Brazilian dry-beans and food security in developing countries

Abstract

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Barriers and enablers to food mass customization

“…Based on Brazil's prominent position in global food production (Botti Abbade and Dewes, 2014), the goal of the present study is to propose a procedure to support decisions on which enablers should be implemented to minimize the barriers effect to food MC. Firstly, to identify the barriers and enablers already recorded by literature, we carried a thorough review.…”