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Depuis 2017, les prix des matériaux de construction ont connu une série de crises à l’échelle mondiale. Ces crises sont dues à des facteurs tels que la reprise rapide de l’économie mondiale, la hausse des prix de l’énergie et les conflits géopolitiques. En conséquence, les coûts pour les entreprises de construction ont augmenté très significativement. La République Démocratique du Congo offre des opportunités d’investissements et se trouve à la croisée des chemins menant vers la mise en place des grands projets et la réalisation de ces projets nécessite la mobilisation et l’utilisation accrue des matériaux de construction, en général et le ciment, en particulier. En effet, l’utilisation accrue du ciment génère un business dont l’exploitation des carrières de sable, gravier, moellon, amiante ainsi que le transport des matériaux, créent des emplois et fait booster l’économie. A ce titre, le cout de revient du ciment constitue un enjeu majeur dans le développement et la croissance de l’économie congolaise, d’où une bonne analyse et maitrise des déterminants du ciment par les entreprises leur permettra d’être compétitif et faire face à la concurrence. Pour les consommateurs, il ne faudrait pas que le coût de revient du ciment puisse peser sur son vécu quotidien, à l’opposé si le coût est trop bas, cette situation ferait à ce que les entreprises ne réalisent pas de profit et par conséquent elles n’auront pas un avantage concurrentiel. Quand bien même que l’usage du ciment comme matériaux de construction a des avantages cependant, le processus de sa production contribue à l’émission de gaz à effet de Serre. C’est à ce niveau que constitue le défi à relever, et donc les chercheurs devraient se focaliser de sorte que l’industrie du ciment ne soit pas le gros émetteur de CO2 et des impacts environnementaux considérables ; il en va de soi pour la survie de la planète. Cet article vise mettre en relief l’impact des matériaux de construction, en général et du ciment, en particulier, sur l’écologie.

La disponibilité des médicaments pour les urgences cardiovasculaires permet une prise en charge adéquate des patients. Cette étude avait pour objectif d’évaluer le profil de consommation des médicaments au service des urgences de l’Institut de Cardiologie d’Abidjan dans le but de les rendre disponibles à la pharmacie dudit institut. Notre étude était rétrospective et descriptive. Elle a permis de catégoriser les médicaments prescrits aux urgences de l’Institut de Cardiologie d’Abidjan d’Août 2022 à Avril 2023. Recueillies à l’aide d’une fiche d’enquête, les données récoltées par le biais des ordonnances comprenaient des informations sur la classification ATC des médicaments, la dénomination commune internationale, la dose journalière et le nombre de prises journalières. Les résultats ont été exprimés sous forme de moyenne et de fréquence relative. A partir des 1205 ordonnances collectées destinées à 1008 patients, nous avons noté que chaque patient recevait en moyenne 1,19 ordonnances par jour contenant en moyenne 3,08 lignes de prescriptions par ordonnances. Sept (7) classes ATC ont été identifiées dont les principales étaient les médicaments du système cardiovasculaire (54%), les médicaments du sang (14%) et les médicaments anti-infectieux à usage systémique (13%). Les usages de ces classes étaient justifiés aux urgences de l’Institut de Cardiologie d’Abidjan. Les doses et prises moyennes journalières étaient conformes aux recommandations du Vidal 2022®. La classe des médicaments du système cardiovasculaires ainsi que d’autres classes ont été identifiées comme essentielles au bon fonctionnement des urgences de l’Institut de Cardiologie d’Abidjan.

Cet article nous plonge dans un passé exceptionnel avec la question de la consommation du sucre de 1925 à 1959. Ce travail présente un panorama du produit lui-même et de ses consommateurs. Il est important de signaler que le sucre n’était pas dans les habitudes alimentaires des congolais. Mais, il a été imposé par le colonisateur. Comme conséquence, les congolais souffrent des maladies qui n’étaient programmées dans leur système vital. Le sucre consommé au Congo belge fut de deux sources. La première est d’importation et la deuxième est de la production locale qui intervint qu’en 1929. Il sied de signaler ici que la vision du capitaliste était que le Congo soit une terre d’exploitation et non de consommation de ce produit. Cependant, avec le bouleversement mondial, la guerre, et certaines crises européennes ainsi que la montée en puissance de la population congolaise, le Congo belge devint une terre de consommation du sucre. Les premiers consommateurs sont ceux que nous avions appelés, consommateurs intermédiaires. Ceux-ci, sont des entreprises manufacturières. Les deuxièmes grands consommateurs sont la population blanche installée au Congo belge. A l’époque coloniale, elle était de toutes les nationalités, spécialement, les américains, les belges, les anglais, les grecs, les portugais, les hollandais, les chypriotes, etc. Leur présence sur toute l’étendue de la colonie dessine la cartographie du circuit du sucre au pays. Le sucre fit son entrée de manière générale dans l’alimentation des congolais que vers les années cinquante.

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La présente étude axée sur les aspects fiscaux dans la lutte anti-tabac en République Démocratique du Congo, se focalise sur les dispositions de la réduction de la demande prévue dans la Convention Cadre anti-tabac de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé qui sont contenues dans les articles 6-14. Les prix et les mesures de taxation pour réduire la demande de tabac.

Private home dining (PHD) is gaining popularity around the world. The PHD is an example of a sharing economy in which guests enter the homes of amateur chefs for a shared experiential meal. This paper explores the social and spatial dimensions of PHD in Singapore from the perspectives of hosts and guests. For the hosts, PHD events mean opening their home to the public and in the process, taking on new roles as cook, guide and cultural ambassador. From the guests' perspective, dining in a novel environment brings new experiences, exposing them to new people, knowledge and skills. A mixed-methods approach comprising mainly interviews and participant observations was adopted in this research. The findings reveal that PHD transforms home spaces yet retains the essence of home; compels members of a household to perform multiple roles simultaneously; facilitates the process of home-making; and encourages guests to actively engage as co-producers of their own cultural and culinary experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The legalization of gambling and cannabis and the transformation of these practices/substances into consumer markets are processes of state legitimation, naturalization, and (re)formation in Canada. This article examines the moral-cultural transformation of gambling and cannabis over the last 50 years and analyzes these transformations in terms of state-culture dynamics. Where lotteries were legalized in the context of the welfare state, the expansion of gambling beyond lotteries in the 1990s has occurred as the federal state ceded jurisdiction of gambling to the provinces. The consequence has been the direct role of the provinces in the creation of gambling markets. Notwithstanding the monopolization of cannabis by some provinces, the opening of cannabis to private industry (e.g., sales) has occurred relatively quickly. In its central role in market making, the state, paradoxically, appears to disappear. However, the legalization and expansion of gambling and cannabis represent an increased positioning of the state at the nexus of civic and consumer cultures. State formation around consumption of gambling and cannabis centers on state entrepreneurialism and depends on retaining, yet reinventing, notions of harm with a shift from a generalized morality of nation and national spirit to individual risk calculation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to analyse how, during the period of 1937 to 1961, different Mexican governments used the cultural and ancestral dimension of maize, overcoming the controversies around its nutritional quality and utilising the benefits of agricultural research, to incentivise its production and consumption among the population, as well as its exportation to other countries, with the goal of turning it into a commodity that would incorporate the rural population into the national economy. For this reason, it was important to design campaigns to promote this grain in various media, seeking to exalt the idea of the ancestral food that was the basis of the Mexican diet and a symbol of Mexican culture. This analysis was constructed using contemporary newspapers and other publications of the period mentioned, as well as works that have addressed the topic of maize cultivation and consumption. The article seeks to deepen our understanding of the changes in the Mexican diet, the practices of production, and the sociocultural significance of maize as from the mid-twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Storage plays an important role in domestic practices as a banal yet essential means of practically accomplishing 'living together' and caring for people and material 'stuff'. However, storage and stored things also occupy a provocative and paradoxical place in debates around the sustainability of household consumption. Driven by renewed popular and scholarly attention to 'decluttering' and eschewing anything that does not 'spark joy', this paper considers the emotional and practical implications of generosity – as both concept and practice – in articulating the sustainability potential in storage and stored things. In so doing we problematise assumptions about 'clutter' as unsustainable. Drawing on vignettes from two projects concerned with material consumption in young adulthood, and drawing on – but going beyond – extant framings of geographies of care, we illustrate how shifting spatial and temporal ambivalences of storage mediate opportunities to engage in and with different scales of generosity. We argue that spatialities of storage are often less about deferring acts of divestment than they are a space in which to situate materialisations of significant emotional, care-ful(l) connections. We reflect on the implications of storage for sustainable consumption in the home and suggest how future work drawing on geographies of generosity might enrich our understanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the ways in which students from a Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) discipline at a Northern Urban English university narrate their decisions as they navigate their transition from degrees to their career futures. Contrary to the managerial expectations of universities and policy that students 'fill the STEM skills gap', the process through which students and graduates make decisions about their future trajectories includes responding to concerns brought about by personal and social factors of influence, one of which is place relating to their emotional relationship with past, present and future geographical location. This paper aims to make two inter-related arguments: Firstly, that geography can act as a determining, emotional factor of influence in the decision-making process of young people during the process of transitioning from their degrees. Secondly, the subsequent movement in spatial terms is an attempt to influence as well as construct their own futures, whether or not this is the 'right' decision. Employment futures of young people must take into account the ways in which this manifests to better understand the decision-making process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Sars-CoV-2 virus and the related public health measures have triggered a break in everyday life. Despite growing global protest movements against these health measures, 'solidarity' was called for by civil society groups, affected businesses, and politicians as an intuitive mode of action in this crisis. Writing from Germany, we explore how in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis a specific discourse of solidarity and locality blossomed; namely a call to solidarity-based consumption. Using documentary photography, we discuss the shifts in the attribution of meaning and discourses through which consumption has been framed by small-shop owners in Linden, Hannover, Germany. In the paper, we explore the local geographies of boycotting and specifically the ways calls for boycotting are articulated by shop owners in the neighbourhood. We find that these calls became entangled with a specific neighbourhood identity. Through our photographic documentation we also find that purchases at local stores are now framed as a necessary act of local support. Finally, we reflect on the limitations of consumption as a strategy to overcome crisis and express solidarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By proposing to approach African-Chinese relations through the lens of Chinese products, this special issue intends to reveal the many ways in which African agency manifests in globalization. Indeed, Africans are the leading actors in the arrival and dissemination of Chinese goods on the continent, challenging the purported omnipotence of Chinese actors. The focus on Chinese products also provides an innovative perspective on the transformation of contemporary African societies. The low price of Chinese-made goods has contributed to new consumption and business opportunities for many Africans. This has accompanied the continent's entry into mass consumption. Finally, this special issue raises the question of the management of extraversion. The development of new entrepreneurial activities carries with it a subversive potential that calls into question the historical domination of African and foreign cosmopolitan elites on an increasingly multipolar process of extraversion. On a broader level, it questions the hierarchies and power structures of many sectors that have been going through deep restructuring in the wake of the arrival of Chinese goods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Liberalizing the economy brought both social and economic complications to the lives of many Cameroonians and growing numbers of affordable commodities manufactured in China. Focusing on electronic devices (primarily mobile phones, computers, recording gadgets and solar kits), this article considers how these new private possessions have become integrated into existing practices of social representation and to what extent they have transformed the lives of Cameroonians. The article examines through whose agency these commodities arrived, the findings being based on interviews with travelling traders and consumers and upon observations on Cameroonian and Chinese markets in the 2010s. It highlights that African importers of Chinese-manufactured products carefully select and order supplies in China that are affordable and meet the tastes of local consumers. The availability of these goods enables Cameroonians to engage in the consumption of global commodities, heightening their sense of global connection, whilst also concurrently complicating the display of social hierarchies. The importation of these commodities also created business opportunities for numerous traders and service providers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the arrival of Chinese-made goods as one of the main vectors of African societies' entrance into mass consumption logics. However, it proposes going beyond the dominant monocausal approach, which only relates the consumption of these goods to their low price. To do so, this paper emphasizes a careful observation of consumer practices to unveil the complex process of 'domestication' that African consumers carry out on these goods daily (Sahlins, M. D. 1993. "Goodbye to Tristes Tropes: Ethnography in the Context of Modern World History." The Journal of Modern History 65 (1): 1–25; Warnier, J.-P. 1994. Le paradoxe de la marchandise authentique: Imaginaire et consommation de masse. Paris: L'Harmattan). To this end, we focus our attention on the case of Chinese motorcycles in Burkina Faso. Historically the most imported Chinese good in Burkina Faso, motorcycles are at the centre of a multitude of practices and social representations. After placing the arrival of these bikes in the historicity of the cyclo-distinction, this paper presents the many ways in which Chinese motorcycles – though less expensive – are socially and symbolically valued by Burkinabe consumers. Initially considered symbols of a new 'modernity', the aesthetic and technical characteristics of Chinese motorcycles gradually became a standard shared by all imported models. The multiplication of importers and models accompanied a growing complexity of symbolic values and distinction logics, in which the growing role of the 'new figures of success' (Banégas, R., and J.-P. Warnier. 2001. "Nouvelles figures de la réussite et du pouvoir." Politique Africaine 82 (2): 5–23) was expressed. In the context of mounting uncertainty surrounding the new distinctive codes and an acceleration of the symbolic obsolescence of motorcycles, 'novelty' became the new reference value and frequently replacing possessions a key element of social value, and therefore a central rule of distinction. Thus, a focus on the process of 'cultural appropriation' of Chinese goods allows us to distance ourselves from a financially captive interpretation of African consumption to unveil the social determinants of Africa's entry into mass consumption logics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Cet article étudie la relation existante entre protection sociale contributive, revenu transitoire et accès aux services sociaux de base en République Démocratique du Congo, cas des retraités affiliés à la Caisse Nationale de Sécurité Sociale. L'étude utilise la technique des moindres carrés ordinaires (MCO). Les tests usuels ont conclu que le modèle estimé est bon, puisque les hypothèses de moindres carrés ordinaires ont été minutieusement respectées. Les résultats du modèle retenu indiquent que : (i) les revenus disponibles de ménages ainsi que la pension de retraite ne couvrent pas totalement les dépenses de consommation, bien que les deux coefficients sont positifs, (ii) les revenus générés par les AGR ne couvrent pas totalement les dépenses de consommation, et présente un signe négatif, (iii) la taille de ménage n’impacte pas les dépenses de consommation, bien que le coefficient est positif. Cela peut être expliqué par des prestations sociales modiques, incomplètes, réduites en termes de couverture. D’où les ménages des retraités doivent recourir probablement à l'emprunt afin de faire face à leur consommation, et, solutions hors marchés comme le transfert entre ménages, une solidarité pouvant permettre à certains ménages de survivre.

Twenty-eight years after the Taylor Report into the Hillsborough disaster recommended that all football grounds in the top two divisions in England and Wales should become all-seated, the UK government, in 2018, announced a review into the safety of modern standing areas and whether developments in stadium safety might justify changing the all-seating legislation to permit Safe Standing. These events are the outcome of a 30-year social movement in which a critical mass of supporters, through the relational networks they formed, have built collective action. Drawing upon both archival and fieldwork research to analyse the longer-term impact which all-seated stadia have had on football supporters' consumption of the game in England, the article uses relational sociology to tell the story of the movement, and studies the working tactics and structure of a small network mobilizing across the political and discursive fields of contention post-Hillsborough. It argues that whilst now a more effective movement with technological and political capital, Safe Standing continues to raise important questions around the historical views on football fans as somehow deviant and reinforces the long-term impact and legacy of Hillsborough on supporters' modern cultural consumption of the game by moving within the parameters of the all-seating legislation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This theoretical essay deals with the imperative of happiness in contemporary times, contemplating the current historical moment of the pandemic crisis. Therefore, the interface between psychology and other areas of knowledge, such as social sciences, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, is sought for the necessary intelligibility to apprehend the study. Initially, we intended to carry out a brief review of the conceptions of happiness throughout history, reflecting on how cultural transformations allowed happiness to be shifted from the field of dreams to the duty one. Subsequently, it is proposed to address the place that happiness, transformed into an imperative, occupies in contemporary times, crossed by the neoliberal capitalist discourse and through the arguments of the consumption and performance society. Finally, it is suggested that contemporary social cartography, under the aegis of neoliberalism and its reflections on culture, focuses on subjectivation processes in the form of illness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La question traitée dans cet article porte sur le monde d’après la pandémie… Représente-t-elle un moment décisif qui va nous faire basculer vers une société plus responsable sur les plans sociaux et environnementaux ? De nouvelles habitudes et de nouveaux comportements responsables vont-ils se mettre en place de manière durable ? Pour répondre à ces enjeux, cet article mobilise des théories plurielles associées aux changements d’habitudes. Des préconisations s’adressant autant aux entreprises, qu’aux décideurs publics ou citoyens sont proposées pour dessiner les contours d’un après-Covid-19 socialement et écologiquement plus acceptable.

As India, a country with a complex relationship with cleanliness, modernizes rapidly, urban infrastructures are increasing even faster than the growing population. This paper explores the relationships between access to infrastructures, social mobility and resource consumption in everyday lives through the case of cleanliness in Mysore, Southern India. We draw on interviews with 28 Mysoreans about cleanliness perceptions and practices. Analysing cleanliness across class, caste and gender reveals that in the globalizing cleanliness cultures of Mysore those who are precarious and have less access to hygiene infrastructures, tend to have to clean more but don't resist expectations. We argue that, as cleanliness contours citizenship claims, the 'great unwashed' are excluded from participating in society. We question whether infrastructures and policies purported to increase the quality of life and provide basic human rights through increasing cleanliness, actually inadvertently contribute to deepening social stratification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents the narrative of vice-chief Meireles Karitiana, with the participation of chief-shaman Cizino Karitiana, who discusses the Karitiana people's origin myth, particularly in relation to the tension between God and Orá, his brother - a tension between good and evil. The paper describes what can be understood of ancestral life, and the value of connecting life and earth today, especially the forest. It highlights some aspects of the myth related particularly to consumption, domination, anthropocentricity, and the transcendent emergence of a third energy from the tension between the 'good' God and his 'bad' brother; this is related to Jungian thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Advancing an emergent scholarship on brands as having spatial and scalar effects, this paper examines the brand as an assemblage. In doing so, it focuses on youth engagement with the brandedness of motorbikes in the South Indian city of Chennai to examine in particular how brand assemblages shape gendered engagements with risk in Indian cities. Scooters and Motorbikes are important markers of 'youth' and middle classness in urban South Asia, representing freedom, mobility and fun. The Scooter has further been celebrated for putting women – literally and otherwise – in the driver's seat: creating the possibility for transgression and rebellion. This article complicates this narrative, by positioning scooters and motorbikes instead as sites upon which 'respectable' femininities are calibrated and articulated through young women's engagement with brands. In doing so, it unpacks the ways in which brand assemblages enliven the agency of commodities and participate in the disciplinary processes that shape gendered urban geographies of risk and respectability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An analysis of the account books of five different Lower Canadian country general stores between 1809 and 1867 shows that ordinary households had access to, and purchased, an increasingly wide range of groceries and other foodstuffs over the period. As in Upper Canada, grocery purchases were "routine – part of many families' culture," and some commodities may even have been mass consumed. Foodstuffs supplied by global trade networks coexisted with products of domestic manufactures. Foodstuffs consumption also displayed characteristics associated with the "consumer revolution" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as well as others usually deemed to have been part of the "mass consumption societies" of the twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines Canada's first internet gambling website blocking scheme, which was enacted in Quebec as part of the implementation of the province's 2015 budget. Using qualitative research methods, the article illustrates the complexities of regulating online gambling. Influenced by critical sociological and anthropological studies of gambling, and taking a socio-legal, governmentality perspective, it shows how socio-legal studies can illuminate research on the regulation of gambling, and how the study of online gambling can, as a sentinel site for the regulation of online consumption, contribute to the development of socio-legal studies. Our analysis shows that the governmentality of online gambling is framed so as to exclude 1) a range of risks (e.g., related to consumer profiling and the capacity to stimulate "addictive consumption"), 2) the heterogeneity of everyday experience that connects online gambling with online addictive consumption more generally, and 3) a range of possibilities for governing online gambling otherwise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pendant plus de 25 ans, la romancière et journaliste belge France Adine travailla à éclairer des dizaines de milliers de femmes sur la meilleure manière de construire et de pérenniser leur couple et leur famille. Elle prodigua ses conseils dans ses chroniques hebdomadaires dans le magazine belgo-français Femmes d’aujourd’hui et dans ses romans sentimentaux historiques. L’analyse croisée de ses textes, de leur support et de leur réception permet de mettre au jour l’habileté de l’écrivaine-journaliste à s’approprier des genres différents. Dans ses articles et ses textes littéraires, elle élève l’amour et l’art au rang de valeurs capables de combler les fractures sociales, au niveau intime de la conjugalité, comme au niveau plus large d’une société. Ce socle idéologique est en quelque sorte décliné dans deux espaces-temps : l’ici et maintenant dans Femmes d’aujourd’hui, le passé sublimé dans les romans sentimentaux. Le magazine, qui fait la publicité des romans et façonne l’autorité morale de France Adine, sert de courroie de transition entre ces deux logiques.

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This study critically examines how development interventions are imagined for singular places and subjects through a political process of product scripting that reconfigures the socio-technical meaning of second-hand objects from unwanted commodities to solutions that are appropriate for sub-Saharan Africa. Tracing the flow of second-hand goods demonstrates how development subjects are imagined to be adult, economically productive, rural beings. The paper finds that the second-hand mountain bicycle is inserted into an imagined place with a predetermined purpose that does not attend to alternative and heterogeneous urban and rural identities and needs. The paper highlights the compromises undertaken in designing development interventions as they are entangled with processes of waste recycling, commodification and philanthropy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many cities have tried to reinvent themselves, but what role can new material and symbolic traditions play in urban transformations? Here we interrogate how ideology can be spread through a new tactile motif. Geographical work has focused on state-led, event and architecture-based development projects that drive change in the city. We suggest that the aesthetic, the sensory and the behavioural can also be fields through which urban change is driven. In Lisbon the sardine has emerged as a moniker for the city. An informal coalition of state and non-state interests have deployed the sardine to interpellate urban subjectivity, effecting processes of consumption and specifically touristification in the city. Building on the idea of interpellation we argue that both sardine symbols and actual sardines have hailed subjects in the city and the behaviours of residents and tourists have modified in response. Although the sardine is not the prime mover in urban transformation, our fieldwork shows how the affects of a new icon produce effects through invented traditions, street festivals and the tourist economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La croissance rapide du cheptel mondial de dromadaires et de chameaux vise notamment à répondre à une demande croissante en lait de chamelle. Nous analysons ces mutations en étudiant le commerce en ligne, apparu récemment, de produits issus de lait de chamelle. Cette étude souligne l’émergence d’acteurs investis dans la production intensive de lait de chamelle, mais aussi dans le commerce de lait en poudre, de lait fermenté et de fromages. Ces nouveaux entrepreneurs du lait de chamelle sont implantés pour une bonne partie dans des pays dépourvus d’élevages camelins, notamment en Europe, aux Etats-Unis, au Canada et dans plusieurs pays émergents. Les prix du lait vendu par internet sont extrêmement variables, soulignant que ce marché est en cours de construction. L’émergence de ce commerce reflète une dynamique d’innovation duale. A cette économie laitière entrepreneuriale basée sur des échanges entre des fermes d’élevage intensif et des consommateurs éloignés s’oppose en effet une économie laitière de proximité basée sur le commerce périurbain de lait frais fortement corrélé aux systèmes pastoraux. Nous concluons sur des pistes de recherche et de développement pour rendre le commerce numérique de lait de chamelle plus inclusif.

Bread and wine remain staple foods in almost every locality in the world. The bread appeared around 3000 BC. From time immemorial essential and basic food, bread has undergone a long evolution to arrive at its current form. First consumed in the form of cereal porridge, bread has undeniably influenced the way of life and the process of human evolution. It is the symbol of work and of the existence of man. Wheat or corn, the bread cake remains today the main food of hundreds of millions of people in America, North Africa and the Middle East (PFEDA, 1997). The article is the result of a study that examined the symbolism of bread and wine in the Christian religion. The study looked specifically at Christians who drink bread and wine in Christian communities in Korhogo. The study provided an opportunity to study and understand religious beliefs and Christian practices relating to the consumption of bread and wine. We retain that the search for social and spiritual balance explains the behavior of Christians regarding the use of bread and wine. Likewise, the consumption of these foods symbolizes the physical and spiritual needs, which the Christian seeks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A child's age of discernment means that his or her financial actions, including the purchase or consumption, are governed by certain rules requiring some detail. When the child reaches the age of majority, he or she has the mental faculties and capacity to act that allow him or her to undertake all lawful actions, whether beneficial or harmful or somewhere in between, without any permission or authorisation from anyone. Therefore, the child's behaviour when he reaches the age of discernment is divided into three types: purely beneficial, completely harmful or in between and each of them has a special rule that needs to be elaborated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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