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Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões, Cassiano Bragagnolo, Humberto Francisco Silva Spolador   +2 more
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Între descentralizare politică și critică profetică. Peisajul politic și religios din Sfântul Imperiu Roman de Națiune Germană în zorii Reformei [PDF]

Eon
At the dawn of the Protestant Reformation, the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation was characterized by a decentralized structure and a collegial system of governance.
Maria CURTEAN
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“How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody to associate with me who does not wish me near them?” Accounting for Zora Neale Hurston’s Opposition to Desegragation as a Defiance of Universalism

Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone
The political considerations that presided over both the fall into oblivion and the rehabilitation of Zora Neale Hurston’s literary and anthropological work are in fact different readings of her stance towards universalism.
Carline Encarnación
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Nation-building in post-Soviet Russia: What kind of nationalism is produced by the Kremlin?

Journal of Eurasian Studies, 2010
After collapse and subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union, post-Soviet Russia faced typical problems of state-building and nation-building. Nations are assumed as political communities of Modernity.
Petr Panov
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Vertical Price Transmission in Food Markets: New Evidence From Meta‐Analysis

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing body of empirical research has examined price dynamics along the food supply chain, yet findings remain heterogeneous and often conflicting. This study conducts a meta‐analysis of 140 studies, totaling 652 observations, to examine (1) the reported presence of asymmetric price transmission and (2) the reported direction of price ...
Sushan K C, Xiaoli Etienne, Andres Trujillo‐Barrera   +2 more
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How Crop Forecast Similarity, Government Policies, and Macroeconomic Conditions Affect WASDE Forecast Accuracy

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) play a central role in how agricultural commodity markets process information about supply, demand, and prices. This study examines how global and domestic shocks, as well as policy interventions, are reflected in the similarity of WASDE ...
Zhining Sun, Rabail Chandio, Ani L. Katchova   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Impact of Sustainability in Wine Sector: A Systematic Literature Review

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability has become a key issue in the wine sector, raising questions about its compatibility with firms' economic performance. Despite growing attention to environmental and social practices, evidence on their economic implications remains fragmented.
Valentina Di Chiara, Eugenio Pomarici, Leonardo Cei   +2 more
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Domestic and External Drivers of Brazilian Pork Price Volatility Under Russian Trade Policies

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how Russian trade policies and domestic factors influence the volatility of Brazilian live swine prices from 2004 to 2019. We employ a DCC‐MGARCH framework, along with volatility impulse‐response functions and the connectedness approach, to analyze time‐varying co‐movement and dynamic volatility spillovers across pork ...
Gabriel Rosero, Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani, Bernhard Brümmer   +2 more
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Institutional Transition and Performance Dynamics in a Federated Agricultural Cooperative: Longitudinal Evidence From Indonesia

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agricultural cooperatives in many developing countries have evolved under strong state involvement, resulting in changing institutional conditions and governance arrangements that may shape their organizational performance. Despite extensive research on cooperative governance and federated organizations, limited empirical evidence exists on ...
Abi Pratiwa Siregar, Cathal O'Donoghue, Becky Whay   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the final (im-)possibility of resistance, progress and avant-garde

Filozofski Vestnik, 2016
The category of political resp. artistic avant-garde – as being progressive, sectarian and dogmatic – is under assault. However, there is no emancipatory politics feasible without any Jacobin element. In order to develop a post-avant-garde (as opposed to
Oliver Marchart
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