American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar +2 more
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Psychoacoustic characteristics of tinnitus in temporomandibular disorders: a systematic review. [PDF]
CodasPicinini TA +5 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen +5 more
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Wasserstein distributional distance and linear programming convergence planning as monitoring network benchmarking tools: cross-continental surface water quality assessment across Brazilian and European river basins. [PDF]
Environ Monit AssessPimentel Tavares H, de Souza Sampaio NA.
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Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang +3 more
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Satellite DNA evolution in Tytonidae (Aves: Strigiformes): dynamic repeat landscapes despite conserved karyotypes. [PDF]
Chromosome ResBitencourt FL +10 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra +3 more
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The international Red Cross and nurses in the context of the Brazilian press (1864-1907). [PDF]
Rev Esc Enferm USPMazziero AS +4 more
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Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich +4 more
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In water, no one can hear you scream: a new species of parasitic isopod from the genus Zeuxokoma Grygier, 1993 (Isopoda: Epicaridea, Cryptoniscidae) infesting a snapping-shrimp (Caridea, Alpheidae) from Brazil. [PDF]
Syst ParasitolHorch AP, Moraes IRR, Terossi M.
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