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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Habitat International, 2019 Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are undergoing massive spatial transformation owing to rapid urbanization. For many cities in the Global North, Latin America and Asia, spatial transformation has been traditionally characterised by a shift from monocentric ...
Felix S K Agyemang +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang +3 more
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Ecological IndicatorsAccess to urban green spaces is a critical element of sustainable and equitable cities. However, most existing studies have primarily focused on socioeconomic inequality in green space accessibility, while the role of natural geographic constraints—such ...
Luyao Wang +3 more
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Urban geography in the era of globalization: the cities of the future Emerging knowledge and urban regulations [PDF]
Geographica Helvetica, 2012 Da Cunha, Antonio +5 more
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Demolition for development : a critical analysis of official urban imaginaries in past and present UK cities [PDF]
, 2011 This article analyses official urban imaginaries of "demolition for development" in two different UK cities and time periods: 1) the City Improvement Scheme in Birmingham (1875–1914) during a time of rapid industrial growth, and 2) a housing-led ...
ALICE MAH, Mah, Alice
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe +2 more
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Digital Geography and Society, 2022 Cities are a conducive context for the emergence of digital platforms and at the same time cities are reshaped by the digital spaces that are created by these platforms.
Letizia Chiappini, Jochem de Vries
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Original innovation, learnt innovation and cities : evidence from UK SMEs [PDF]
, 2013 One of the key benefits of cities is that they allow the exchange of knowledge and information between economic actors. This may have two effects: it may create the conditions for entirely new innovations to emerge; and, it may allow firms to learn ...
Lee, Neil, Rodriguez-Pose, Andres
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