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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Heidegger still matters? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In this presentation I will defend the relevance of Heidegger’s thinking for our time. He has always been a disturbing philosopher, both because of his involvement with National Socialism and because of the fundamental and radical character of his ...
Denker, Alfred
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Hannah Arendt's Ghosts:Reflections on the Disputable Path from Windhoek to Auschwitz [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Historians on both sides of the Atlantic are currently engaged in a controversy about the allegedly genocidal nature of western colonialism and its connections with the mass violence unleashed by Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945.
Angrick   +112 more
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Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ideological fundaments of the agrarian politics in the occupied Serbia and village under the occupation 1941­1945 [PDF]

open access: yesBaština, 2011
The author states that M. Nedić paid a considerable attention to the village and peasants bearing in mind their number, tradition and the fact the village were the foothold of the Serbian state in the past.
Kerkez Slobodan Đ.
doaj  

From Humanism to Nazism: Antiquity in the Work of Houston Stewart Chamberlain

open access: yesMiranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2015
Houston Stewart Chamberlain was a social Darwinist and a true racist. He also had quite a vast cultural knowledge for a self-made man. Both an art lover and a dilettante, he was welcomed into Richard Wagner’s larger circles when he became his son-in-law.
Johann Chapoutot
doaj   +1 more source

Fascism: A Review of Its History and Its Present Cultural Reality in the Americas [PDF]

open access: yes, 1982
The Italians may have given us the word “fascismo,” but whether we use that word or the Spanish ”falangismo” or the German “National Socialism” (Naziism) we are talking about a form of social organization which has a complex history. Indeed, many persons
Forbes, Jack D.
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Rüdin's Unpublished Family Study From the Early 1920s: “On the Inheritance of Manic‐Depressive Insanity”

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ernst Rüdin, an important and controversial figure in the history of psychiatric genetics, published only one major empirical study on siblings of dementia praecox (DP) probands in 1916. He conducted a parallel study of siblings of probands with manic‐depressive insanity (MDI), but the resulting monograph, written in the early 1920s, was left ...
Kenneth S. Kendler, Astrid Klee
wiley   +1 more source

Tenório de Albuquerque: a Brazilian in the Third Reich (1936-1937)

open access: yesIberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, 2019
This paper aims at analyzing the ideas of Arcy Tenório de Albuquerque, an ideologue and militant of the Brazilian Integralist Action, a fascist-inspired political party founded in 1932.
Marcelo Alves de Paula Lima
doaj   +1 more source

Dr. Hans Kohn and the political takeover of the Berlin Medical Society by the National Socialist regime in 1933

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract To solidify their power over society, totalitarian regimes will usually eliminate any dissent, any perceived threats early on. These threats include not only political enemies but also educated and independent segments of society, such as professional associations.
Michael Hortsch
wiley   +1 more source

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