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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
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Estimation of Import Demand Functions of Two Key Food and Feed Commodities (Corn and Soybean) for India

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The derived demand for the increased demand for meat and dairy products is clearly observed in the fast‐paced growth of the Indian feed industry and its increased demand for agricultural commodities (e.g., corn, soybean, rice, wheat, broken rice, millet, etc.) as feed ingredients.
Dwiti Baruah Thapa   +2 more
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Domestic and External Drivers of Brazilian Pork Price Volatility Under Russian Trade Policies

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how Russian trade policies and domestic factors influence the volatility of Brazilian live swine prices from 2004 to 2019. We employ a DCC‐MGARCH framework, along with volatility impulse‐response functions and the connectedness approach, to analyze time‐varying co‐movement and dynamic volatility spillovers across pork ...
Gabriel Rosero   +2 more
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Drought Exposure and Dynamic Input Adjustment in North Central U.S. Agriculture

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ABSTRACT This article examines whether realized extreme drought episodes affect the speed of adjustment of derived input demands and output supplies toward their long‐run equilibrium in U.S. agriculture, focusing on states in the North Central Region.
Victor H. Lana Pinto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Current Status and Future Perspectives of Robotic Surgery for Esophagogastric Cancer in Asia

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Robotic‐assisted surgery (RAS) has moved from an experimental adjunct to an increasingly established component of gastrointestinal (GI) oncological practice in parts of Asia, a region that carries a disproportionately high burden of gastric and esophageal cancer. Asian surgeons have been among the earliest and most prolific contributors to the
Jia Jun Ang, Jimmy Bok Yan So
wiley   +1 more source
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Human capital

IEEE Software, 1998
The original publication of Peopleware was a watershed event. With this influential track record, the new revision of Peopleware is likely to make a similar mark on the software community. This excerpt from the new edition, on human capital, provides a good sense of where DeMarco and Lister's thoughts have traveled during the last decade.
Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister
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Risks to Human Capital

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
We build a model with inalienable human capital, in which investors finance individuals who can potentially become skilled. Although investment in skill is always optimal, it does not take place in some states of the world, due to moral hazard. In intermediate states of the world, individuals acquire skill; however outside investors and individuals ...
Mehran Ebrahimian, Jessica A. Wachter
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Education and Human Capital

2022
A rich literature documents the important role of education and human capital for economic development in the modern world. China has a very long educational history, but the rapid expansion of mass education and modernization in curriculum started relatively late, only after the early twentieth century. Over the period studied in this volume (1800 and
Gao, Pei, van Leeuwen, Bas, Wang, Meimei
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