, Beatriz Benítez Castro, Roxana Lago Pérez, Belkis Ocampo Soto

“…Objective: to evaluate the effects of integrative therapy with flower therapy and auriculotherapy on the climacteric. …”
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Consécration de la faune et de la flore comme motifs esthétiques et d’identité culturelle dans l’art mexicain du xxe siècle by Christine Frérot

“…The Mexican pictorial production, specially since the 1910 Revolution, includes inescapable botanical references such as the cactus or the watermelon, sometimes related with the local fauna. Concerning the flower, it has gradually turned into a feminist symbol in Mexican contemporary art.…”
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The Infant Jesus as Divine Love: a Dressed Sculpture from Évora’s Museum. by Diana Rafaela Pereira

“…In the left hand he holds a flower bouquet made of silk and paper.…”
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Rayén Lafkén: emancipación y resistencia económica en una cooperativa de mujeres mapuche by Daniela Beatriz Miranda Prado

“…The group Rayén Lafkén (flower of the sea) is a work cooperative that produces a snack made of cochayuyo (edible seaweed), composed exclusively of women who seek to develop a work centre in the commune of Tirúa, a backward area with high rates of poverty and territorial isolation, and classified by the State of Chile as a "conflict zone", as a result of the historical confrontation of the Mapuche nation with the State of Chile for the recovery of their ancestral lands. …”
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Identification of microorganisms associated with the soil, substrate and water of a Cannabis sativa L. production system. by Manuel Alfonso Patiño Moscoso, Gustavo Adolfo Rodríguez Yzquierdo, Mónica Betancourt Vásquez

“…In this research were isolated and characterized the microorganisms in the different phases of production of a high-density cannabis crop: planting, or propagation areas, production areas, and postharvest areas (flower pre-drying). In each area samples of soil, substrates and water were taken and the microorganisms present were identified by direct sowing in culture media, using microscopic identification and molecular characterization. …”
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Motivations to adopt Agroecology in rural communities of the Northern Andes of Ecuador by M. Ayala Ayala, M. Lane, R. Montúfar

“…In general, there is very little motivation for agroecological food production among youth and men, whereas younger rural men and women feel more motivated to work on agribusiness export projects such as the cut-flower industry.…”
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Prácticas de Lectura y Escritura Universitarias. Una mirada desde un grupo de discusión de docentes by Juan David Zambrano Valencia, Beyddy Muñoz Loaiza, Rubiel Medina Quintero

“…Tal lectura se apoya en el pensamiento teórico-técnico sobre el grupo de discusión de García, Ibáñez y Alvira (2000), en el modelo constructivo-integrativo de comprensión lectora de Walter Kintsch (1996) y en el modelo cognitivo de producción escrita de John R. Hayes y Linda Flower (1980). Una de las principales conclusiones evidenciadas en el Grupo de discusión, fue que algunos de los propósitos de los profesores, sobre las prácticas de lectura y escritura, se focalizan en dinamizar los procesos de aprendizaje de los contenidos disciplinares, acrecentar la base léxica de los estudiantes, hacerlos partícipes de la vida académica y superar, en diversos casos, problemas de comprensión y producción textual de varios niveles…”
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Calcium foliar fertilization and its effect on quality and shelf life in andean blackberry fruits (Rubus glaucus Benth.) by William Andrés Cardona, María Cristina García-Muñoz, Blanca Lucía Botina-Azain, Clara Viviana Franco-Flórez, Pablo Edgar Jiménez-Ortega

“…Foliar fertilization with chelate, nitrate, and calcium oxide in andean blackberry crops with thorns, in production, with pruning management, and in the phenological stages of flower bud, fruit set, and red fruit, is a viable alternative to improve firmness, weight, and diameter of the fruits. …”
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Propuesta metodológica basada en el análisis textual para la enseñanza de la escritura académica by Doris Moscol Mogollón

“…El artículo asume el enfoque cognitivo de Flower y Hayes (1981) y la clasificación de tipos de textos realizadas por Welrich (1975). …”
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