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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

Decision Analysis and Political Processes [PDF]

open access: yesDecision Analysis, 2018
Decision analysis has been with us for at least half a century. Over that time, it has developed from a theoretical paradigm for individual rational choice to a practical tool for individuals, small groups, and “unitary” organizations, which helps them toward sound decision making mindful of the behavioural characteristics of individuals and group ...
Simon French, Nikolaos Argyris
openaire   +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

Economic Impact of Political Cycles – The Relevance of European experinces for Romania [PDF]

open access: yes
The research was dedicated to the analysis of the interactions between political processes and economic activities. Explicitly, the research focussed on the theoretical and empirical study concerning the economic impact of political cycles and ...
Jula, Dorin
core  

Navigating the bio-politics of childhood [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Childhood research has long shared a bio-political terrain with state agencies in which children figure primarily as ‘human futures’. In the 20th century bio-social dualism helped to make that terrain navigable by researchers, but, as life processes ...
Lee, Nick, Motzkau, J.
core   +3 more sources

The Bitter Taste of Brazil's Temporary Import Ban on Robusta Coffee

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Brazil, a leading Robusta coffee producer and exporter, faced a significant drought in 2016–2017, which drastically reduced production and depleted stocks. Consequently, Brazil temporarily permitted the import of one million 60‐kg bags of Robusta coffee in the spring 2017. An import ban was imposed shortly afterward due to lobbying by domestic
Hanifi Otgun   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Whose Opinion Counts? Political Processes and the Implementation Problem [PDF]

open access: yes
The mechanism used in Nash implementation is a form of direct democracy, taking everyone''s opinion into account. We augment this mechanism with a political process that selects the opinions of a subset of the individuals. We study three such processes --
Saran Rene, Tumennasan Norovsambuu
core   +1 more source

Theoretical Issues and Oppositional Politics in East and Southeast Asia [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Two decades ago political opposition in various parts of East and Southeast Asia was primarily characterised by peasant insurgencies and radical student movements questioning the very basis of the capitalist path to development.
Rodan, G.
core   +1 more source

The Role of Coordination Mechanisms and Transaction Costs Promoting Sustainability Performance in Agri‐Food Supply Chains: Evidence From Ecuador

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
wiley   +1 more source

Ukraine: The New Stage in Political Development

open access: yesПроблемы постсоветского пространства, 2017
The political processes triggered in Ukraine in late November 2013 led to radical changes in the country. The protests targeted initially against the policy of the government that abandoned the EU association have grown into coup.
Sergey Sergeevich Zhiltsov
doaj  

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