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Implications of private military companies on geopolitics and global security [PDF]
Politika nacionalne bezbednostiPrivate military companies are part of a moderately developed private security sector, present worldwide and engaged in various jobs. Apart from participation in war conflicts, which are most often associated with them, the services offered by private ...
Lazarević Dajana
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Private security in emergency situations - Serbian experience [PDF]
Bezbednosni Dijalozi, 2017 Privatization of security started in Serbia in the 1990s when the first private security companies were established. Besides taking care of people and property in regular circumstances they have to perform security tasks also during emergencies and ...
Želimir KEŠETOVIĆ
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Impact of Digital Ability and Rice Technology Adoption on Rice Farming Performance in Benin
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the combined effects of digital ability and the adoption of various rice technologies among smallholder rice farmers, using GPS‐spatially matched data sources that include household surveys and a general census of rice value chain actors in Benin.
Landry Bellarmin Kassa, Takeshi Sakurai
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Obrana a Strategie, 2013 The realm of privatization of security and the consequent existence of private military companies is an important constitutive element of security with regard to international relations. This phenomenon is most strongly developed in the Anglo-Saxon world.
Zdeněk LUDVÍK
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Does Participating in Agricultural Global Value Chains Promote Agricultural Growth?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between GVC participation and agricultural value‐added growth in 43 countries over the period 1995–2022. In contrast to prior literature, we disaggregate the agricultural sector into four sub‐sectors namely crop cultivation, animal production, forestry and fishing.
Taner Turan +2 more
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South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2011 The proliferation of crime, especially in the South African context, has placed considerable emphasis on the private security industry. This has also increased fierce competition in the private security domain with both national and international ...
D Kokt, C Van der Merwe
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda +3 more
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Specific aspects of private security in high-risk zone [PDF]
Војно дело, 2015 Rapid commercialization of security services in high-risk zones and engaging security and private military companies has put private security in high-risk zones in the focus of interest.
Srdanović Srđan
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales +3 more
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The Private Security Companies in the International Political Framework
Geopolitic and Geostrategic Intelligence, 2019 Recent years have seen an increase in the number of private security companies in different roles in several areas and regions of the world, especially to its approaching the core of the military operations, particularly in regions and hotbeds of armed ...
M.S. DJEMAL
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