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Challenges, Volume 1, Issue 1 (December 2010) – 3 articles , Pages 1-26

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Paths to Attaining Food Security: The Case of Cameroon
by Genesis T. Yengoh, Frederick Ato Armah and Edward Ebo Onumah
Challenges 2010, 1(1), 5-26; https://doi.org/10.3390/challe1010005 - 03 Aug 2010
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This paper sets out to develop a framework for characterizing agricultural growth orientations. We identify four main components in the global food system (technology, institutions, people, and natural resources). Based on the extent to which any two of these components are important in [...] Read more.
This paper sets out to develop a framework for characterizing agricultural growth orientations. We identify four main components in the global food system (technology, institutions, people, and natural resources). Based on the extent to which any two of these components are important in driving the growth of agriculture, we distinguish four main orientations of agricultural growth: local food, high resource-technology driven, guided technology driven, and right-to-food growth orientations. Given the social and environmental challenges that agricultural growth has to meet in Cameroon, we argue that the local food orientation and guided technology-driven orientation offer better opportunities for meeting the problem of food security in this country. Full article
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Editorial
The Human Document Project and Challenges
by Andreas Manz
Challenges 2010, 1(1), 3-4; https://doi.org/10.3390/challe1010003 - 20 Jul 2010
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Literature, newspapers or science use the internet, paper and written language for documenting their contents and transmitting it to the readers. The time scale for this is typically a human generation or can be much less. Technically speaking, printed paper, as such, will [...] Read more.
Literature, newspapers or science use the internet, paper and written language for documenting their contents and transmitting it to the readers. The time scale for this is typically a human generation or can be much less. Technically speaking, printed paper, as such, will not necessarily survive very much longer. The computerized modern world has boosted the storage and accessibility of much more information. However, this has not improved the survival time scale [1]. [...] Full article
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Challenges – An Open Access Scientific Journal for Research Proposals and Open Problems
by Shu-Kun Lin
Challenges 2010, 1(1), 1-2; https://doi.org/10.3390/challe1010001 - 01 Feb 2010
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One of the unique features of several journals launched by me is that manuscripts regarding research proposals and research ideas are particularly welcomed for presentation. Now, a journal Challenges is created for this purpose. [...] Full article
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