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Famine and food security: new trends and systems or politics as usual? An introduction. [PDF]

Disasters
Jaspars S, Kuol LBD.
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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
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From egalitarianism to veiled selectivity: education, social mobility and the reproduction of inequalities in contemporary Argentina. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Ziegler S, Giovine M.
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Lost ground, lost value: Investigating the relationship between soil erosion and agricultural land value

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the impact of soil erosion on agricultural land values in the United States (US) Midwest. Based on a novel county‐level panel data set with information on soil erosion levels and agricultural land values covering five census years (1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017), we separately investigate the direct effect of two types ...
Le Chen, Roderick M. Rejesus, Hongqiang Yan, Serkan Aglasan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): the evolution of a global health and development sector. [PDF]

BMJ Glob Health
de Wit S, Luseka E, Bradley D, Brown J, Bhagwan J, Evans B, Freeman MC, Howard G, Ray I, Ross I, Simiyu S, Cumming O, Chandler CIR.   +12 more
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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
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Why do you want to become a Doctor? [PDF]

Eye (Lond)
Williams GS.
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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

Commentary: Fixing Fraying? A Response to Milinkovic and Hurley. [PDF]

Healthc Policy
Duckett S.
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Privatisering

Maandschrift Economie, 1983
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