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Peasants’ land rights and the hollowing out of communal property management in rural China

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2023
In recent years, China has strengthened the land rights of peasants while weakening the system of communal ownership of rural land. This study explores the rationale of land ownership policies enacted in China since 1978 to understand the trend toward ...
Xiaoyu Yu
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Ancient Trees and Aged Peasants

19, 2021
This article takes as its starting point Jacob George Strutt’s description, in his Sylva Britannica (1826) of the Cowthorpe Oak, an ancient oak tree, as being ‘like some aged peasant, whose toil-worn limbs still give evidence of the strength which ...
Christiana Joan Payne
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Contribution of Beef, Mutton, and Poultry Meat Production to the Agricultural Gross Domestic Product of Pakistan Using an Autoregressive Distributed Lag Bounds Testing Approach

SAGE Open, 2019
Meat is considered an important nutrient of human’s life to gain energy. It accounts as a significant portion of the typical diet in the globe and provides vitamins, minerals, protein, and fats, which are important and have a beneficial effect on the ...
Abdul Rehman, Zhang Deyuan, Abbas Ali Chandio   +2 more
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The market for protection and the origin of the state [PDF]

, 2012
We examine a stark setting in which security or protection can be provided by self-governing groups or by for-profit entrepreneurs (kings, kleptocrats, or mafia dons).
Konrad, Kai A., Skaperdas, Stergios
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The rise of new rights for peasants. From reliance on NGO intermediaries to direct representation

Transnational Food Security, 2018
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other people working in rural areas, adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 2018, recognises new human rights to peasants and other people working in rural areas.
Priscilla Claeys
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Dimitrie Cantemir’s Economic Perspectives [PDF]

Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series, 2022
Dimitrie Cantemir (1673-1723), one of the most erudite scholars of his times, was a historian, a philosopher, a geographer, a theologian and a musicologist.
Sorinel Cosma
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Legal Reforms of Agrarian Relations in the Duchy of Warsaw between 1807 and 1809

Studia Iuridica Lublinensia, 2022
The article analyses the reforms of agrarian relations, which were carried out during the first years of the Duchy of Warsaw, created as a result of the peace treaties of 1807.
Marcin Konarski
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Non-L\'evy mobility patterns of Mexican Me'Phaa peasants searching for fuelwood [PDF]

, 2012
We measured mobility patterns that describe walking trajectories of individual Me'Phaa peasants searching and collecting fuelwood in the forests of "La Monta\~na de Guerrero" in Mexico.
A Ghilardi, AM Edwards, AM Reynolds, AM Schreier, AV Chechkin, B Enquist, C Raleigh, C Sueur, CT Brown, CT Brown, D Boyer, D Boyer, D Boyer, D Boyer, D Boyer, D Boyer, D Brockmann, Diego Hernández, DW Sims, EL Charnov, Eliane Ceccon, F Matthäus, F Pineda-García, G Ramos-Fernández, G Ramos-Fernández, GF Lima, GM Viswanathan, HE Stanley, I Rhee, IEA, J Klafler, J Rzedowski, J Wakeley, JC Berrìo, JC Flores, L Mao, M Campiteli, M Hébert, M Jager de, M Slatkin, MA Lomholt, MB Burke, MC Gonzalez, MC Santos, MEJ Newman, MF Shlesinger, O Bénichou, O Miramontes, Octavio Miramontes, Og DeSouza, P Knoppien, PJ Brantingham, PJ Richerson, R Development Core Team, R Landa, RR Sokal, SG Nurzaman, SM Hsiang, TF Homer-Dixon, V Cervantes, V Cervantes   +60 more
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Did the Abolition of Serfdom Affect the Life Cycle of Peasants in the Western Part of the Grodno Governorate in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries?

Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski, 2020
The objective of the article is an attempt to find the answer to whether the agrarian reforms of the 1860s carried out in Russia affected the individual’s life cycle in peasant Catholic families in Podlasie which, after 1807, was included in the Grodno ...
Cezary Kuklo
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Trade-offs between ecosystem services and alternative pathways toward sustainability in a tropical dry forest region

Ecology and Society, 2016
The design of strategies aimed at sustainable resource management requires an understanding of the trade-offs between the ecosystem services at stake, to determine appropriate ways in which to navigate them. We assess trade-offs between forage production
Francisco Mora, Patricia Balvanera, Eduardo García-Frapolli, Alicia Castillo, Jenny M. Trilleras, Daniel Cohen-Salgado, Oscar Salmerón   +6 more
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