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Spirit of the land : politics, memory, and the sacred in South African land claims

, 1999
Bibliography: leaves 224-242.This thesis examines the role of sacred space in people's attachment to land, analysing the ways in which people create sacred space through labour, ritual, myth, and memory.
Stites, Elizabeth Howland
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Reparations for Indigenous Peoples in the USA and Canada. [PDF]

PLOS Glob Public Health
Gone JP.
europepmc   +1 more source

Lost ground, lost value: Investigating the relationship between soil erosion and agricultural land value

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the impact of soil erosion on agricultural land values in the United States (US) Midwest. Based on a novel county‐level panel data set with information on soil erosion levels and agricultural land values covering five census years (1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017), we separately investigate the direct effect of two types ...
Le Chen, Roderick M. Rejesus, Hongqiang Yan, Serkan Aglasan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutional Design and Transitional Justice: An Analysis of Colombia’s Land Restitution Policy

This paper examines over 12 years of the implementation of Colombia’s land restitution policy to provide insight into the ongoing debate over effective institutions for managing property disputes in contexts of violence and inequitable access to land ...
Sánchez, Nelson Camilo, Naranjo Velasco, Karolina   +1 more
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Reparations and distributive justice in global health. [PDF]

BMJ Glob Health
Richardson ET, Keshavjee SA, Klinsky S, Chitre S, Matache M, Thorat A, Hickel J, Pheko LL, Bassett MT, Darity WA, Beckles H.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How cold is too cold? A theoretical analysis of the optimal trigger for index insurance for frost damage to crops

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar, Laura Meriluoto, Richard Watt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reparations for Caribbean slavery and the potential impact on human well-being. [PDF]

BMJ Glob Health
Beckles H, Chitre S, Richardson ET.
europepmc   +1 more source

Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang, Enoch Owusu‐Sekyere, Karin Alvåsen, Helena Hansson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Land Restitution in Colombia: Progressive Policy and Political Opportunity?

, 2012
This paper studies the policy changes that have led to the design and early implementation of the land restitution program in Colombia. I use the land reform literature to frame land reform efforts in Colombia within the larger ideological discussion on ...
Ricci, Melissa
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Understanding and harnessing unreduced gametes for crop improvement. [PDF]

Theor Appl Genet
Xu Q, Wu E, Chen H, Dong B, Meng Q, Yang D, Liu S, Li G, Wang D, Zhang K.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source