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Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

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, Edward C. Jaenicke, Martina Vecchi, Sheng‐Jang Sheu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Will learning social inclusion assist rural networks? [PDF]

, 2013
Current research on social networks in some rural communities reports continuing demise despite efforts to build resilient communities. Several factors are identified as contributing to social decline including globalisation and rural social ...
Marchant, Jillian
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Silences that teach, voices that resist: narratives of violence in the formation of rural subjects

Revista Brasileira de Educação do Campo
The research aims to identify and understand the forms of violence that permeate the school and university trajectories of undergraduate students in Rural Education at the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro (UFTM), in 2024 and, subsequently, to ...
Daíse Beatriz Souza Freire Silva, Beatriz Litoldo   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Education to improve cancer care in rural South Australia [PDF]

Cancer management follows the overall trend of rural health disparities, with higher incidence rates of preventable cancers and lower survival rates in rural Australia.
Hoon, Elizabeth, Newbury, Jonathan, Chapman, P, Price, J   +3 more
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Introduction - Education and the Global Rural: Feminist Perspectives [PDF]

, 2016
Educational research has primarily been concerned with the urban. It is telling, for example, that so many studies of education in the rural begin by noting the lack of lit­erature on the subject (Howley, Theobald, and Howley 2005; Hargreaves, Kvalsund ...
Mills, Martin, Pini, Barbara, Moletsane, Relebohile   +2 more
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Between the river and the classroom: Rural Education as an instrument for inclusion and critical thinking among riverside communities in the Amazon

Revista Brasileira de Educação do Campo
The article discusses the role of Rural Education as a tool for social inclusion in riverside communities, focusing on the community of Mapiraí de Baixo.
Matheus de Jesus Gaia Dias, Lucas Rodrigues Lopes   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar, Sanzidur Rahman, Giacomo Zanello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Innovating in rural education [PDF]

, 2018
Policy Brief heading: Education systems, aspiration and learning in remote rural settings An ESRC-DFID-funded collaborative research project (ES/N01037X/1).Research team LESOTHO Prof Nicola Ansell, Brunel University Dr Claire Dungey, Brunel University Dr
Ansell, N, Huijsmans, R, Froerer, P
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Educational Reform in Chile

Pedagogika
This study aims to analyse, within the context of paradox theory, the tensions and opportunities introduced by the meetings of microcentres, as spaces for teacher professional development within an educational reform.
Marta Quiroga Lobos
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