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Does a Specialized Niche Market Vegetable Processor Enjoy Bargaining Power?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agribusiness companies may achieve competitive advantage through specialization within niche markets. One such niche is the fresh‐cut fruit and vegetable market, which has been steadily growing in Germany. This study examines whether the specialization of a German fresh‐cut producer grants it with market power within this niche market.
Nikolas Bublik, Franziska Mittag, Laura Hellstern, Sebastian Hess   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Valuation of soil-mediated contributions to people (SmCPs) – a systematic review of values and methods

Ecosystems and People
Soils have the capacity to contribute to human wellbeing through a variety of pathways. Preserving these contributions in light of human and climate-induced changes requires consideration of the numerous benefits – both in research and policy-making ...
Daniel Johnson, Katja Schmidt, Charlott Scholz, Lena Chowdhury, Alexandra Dehnhardt   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developing indicators for promoting provincial-level ecological economics in China. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2023
Han B, Li H, Tang C, Ren W, Lv Z, Xue B.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Role of Certifications in Improving Household Food Security Among Peruvian Farmers

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving global food security requires sustainable transformations in agri‐food systems. Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) such as Organic and Fairtrade aim to internalize certain social and environmental costs while promoting more equitable value distribution, improved market access, and sustainable production practices.
Lisa‐Marie Schulte, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Titanic lessons for Spaceship Earth to account for human behavior in institutional design

npj Climate Action
Combating environmental degradation requires global cooperation. We here argue that institutional designs for such efforts need to account for human behavior.
Therese Lindahl, John M. Anderies, Anne-Sophie Crépin, Krisztina Jónás, Caroline Schill, Juan Camilo Cárdenas, Carl Folke, Gert Jan Hofstede, Marco A. Janssen, Jean-Denis Mathias, Stephen Polasky   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

On the usefulness of ecosystem services evaluations

Pirineos: Revista de Ecología de Montaña, 1997
Un artículo polémico escrito por COSTANZA et al., publicado en Nature el pasado año, ha provocado un intenso debate sobre el potencial y la conveniencia de realizar valoraciones económicas de las funciones o beneficios proporcionados por los ecosistemas.
J. A. Belmontes, A. López Pintor, M. A. Rodríguez, A. Gómez-Sal   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The institutional context of rationality [PDF]

, 2017
In the last three decades, mainstream economics has been influenced by authors associated with new institutional economics and new behavioral economics.
Godłów-Legiędź, Janina
core   +1 more source

Ecosystem Services of Tropical Dry Forests: Insights from Long-term Ecological and Social Research on the Pacific Coast of Mexico

Ecology and Society, 2005
In the search for an integrated understanding of the relationships among productive activities, human well-being, and ecosystem functioning, we evaluated the services delivered by a tropical dry forest (TDF) ecosystem in the Chamela Region, on the ...
J. Manuel Maass, Patricia Balvanera, Alicia Castillo, Gretchen C. Daily, Harold A. Mooney, Paul Ehrlich, Mauricio Quesada, Alvaro Miranda, Victor J. Jaramillo, Felipe García-Oliva, Angelina Martínez-Yrizar, Helena Cotler, Jorge López-Blanco, Alfredo Pérez-Jiménez, Alberto Búrquez, Clara Tinoco, Gerardo Ceballos, Laura Barraza, Ricardo Ayala, José Sarukhán   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

An entrepreneurial model of economic and environmental co-evolution [PDF]

A basic tenet of ecological economics is that economic growth and development are ultimately constrained by environmental carrying capacities. It is from this basis that notions of a sustainable economy and of sustainable economic development emerge to ...
Anna Straton, Jason Potts, John Foster
core  

The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe, Judith Bessant, Madeline Drake   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source