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

open access: yesApplied 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

Fall 2017 - HIPS Newsletter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cahss_hips_newsletter/1004/thumbnail ...
Department of History and Political Science
core   +1 more source

The History of Political Science in Slovenia

open access: yesAnali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva, 2008
Political science in Slovenia has started its development as part of legal studies.The first book that can be considered political science literature is “Ocrt povijesti političkih ideja” by Joža Goričar.
Igor Lukšić
doaj  

Accounting for Substitution: Improving Estimates of GHG Reductions From Cattle‐Based Product Demand Shifts

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Estimates of reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from lower demand for cattle‐based products must account for substitution effects. This study collected data through two surveys—one on ground beef and another on dairy milk—to evaluate substitution effects and potential GHG reductions.
Brandon R. McFadden   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Winter 2017 - HIPS Newsletter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cahss_hips_newsletter/1003/thumbnail ...
Department of History and Political Science
core   +1 more source

Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
wiley   +1 more source

The politics of historical economics: Wilhelm Roscher on democracy, socialism and Caesarism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Wilhelm Friedrich Georg Roscher (1817-94) is generally remembered as a significant nineteenth-century German political economist and a contributor to the “German Historical School of Economics.” His work is usually placed in the context of a larger ...
McDaniel, Iain
core   +1 more source

Linking Employee Green Behaviour and Organizational Effectiveness for Sustainable Development: A Conceptual Review of Public Sector Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

open access: yesJournal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
This conceptual piece examines how Employee Green Behaviour (EGB), Green Human Resource Management (GHRM), and their combined effect on organizational efficiency contribute to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the public sector in ...
Emmanuel Asumadu Agyemang   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two houses: legislative studies and the Atlantic divide [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Legislative scholars have a history of stepping back occasionally to examine the development and state of the sub-discipline (Budge 1973; Gamm and Huber 2002; Loewenberg, Patterson, and Jewell 1985; Mezey 1993; Morris-Jones 1983; Pasquino 1973; Patterson
Martin, Shane G.
core   +1 more source

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