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Does Guanxi matter to nonfarm employment?: [PDF]

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Because land is scarce, farmers in China increasingly have to rely on nonfarm activities to enhance their incomes. The functioning of rural nonfarm labor markets is therefore crucial in determining who has access to nonfarm employment.
Li, Guo, Zhang, Xiaobo
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Monitoring systems for managing natural resources: economics, indicators and environmental externalities in a Costa Rican watershed [PDF]

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The worsening degradation of natural resources urgently requires the adoption of more sustainable management practices. This need has led to growing interest and investment in monitoring systems for tracking the condition of natural resources. This study
Chakravorty, Ujjayant   +3 more
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A hedonic approach to estimating the supply of variety attributes of a subsistence crop: [PDF]

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"The paper extends the household hedonic model, as a non-market valuation tool, by estimating a supply function for variety attributes of a subsistence crop in a developing country.
Edmeades, Svetlana
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Impact of global warming on Chinese wheat productivity: [PDF]

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"Climate change continues to have major impact on crop productivity all over the world. While many researchers have evaluated the possible impact of global warming on crop yields using mainly indirect crop simulation models, there are relatively few ...
You, Liangzhi   +3 more
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Comparative analysis of the national biosafety regulatory systems in East Africa: [PDF]

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"This paper analyzes the current and proposed biosafety systems in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda using a set of components and characteristics common to functional and protective biosafety regulatory systems.
Jaffe, Gregory
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