Occelli, Martina
Mantino, Alberto
Ragaglini, Giorgio
Dell’Acqua, Matteo
Fadda, Carlo
Pè, Mario Enrico
Nuvolari, Alessandro
Article History
Accepted: 18 November 2020
First Online: 11 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This study has been funded and endorsed by the Barilla Centre for Food and Nutrition, with the BCFN!YES Award 2018. This study was possible with the contribution of CGIAR program on Water, Land and Ecosystem (WLE) which is carried out with support from the CGIAR Trust Fund and through bilateral funding agreements. For details please visitExternalRef removed. The views expressed in this document cannot be taken to reflect the official opinions of these organizations.
: The study is not clinical and human participants are only required to answer some questions aimed at analyzing the impact that traditional knowledge has on soil management ability of smallholder farmers in marginal areas. Therefore, approval of such a specific protocol from an ethical committee is not binding under the current legal framework, as declared by the Data Protection Officer at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies. The researchers were committed to the Ethics Code on data processing for statistics and scientific research purposes issued by the Italian Data Protection Authority under article 20 Legislative Decree 101/2018.Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: Martina Occelli has received BCFN!YES Award 2018 from the Barilla Centre for Food and Nutrition.Alberto Mantino, Giorgio Ragaglini, Matteo Dell’Acqua, Carlo Fadda, Mario Enrico Pè, and Alessandro Nuvolari declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Conceptualization: M.O, A.M, G.R, M.D., C.F, M.E.P, and A.N; Methodology: M.O, A.M, G.R., and A.N; Investigation: M.O in the field; Formal analysis: M.O, A.M, and G.R; Writing: M.O, A.M, G.R, M.D., C.F, M.E.P, and A.N; Supervision: M.E.P and A.N; Funding acquisition: M.O, M.E.P, G.R, and A.N.