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Agribusiness, 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
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Frontiers in EducationIntroductionThis study investigates the measurement invariance of a survey assessing perceptions of STEM professional development (PD) resources among rural and non-rural educators.
Angela Crawford, Angela Starrett
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Alternative approaches to education provision for out-of-school youth in Malawi:The case of Complementary Basic Education [PDF]
, 2012 Young people in Malawi face many challenges. Primary education is struggling with poor internal efficiency, low quality and poor educational outcomes. Access to post-primary education is limited and highly selective. The majority of young people who exit
Jere, Catherine M.
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang +3 more
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Pedagogical Workshop as an Instrument for Teaching Geography in Rural Education
Revista Brasileira de Educação do CampoThe objective of this work is to highlight the category of landscape as a tool for understanding the historical process of producing geographical space, connecting scientific content to the reality of students, especially within the context of rural ...
Júlio César Mascoto de Souza +1 more
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Rural America At A Glance, 2007 Edition [PDF]
Rural America At A Glance, 2007 highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. The brochure provides information on key rural conditions and trends
Kusmin, Lorin D.
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Underemployment in urban and rural America, 2005-2012 [PDF]
, 2012 Author Justin Young reports that underemployment (or involuntary part-time work) rates doubled during the second year of the recession, reaching roughly 6.5 percent in 2009. This increase was equally steep in both rural and urban places. By March of 2012,
Young, Justin R.
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South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011 Historically, rurality and rural education have been marginalised bodies of knowledge in South Africa. The post-1994 era has seen an emerging government concern to address the continuing interplay between poverty, HIV/AIDS, underdevelopment, and underachievement in schools categorised as rural.
Balfour, Robert John +3 more
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
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From Isolation to Inclusion: Advancing Rural Educational Equity in Scotland
Education SciencesThis paper investigates how Scottish rural schools engage with their broader educational landscape, particularly through collaborative practices and capacity-building efforts.
Michalis Constantinides
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