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Farmers' Preferences for Gene Editing Crops and Influencing Factors

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gene editing (GE) is gaining momentum worldwide, but limited data on UK farmers' preferences hinders our understanding of its potential impact amid deregulation debates. Based on a survey of 200 English arable farmers, we employ a Latent Class Analysis and Multinomial Logit regressions to investigate current preferences for GE crops.
Bertolozzi‐Caredio Daniele   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prisoners of Conscience Moral Vernaculars of Political Agency

open access: yes, 2012
An examination of the discourse of political prisoners as a form of vernacular ...
Hauser, Gerard A., Benson, Thomas W.
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The Entwinement of Politics, Arts, Culture and Commerce in Staging Social and Political Reality to Enhance Democratic Communication

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2016
This article explores how four British and German theater companies that originated in the countercultural era continue to survive in an increasingly austere economic climate. Although their survival strategies have been marked by remarkable resilience,
Daniel H. Mutibwa
doaj  

Analyzing individual rent price ratios in eastern German agricultural land markets: A GAMLSS approach

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The British Agency in Muscat...its political status and its administrative and economic tasks 1899-1914

open access: yesآداب الكوفة, 2008
The British Political Agency in Muscat was not only a regular diplomatic headquarters, but rather a multifaceted institution with diverse purposes (political, economic and social), all serving and managing British interests in all parts of Oman and the ...
مقدام الفياض
doaj   +1 more source

Circularity, Sustainability, and the Quality of Coffee Sold via Vending Machines: What Do Italian Consumers Prefer?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vending is an important sector in the daily lives of many people, and coffee is the most frequently consumed product in the European market. Like many other sectors, vending is responding to the challenge of sustainable development by taking various actions, such as offering increasingly ecologically sound coffee while maintaining/improving ...
Alberto Bertossi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

History's "Me Too" Movement: Recognizing the Political Agency of Korean "Comfort Women" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper seeks to answer a few questions. Within the context of how justice is delivered in post-conflict settings, in what ways are women’s agency limited? In other words, why is a gendered lens to agency needed?
Kim, Hyeji
core  

Situating Expertise: Lessons from the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

open access: yesGlobal Challenges, 2018
How do Scientific Advisory Committees (SACs) frame the relationship between political agency and expertise in their work? What are the political implications of the ways in which SACs legitimate or obscure specific forms of political agency?
Lauren Paremoer
doaj   +1 more source

Political Economy of Agency Employment: Flexibility or Exploitation?

open access: yesWorld Review of Political Economy, 2017
The proliferation of agency employment in Pakistan is a serious labour problem and a public policy concern because of the potentially negative implications for agency workers' basic statutory rights.
Abdullah Z. Sheikh
doaj   +1 more source

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