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Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Pluralism, authority and legitimation of the creed: institutionalized and uni-versalist religions in the road of the new times

open access: yesHorizonte, 2015
Starting from the affirmation of religious-cultural pluralism as consolidated ethos and normative basis of the contemporary societies, I will reflect on the challenges posed by it to religious-cultural institutions and to the type of essentialist and ...
Leno Francisco Danner
doaj   +1 more source

Work of a Nation: Christian Funerary Ecumenism and Institutional Disruption in Swaziland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article traces how contemporary funerary practices—foodways, prayer and burial cooperative participation—configure a Christian public culture in Swaziland that draws from ordinary citizens’ religious, ritual and political work and membership in ...
Golomski, Casey
core   +2 more sources

Volatility analysis and forecasting of vegetable prices using an ARMA‐GARCH model: An application of the CF filter and seasonal adjustment method to Korean green onions

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract The vegetable market experiences significant price fluctuations due to the complex interplay of trend, cyclical, seasonal, and irregular factors. This study takes Korean green onions as an example and employs the Christiano–Fitzgerald filter and the CensusX‐13 seasonal adjustment methods to decompose its price into four components: trend ...
Yiyang Qiao, Byeong‐il Ahn
wiley   +1 more source

Faculty Perceptions of Academic Freedom at a Private Religious University

open access: yes, 2010
Academic freedom is viewed by many in higher education as an indispensible foundational principle offering protection to university faculty. University faculty working within schools of education rely on the protection of academic freedom to pursue and ...
Ross, T. Christopher, Ed.S   +1 more
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America’s Changing Religious and Cultural Landscape and its Implications for Theological Education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article was provided to OpenBU by the author for open deposit. The publisher's copyright notice states: "Permission is hereby granted without charge for the reproduction and distribution of this work, or any of its parts, for educational purposes by
Ammerman, Nancy T.
core   +1 more source

Price Premiums for Single‐Name and Compound‐Name Geographical Indications in Swiss Cheese Trade

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Geographical indications (GIs) have become increasingly important in agri‐food markets, especially in Europe. For Swiss cheese imports and exports, we analyze whether GIs are associated with higher trade prices. We find that price premiums can be obtained for both exports and imports. However, this is only the case for cheeses with single name
Judith Irek
wiley   +1 more source

Boundary Crossing: Meaningfully Engaging Religious Traditions and Religious Institutions in Public Health

open access: yesReligions, 2019
Interest in religion and spirituality continues to grow among public health practitioners, researchers, and scholars. While there have been several recent landmark publications and efforts to understand the intersections of religion, spirituality, and ...
Katelyn N.G. Long   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Religion and the State: The Influence of the Tokugawa on Religious Life, Thought, and Institutions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper describes the influence of the Tokugawa government on religious life in Japan. It focuses on the religious traditions of Buddhism, Shintoism, and Neo-Confucianism and how the state used these religions to their advantage.
Labbe, Savannah A.
core   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

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