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Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

open access: yesAmerican 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
wiley   +1 more source

Making Claims for Migrant Workers: Human Rights and Citizenship [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Migrant workers claims for greater protection in a globalized world are typically expressed either in the idiom of international human rights or citizenship.
Judy Fudge, Fudge, Judy
core   +1 more source

Migration and Citizenship [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Citizenship is frequently invoked both as an instrument and goal of immigrant integration. Yet, in migration contexts, citizenship also marks a distinction between members and outsiders based on their different relations to particular states. A migration

core   +3 more sources

Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

open access: yesAmerican 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
wiley   +1 more source

Shapeshifting Citizenship in Germany: Expansion, Erosion and Extension [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Faist T. Shapeshifting Citizenship in Germany: Expansion, Erosion and Extension. COMCAD Arbeitspapiere - Working papers, 115.
Faist, Thomas
core   +1 more source

Teaching Sustainability: Educational Approaches in Light of Sustainability Science

open access: yesEducation Sciences
In the face of intensifying socio-ecological crises, there is a growing debate about how processes of societal transformation can be shaped. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), particularly in its transformative orientation (ESD 3), is widely ...
Maria Budmiger   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Values of Local Wisdom of Minangkabau Culture in a Baralek Gadang Traditional Wedding

open access: yesHumaniora, 2020
The research aimed to (1) describe the traditional Minangkabau Baralek Gadang marriage; (2) analyze the procedures for the Minangkabau traditional wedding ceremony Baralek Gadang; (3) analyze the values of local wisdom in the traditional Minangkabau ...
Helzi Ramanta, Samsuri Samsuri
doaj   +1 more source

Food insecurity and unemployment among immigrants in the United States

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Immigrants can be more vulnerable to economic downturns and, during periods of economic hardship, more likely to experience food insecurity compared to natives. This study examines the differential effect of the unemployment rate on the probability of being food insecure among diverse groups of immigrant households relative to natives in the ...
Siwen Zhou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“I have some wishes, which are actually demands.” A qualitative mixed methods study on the impact of consumerism on the therapeutic relationship in mental healthcare

open access: yesFrontiers in Health Services
IntroductionAlongside the logic of care, many Western welfare states have introduced market elements or a logic of choice in their healthcare systems, which has led to consumerist behavior in patients.
L. T. E. Krikken Mulders   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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