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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Child Domestic Work, Violence, and Health Outcomes: A Rapid Systematic Review. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Environ Res Public Health, 2021
Thi AM   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reproductive labor, social vulnerability, and female aging: a scoping review

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
IntroductionReproductive labor, essential to social and biological maintenance, has historically been performed by women, often under conditions of social vulnerability and without formal recognition.
Paulo Henrique Souza Roberto   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Efficiency and Technology Gap in European Apple Production—A Metafrontier Model for Germany, Italy, and Poland

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
wiley   +1 more source

Alexandra Kollontaï: Stato comunista e liberazione femminile

open access: yesDiacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2018
In this article one of the most important yet least examined protagonists of the October revolution, Alexandra Kollontaï, will be introduced. She was the only woman in Lenin’s government and her reforms modified structures of female subordination, dating
Martina Ricci è attualmente studentessa del corso di Laurea Magistrale in Scienze Storiche presso l’Università di Bologna, con indirizzo storia contemporanea. Laureata in Relazioni Internazionali presso l’Università di Ginevra s’interessa particolarmente di teoria femminista e di storia delle donne. Ha conseguito una tesi sui femminismi turchi dal titolo: Femmes, Etat e société dans la Turquie contemporaine.
doaj  

Work, Domestic Work, Emotional Labor

open access: yes, 2017
The concept of work can be understood as a purposeful human activity, which is focused on the processing of natural goods, items and/or information by using tools to meet tangible and intangible needs. Work is the usage of instruments to support the existence of humankind and the social world.
openaire   +4 more sources

Migrant Women's Health and Safety: Why Do Ethiopian Women Choose Irregular Migration to the Middle East for Domestic Work? [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Environ Res Public Health, 2022
Shewamene Z   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley   +1 more source

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