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Māori farming trusts - A preliminary scoping investigation into the governance and management of large dairy farm businesses. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This preliminary scoping study investigates areas for possible improvement in the governance and management of large Māori dairy farm businesses. Building on the innovative practices of their tūpuna – including Rawiri Taiwhanga, the country’s first ...
Lythberg, Billie   +2 more
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Causal analysis of trade loss from pathogens: A global study of foot and mouth disease impacts on meat exports

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Our general interest is in global trade loss from livestock pathogens, specifically exports. We adopt a causal inference approach that considers animal disease outbreaks over time as non‐staggered binary treatments with the potential for switching in (infection) and out of treatment (recovery) within the sample period. The outcome evolution of
Mohammad Maksudur Rahman   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of institutional diversity on unions and NGO's efforts to represent and articulate farm workers' grievances: case study of the 2012 Western Cape farm workers strike and protest action [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Following a disconcerting pattern in South Africa's recent labour history, a violent strike and protests gripped the De Doorns area in the Hex Valley River Valley of Western Cape Province in the late months of 2012 and early 2013.
Zvoutete, Jackie Tatenda
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Differences in cynomolgus macaque populations used for infectious disease research

open access: yesAnimal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
Cynomolgus macaques, a species of Old World primate native to southeastern and eastern Asia and the island of Mauritius, are one of the most important nonhuman primate models for infectious disease. Research into the population genetics of cynomolgus macaques has found significant differences between macaques native to different areas, particularly ...
Darcy Quist   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Socio-Cultural Worldview of Soviet Collective Farmers in Mid-1930s as Reported by Students of Sverdlov Communist Agricultural University

open access: yesСибСкрипт
The mentality of Russian peasants underwent a fundamental transformation during the late collectivization. These changes were reflected in reports made by students of the Moscow All-Union Communist Agricultural University in 1934–1936 during their annual
Nikita V. Tikhomirov
doaj   +1 more source

Agricultural Cooperative Enterprise in the Transition from Socialist Collective Farming [PDF]

open access: yes
Cooperative enterprise has appeal as a means of filling gaps in the economic institutions of the rural sectors of the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. But in addition to problems that have faced cooperatives
Gardner, Bruce L., Lerman, Zvi
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Syngenta AG – Tracking Report – Maharashtra India Tomato Seeds; January 25 – 29, 2011 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Fair Labor Association
core   +1 more source

Design and Optimization of a Novel Kalina‐Organic Rankine Cycle System Based on LNG Cold Energy Utilization

open access: yesAsia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study proposes a novel integrated system (SDKC‐DORC) that combines a split‐flow dual‐pressure Kalina cycle with a secondary organic Rankine cycle for the synergistic utilization of solar energy and liquefied natural gas (LNG) cold energy.
Ke Xiao   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Meat production in the individual and public sectors of agriculture in the Urals in 1946–1965

open access: yesИзвестия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Гуманитарные науки
Backround. The undoubted relevance of the problem stated in the title of the arti-cle lies in the weak degree of its research. The purpose of the study was to analyze the dy-namics of meat production on collective and state farms, as well as in the ...
Vladimir N. Mamyachenkov   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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