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The Role of Certifications in Improving Household Food Security Among Peruvian Farmers
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Achieving global food security requires sustainable transformations in agri‐food systems. Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) such as Organic and Fairtrade aim to internalize certain social and environmental costs while promoting more equitable value distribution, improved market access, and sustainable production practices.
Lisa‐Marie Schulte, Awudu Abdulai
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Economia & Região, 2019 This work seeks to analyze the behavior of the consumption of cultural goods by the students of the Federal University of Ceará - UFC. A questionnaire was used as a way of capturing and manipulating the data so that economic and social aspects of the ...
Thiago Andrade Sales +2 more
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DETERMINANTS OF SMALLHOLDER FRUIT COMMERCIALIZATION: EVIDENCE FROM SOUTHWEST ETHIOPIA [PDF]
Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2019 The aim of the study was to identify determinants of smallholder fruit commercialization in southwest Ethiopia. To get the sampled respondents multi-stage sampling techniques were used and in view of that, three districts were selected purposively from ...
Guta REGASA +3 more
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Limitations of p50 as a measure of seed longevity in comparative studies and the way forward
Applications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Premise Studies comparing seed longevity between species or genotypes commonly measure seed longevity as the time it takes for seed lot viability to drop to 50% (p50). However, p50 is influenced by the initial viability. Although standard protocols for comparative studies thus recommend using seed lots with similar and high initial viability (>
Lea Klepka +3 more
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Calculating the Probability of Returning a Loan with Binary Probability Models [PDF]
Revista Română de Statistică, 2014 The purpose of this article is to give a new approach in calculating the probability of returning a loan. A lot of factors affect the value of the probability.
Julian Vasilev
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Female Directors on Audit Committees and Corporate Environmental Decoupling
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Analyzing the connection between female directors on audit committees and corporate environmental decoupling, this study recognized the moderator effect of sustainability assurance on this link. Based on stakeholder agency theory, we used a sample of listed firms on the STOXX Europe 600 index (2178 firm‐year observations) from the business ...
Patrick Velte
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Cogent Economics & Finance, 2017 Human capital accumulation is one of the key drivers of economic growth especially in developing countries that are trying to catch up in per capita income with the developed world.
Nusrat Farah, Mukti P. Upadhyay
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Innovation Forms and Firm Export Performance: Empirical Evidence from ECA Countries
Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 2017 Objective: The main objective of this paper is to verify empirically the relationship between various forms of innovation and export performance of firms from European and Central Asian (ECA) countries.
Andrzej Cieślik, Jan Jakub Michałek
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Conditional heteroskedasticity in qualitative response models of time series: a Gibbs sampling approach to the bank prime rate [PDF]
Previous time series applications of qualitative response models have ignored features of the data, such as conditional heteroskedasticity, that are routinely addressed in time-series econometrics of financial data.
Michael Dueker
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study evaluates the effectiveness of green public procurement (GPP) in stimulating green products and resource efficiency in SMEs. The research uses sample data from 28 European countries (27 EU country members and the United Kingdom) to test two hypotheses, namely, one on the effects of GPP on green products and processes as well as ...
Dragana Radicic, Ian Jackson
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