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Freedom, progress, and human flourishing

, 2021
Why freedom? -- Evolution of ideas about freedom -- The meaning of progress -- The drivers of progress -- Will progress continue? -- The challenge of self-direction -- Personal development -- The evolving context of individual flourishing"In this book ...
Bates, Winton Russell
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Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang, Edward C. Jaenicke, Martina Vecchi, Sheng‐Jang Sheu   +3 more
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Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar, Sanzidur Rahman, Giacomo Zanello   +2 more
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Demographic variation in self-rated physical health across 22 countries: findings from the Global Flourishing Study

BMC Global and Public Health
Background Relatively few studies have examined how self-rated physical health (SRH) varies across: (a) countries around the world and (b) demographic characteristics in diverse nations and cultures.
Matt Bradshaw, Blake Victor Kent, Jeff Levin, Jennifer Susan Wortham, Noémie Le Pertel, Tyler J. VanderWeele, Byron R. Johnson   +6 more
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Topological Properties of International Commodity Market: How Uncertainty Affects the Linkages?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study aims to explore the network topology of the international commodity market by examining the interconnections among 21 commodity futures across various categories, including energy, precious and industrial metals, and agriculture. We analyze the market structure of these commodity futures under both low and high uncertainty conditions
Ibrahim Yagli, Bayram Deviren
wiley   +1 more source

Childhood predictors of balance in life: a cross-national analysis of the global flourishing study

Scientific Reports
Although the importance of balance has been recognized in various specific domains, from work-life balance to a balanced diet, there has been curiously little attention to balance in life overall (i.e., across all aspects of living).
Tim Lomas, R. Noah Padgett, James L. Ritchie-Dunham, James O. Pawelski, Koichiro Shiba, Byron R. Johnson, Tyler J. VanderWeele   +6 more
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Flourishing Interventions 2.0: a practical guide to student development

, 2019
This chapter presents a practical guide for the development of flourishing students. Flourishing is defined as a positive psychological state characterised by positive emotions, engagement, positive relationships, meaning and accomplishments with various
van Zyl, Llewellyn, Stander, Marius W., van Zyl, L.E.   +2 more
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Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe, Juo‐Han Tsay, Sarah A. Low   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPIRITUALITY AND HUMAN FLOURISHING

In this research, a narrative bibliographic review has been carried out, developing the variables Spirituality and Human Flourishing, allowing us to establish that connectivity with oneself has positive results in people's daily lives.
Olguin, Camila Victoria, Melany Chiara Bogoslavsky, Camila Victoria Olguin, Bogoslavsky, Melany Chiara   +3 more
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