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Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
wiley   +1 more source

Imputation of Multi-Dimensional High-Frequency Climate Data to Predict Air and Surface Temperatures in Kuwait

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Missing values may arise in climate data collection due to sensor malfunction, transmission errors, device calibration and operational issues. This problem can be more catastrophic in the case of multi-dimensional and high-frequency climate data sets ...
Shehroz S. Khan, Rami Al-Hajj
doaj   +1 more source

Mexican Anthropology and Inter-American Knowledge

Latin American Research Review, 2018
This essay contributes to a fuller understanding of the history and future of area studies by tracing Latin American studies back to the early twentieth century, when it took form within academic disciplines that sought to contribute to state policy ...
Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt
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“The Good Neighbor’’ Policy and the Beginnings of Its Use in the Cinema of the ’30 [PDF]

, 2021
Marius Adrian Scheianu
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The War on Terror is Over--Now What? Restoring the Four Freedoms as a Foundation for Peace and Security [PDF]

, 2009
This article observes that the Global War on Terror as an organizing concept has been abandoned and proposes that the Obama Administration restore FDR\u27s Four Freedoms in its ...
Shulman, Mark R.
core   +1 more source

The Role of Social Food Infrastructure in Addressing SNAP Participation Gaps: Evidence From Linked Administrative and Ground‐Sourced Data

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We link American Community Survey and SNAP records for 185,000 units with ground‐sourced social food infrastructure data from FindFoodIL (Illinois Extension SNAP‐Ed) to examine SNAP participation determinants among eligible units. Bivariate probit models reveal, beyond SNAP offices, quantity of social infrastructure is associated with ...
Michael Lotspeich‐Yadao, Caitlin Kownacki, Jennifer McCaffrey, Craig Wesley Carpenter   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic impact of farmer-driven vertical integration: the case of safe vegetable chains in northern Vietnam [PDF]

, 2011
The paper investigates the respective profitability of contractual arrangements, direct sales and spot marketing for "safe vegetable"? farmers in northern Vietnam.
Moustier, Paule, Thi Tan Loc, Nguyen, Wang, Huaiyu   +2 more
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How Damage Diversification Can Reduce Systemic Risk

, 2015
We consider the problem of risk diversification in complex networks. Nodes represent e.g. financial actors, whereas weighted links represent e.g. financial obligations (credits/debts).
A. Garas, Antonios Garas, F. Schweitzer, Frank Schweitzer, G. Caldarelli, J. E. Stiglitz, M. E. J. Newman, P. Erdos, R. Cohen, R. Cont, Rebekka Burkholz   +10 more
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Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava, Jung Sun Lee, Travis A. Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Good Neighbor Diplomacy: United States Policies in Latin America, 1933–1945 [PDF]

, 1981
Bryce Wood
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