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Regional Science and Ecological Economics: The Case of Nauru [PDF]
, 2000 John H. Cumberland
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
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REGIONAL ECONOMICS AS A PART OF REGIONAL SCIENCES
, 2021 Regional science is a multidisciplinary field which started to develop significantly in the 1950s. The development of regional sciences relies on the study of theories and tools that explain the mutual interactions of time and space (location) and their impact on society and its activities in a defined space.
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe +2 more
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AN APPLICATION OF GEOMETRIC PROGRAMMING TO REGIONAL ECONOMICS
, 1975 Alexander S. Kádas
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Financial stimulation of investment processes in the Russian regions
Путеводитель предпринимателя, 2020 The authors analyze the problem of activization of investment processes in the regions, proving the necessity of financial and tax incentives. And also demonstrate the possibility of using such incentives as a mechanism of deferred tax payments Tax ...
E. I. Kulikova, S. S. Dzusova
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