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Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt, Stefan Seifert, Saskia Wolff, Tobia Lakes, Marten Graubner, Axel Werwatz, Silke Hüttel   +6 more
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SWOT-ANALYSIS OF THE OFFICIAL RUSSIAN AUTHORITY ROLE AS THE ACTOR OF THE POLITICAL EVENTS IN THE END OF 2011-THE FIRST HALF OF 2012

Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2013
The purpose/subject Consideration of a particular political actor in the concrete political situation. Method/methodology SWOT - analysis. Results of work Identification of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the actor, the construction ...
Kaminchenko Dmitry Igorevich
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Causal analysis of trade loss from pathogens: A global study of foot and mouth disease impacts on meat exports

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Our general interest is in global trade loss from livestock pathogens, specifically exports. We adopt a causal inference approach that considers animal disease outbreaks over time as non‐staggered binary treatments with the potential for switching in (infection) and out of treatment (recovery) within the sample period. The outcome evolution of
Mohammad Maksudur Rahman, Thomas L. Marsh   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

How cold is too cold? A theoretical analysis of the optimal trigger for index insurance for frost damage to crops

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar, Laura Meriluoto, Richard Watt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

A kind of democracy: Political domination in the problematic development [PDF]

, 2011
This thesis proposes to answer the question of how despite Cambodia having an election in 1993 in which the Cambodian people elected a government that adopted a constitution based on democratic principles, one party, the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP ...
Miller, Michael Bernard Leofric
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INTERGROUP PERCEPTION OF AUTHORITIES AND POLITICAL OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2015
The paper covers the results of research of intergroup perception in the context of supporting of authorities. The author presents verbal portraits of authorities supporters and political opposition supporters in terms of in-group and outgroup beliefs ...
S. F. Akhmatnurova
doaj  

The parties of the parliamentary opposition in the elections to representative bodies of local self-government in 2024

Наука. Культура. Общество
The article is devoted to the analysis of the electoral results of opposition political parties in the local government elections, which took place in September 2024. Considering the opposition as the most important element of the modern political system,
Nataliya M. Velikaya
doaj   +1 more source

L’immaginario politico delle memorie: Brasile 1964-1985 [PDF]

Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2016
From the numerous forms of symbolic good produced in Brazil and pertaining to the period of the dictatorship, itself a stimulus for political commemoration and constant subject of debate, we have chosen to concentrate on the analysis of books, considered
Lucileide Costa Cardoso
doaj  

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