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

American 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, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seniors Active Living Centers: Promoting Quality of Life through Active Living for Long-Term Care Residents in Ontario

This paper demonstrates ideas and initiatives that seek to prove how a Seniors Active Living Center model can take part in ending the long-term care crisis in Ontario in parallel to long-term care facilities.
Ghunim, Shahd
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From invisibility to political power: Policy lessons from a decade of Brazil's Social Forum for Infectious and Neglected Diseases. [PDF]

PLoS Negl Trop Dis
Pinheiro EDS, Araújo CEL, Cunha ESM, Rocha AMD, Lopes Nunes Galvão D, Souza EA, da Silva MPCAM, Ramos AN.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

OTHER: The Political System: An Inquiry into the Stale of Political Science. David Easton [PDF]

American Anthropologist, 1954
openaire   +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

Affective Climate and Political Polarization: Identity, Ideology, and Support for Climate Policy. [PDF]

Can Rev Sociol
Huddart E, Silva T, Muzzerall P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Food inflation pass‐through from agricultural imports in a small open economy

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper develops a new framework for quantifying cost pass‐through in a small open economy by estimating firm‐level markup responses to agricultural import price shocks. We show theoretically that markup adjustments depend on firms' reliance on imported inputs and demand curvature, generating heterogeneous inflationary effects across firm ...
Minseong Kang, Seungki Lee
wiley   +1 more source

ПРОБЛЕМА МИГРАЦИОННОГО КРИЗИСА В ЕВРОПЕ ГЛАЗАМИ ГЕРМАНС КИХ “THINK TANKS

The article is the first in the Russianlanguage literature to explore the influence of nonstate actors of international relations, German think tanks, on the process of solving one of the EU fundamental problems - the migration crisis.
Ивкина Н.В., Вершинин А.А.   +1 more
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From reflexivity to anti-reflexivity: climate change polarization in the United States. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Swanson E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

American 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, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Lan Anh Tong, Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source