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Policy Performance and Governance Capacities in the OECD and EU. Sustainable Governance Indicators 2018. Bertelsmann Studies [PDF]

, 2014
This year marks the release of the third edition of the Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI). The highly developed industrial nations continue to face enormous challenges, due not only to aftereffects of the global economic and financial crisis and ...
Azahaf, Najim, Schraad-Tischler, Daniel
core  

Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the Relationship between Precipitation and Vegetation Dynamics with Emphasis on Agricultural Land Cover in the Atrak Basin Area

Atmosphere
The present study aimed to analyze the dynamics of vegetation within the Atrak catchment area, as well as its interplay with precipitation patterns. Moreover, additional emphasis was placed on exploring the impact of these dynamics on agricultural land ...
Iman Rousta, Fatemeh Shakiba, Haraldur Olafsson, Edgar Ricardo Monroy Vargas, Anna Siedliska, Jaromir Krzyszczak   +5 more
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Potential influence of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on phytoplankton primary productivity in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Environmental Research Letters, 2019
Nine years after the Deepwater Horizon (DwH) oil spill (20 April–15 July 2010), the recovery of primary productivity at the ocean surface remains to be investigated.
Yao Li, Chuanmin Hu, Antonietta Quigg, Huilin Gao   +3 more
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Tax Policy and Farm Organization

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) introduced substantial changes to the tax code, affecting farms' organizational incentives. This study examines farms' responses to the TCJA along extensive and intensive margins, focusing on organizational and labor expense adjustments.
Tia M. McDonald, Katherine Lacy
wiley   +1 more source

Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
wiley   +1 more source

The OGLE Collection of Variable Stars. Type II Cepheids in the Magellanic System

, 2018
We present a nearly complete collection of type II Cepheids in the Magellanic System. The sample consists of 338 objects: 285 and 53 variables in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, respectively.
Iwanek, I., Kozłowski, S., Mróz, P., Pietrukowicz, P., Poleski, R., Rybicki, K., Skowron, D., Skowron, J., Soszyński, I., Szymański, M. K., Udalski, A., Ulaczyk, K., Wyrzykowski, Ł.   +12 more
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková, Michiel van Dijk, Robert M'Barek, Hans van Meijl, Tomas Ratinger   +4 more
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Temperature Sensitivity and Adaptation of Cereal Yields: Empirical Evidence From Italy

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the evolving temperature sensitivity and climate adaptation of cereal yields in Italy from 1952 to 2023, using province‐level data for maize, common wheat, and durum wheat. Employing panel data econometric methods, we estimate yield responses to heat exposure, changes in sensitivity over time, and adaptation to climate ...
Paolo Nota, Giacomo Coughlan, Alessandro Olper   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PROFILE AND IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC ON HOSPITALIZATIONS FOR OSTEOARTICULAR TUBERCULOSIS IN BRAZIL: A TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Introduction/Objectives: Osteoarticular tuberculosis, although accounting for only 1–3% of tuberculosis cases in Brazil, represents an important public health issue due to diagnostic complexity, high potential for sequelae, and significant impact on ...
João Lúcio Macário Lira, Thiago José Matos Rocha   +1 more
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