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Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich, Tim Ölkers, Vanessa Bonke, Oliver Musshoff   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genderly: a data-centric gender bias detection system

Complex & Intelligent Systems
Language shapes our thoughts and perceptions, influencing concepts like gender roles. Biased language has personal and societal consequences, enforcing exclusion, affecting labor force participation, reinforcing stereotypes, and deepening social ...
Wael Khreich, Jad Doughman
doaj   +1 more source

Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia, John Olwande, Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert, David L. Mather, Nicole M. Mason   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

GENDER-INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE USAGE IN ACADEMIA: EXPLORING PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS' PERSPECTIVES

Issues in Language Studies
The utilisation of gender-inclusive language, aimed at promoting equal treatment between men and women, has sparked both positive and negative reactions in Spanish society. Consequently, it has evolved into an ideological issue that transcends linguistic boundaries.
Lidia Mañoso-Pacheco, Roberto Sánchez-Cabrero   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross, Wesley M. Zebrowski, Julia C. D. Valliant   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Real‐World Treatment and Outcomes in Resectable Early‐Stage Non‐Small Cell Cancer: THASSOS‐INTL Australia Cohort

AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
Australia cohort of THASSOS‐INTL; non‐interventional, multicenter, retrospective study provides insights into treatment patterns and associated survival outcomes in patients with resectable stage I‐III NSCLC in the pre‐immunotherapy era. Neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapy was reported in < 10% and < 40% patients, respectively.
Pei Ding, Kevin Jasas, Victoria Bray, Abhijit Pal, Rebecca Moor   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the muddy waters of the research into single sex class-rooms in co-educational middle years settings. [PDF]

, 2012
Establishing single sex classes within co-educational sites is an option that schools are again exploring. To date Australia has experienced three waves of interest in establishing single sex classes, the first focused on equitable education ...
Leanne, Crosswell, lisahunter
core   +1 more source

Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen, Leon Englberger, Jens Rommel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching for Social Justice: Incorporating Gender-Inclusive Language in World Language Classrooms

L2 Journal
From the perspective of two instructors of Chinese in US postsecondary education, this article provides insights into integrating social justice education in intermediate-level world language classrooms. Guided by the multiliteracies pedagogy framework for language education (Paesani et al., 2023) and the Center for Advanced Research on Language ...
Charlize Hsiang-Ling Wang, Hsiang-Lin Shih   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source