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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag, Janina A. Hoffmann, Tim Rogers, Christian A. Yates   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia, John Olwande, Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert, David L. Mather, Nicole M. Mason   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rise of Populism in Northeast India: A Case of Assam

Social Inclusion
A blend of historical and contemporary forces has shaped populism in India. The Congress government’s shortcomings (2004–2014), marked by dynastic politics and corruption, paved the way for the rise of populism, particularly under the Bharatiya Janata ...
Rakesh Mochahary, Loung Nathan K. K.
doaj   +1 more source

Women’s Contributions to Biomedical Healthcare in Ghana: A Focus on Obuasi

Culture & History Digital Journal, 2022
From economic, through politics to domestic support, women have been the major engineers of valuable roles towards the development of every culture.
Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, Benjamin Dompreh Darkwa, Regina Adwoa Agyeiwaa Boateng, Lucky Tomdi   +3 more
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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

Structural problems of mining region innovative development (Kuzbass, Western Siberia)

E3S Web of Conferences, 2017
At present, the issues of overcoming the negative structural shift in Russian economy, accelerating economic growth, reducing technological and social- and-economic gap between Russia and the developed countries are strategically important.
Dotsenko Elena, Ezdina Natalya
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Place Renaming and German Policy-Making in Temporarily Occupied Soviet Territories [PDF]

Вопросы ономастики, 2020
The article discusses the transfer of territory-remapping strategies by Nazi Germany from Europe to the occupied territories of the USSR, with a particular focus on place renaming. Measures concerning toponymy and onomastics were generally well-rooted in
Marina V. Datsishina
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Accounting for Substitution: Improving Estimates of GHG Reductions From Cattle‐Based Product Demand Shifts

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Estimates of reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from lower demand for cattle‐based products must account for substitution effects. This study collected data through two surveys—one on ground beef and another on dairy milk—to evaluate substitution effects and potential GHG reductions.
Brandon R. McFadden, Sara Gardner Hedgecock, Lawton L. Nalley, Alvaro Durand‐Morat, Aaron Shew, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Creating Communities of Urban Care: The No to the Felling Environmental Movement in the City of Madrid

Urban Planning
The emergence of urban care communities has recently become a topic of study, with a focus on the social bonds shaped through mutual assistance and support in vulnerable and non‐vulnerable neighbourhoods following natural disasters, pandemic situations ...
Rosa M. de la Fuente, Lucía Cobos
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