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Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
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Urban identity and planning: Conceptual study on identity of urban, identity in urban, and identity for urban [PDF]

Spatium
Urban identity is gaining increasing attention across different research disciplines. However, there is no consensus as to how this concept can be integrated into planning theory, because every discipline has diverse concepts of urban identity, which are
Umar Fitrawan, Winarso Haryo, Kustiwan Iwan   +2 more
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková, Michiel van Dijk, Robert M'Barek, Hans van Meijl, Tomas Ratinger   +4 more
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Temperature Sensitivity and Adaptation of Cereal Yields: Empirical Evidence From Italy

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the evolving temperature sensitivity and climate adaptation of cereal yields in Italy from 1952 to 2023, using province‐level data for maize, common wheat, and durum wheat. Employing panel data econometric methods, we estimate yield responses to heat exposure, changes in sensitivity over time, and adaptation to climate ...
Paolo Nota, Giacomo Coughlan, Alessandro Olper   +2 more
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Ready for tomorrow – A blueprint for regional and rural Victoria

, 2010
This policy document is the Victorian State Government\u27s $630.7 million plan for a sustainable and prosperous regional and rural Victoria. It supports the government’s vision for regional Victoria: a state of many choices made up of unique regional ...

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Russia’s Middle Eastern policy. Regional ambitions, global objectives. OSW Studies 71 December 2017 [PDF]

, 2017
Summary. Russia’s policy in the Middle East is part of a wider strategy aimed at creating an international order which would shield Russia against Western interference in its internal affairs and would guarantee it an equal footing with the United ...
Rodkiewicz, Witold
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Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross, Wesley M. Zebrowski, Julia C. D. Valliant   +2 more
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Пріоритетні напрями розвитку децентралізації влади

Менеджмент та підприємництво: тренди розвитку, 2018
Актуальність досліджуваної теми обумовлена необхідністю спрощення структури управління на місцях, забезпечення тісного зв’язку із громадським суспільством і досягнення прозорості у прийнятті управлінських рішень, підвищення ступеня відповідальності перед
Alla Dvihun
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Dealing with demographic change: Regional policy responses

, 2009
Ageing populations and the migration of people within and between countries are key demographic trends facing Europe and its regions in the coming years.
, EoRPA European Regional Policy Research Consortium (Funder), Ferry, M., Vironen, H., EoRPA European Regional Policy Research Consortium (Funder)   +3 more
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Regional policy in the Central and East European countries prior to the eastward enlargement of the EU, with special focus on regional policy developments in East Germany [PDF]

, 2001
The contribution investigates the status and the problems of establishing regional policies in selected CEE countries %28Czech Republic, Estonia, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary%29 in the preliminary stages of accession to EU.
Heimpold, Gerhard
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