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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang +3 more
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“There isn’t much support given”: Rural teachers’ perception of curriculum implementation
International Journal of Educational Management and Development StudiesThe schools in rural areas of the Northern Cape province in South Africa face many challenges that hamper the effective implementation of the mathematics curriculum and, as such, the quality of mathematics education and its learning outcome.
Kevin L. Teise, Redouane Y. Februarie
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The Role of Agricultural Colleges and Universities in Rural Development and Lifelong Learning in Asia [PDF]
The paper expounds on the challenges confronting institutions of higher agricultural education (HAE) in the context of the significant role of education in alleviating poverty, especially in rural areas, and in light of the changing needs of rural areas ...
David Atchoarena, Keith Holmes
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia +4 more
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Reducing isolation for educators through ECHO virtual communities of practice
Frontiers in EducationIntroductionStudents in U.S. rural schools experience lower educational outcomes than their urban peers related to social determinants of health such as under resourced schools, shortages of qualified teachers and staff, and high poverty levels ...
Elizabeth Dickson +3 more
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Addressing Teen Pregnancy in Rural Settings through Comprehensive Teen-Focused Prenatal Programs [PDF]
, 2009 During an internship at Magee-Womens Hospital, I had the opportunity to work with the teen centered prenatal care program. Through my interactions with the teens, I found that it is very beneficial to them to have access to a prenatal care program that ...
Brown, Sylvia Rose
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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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Access to education for rural students [PDF]
This audit found that the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development has not provided access to high-quality education for all students. Summary Students in rural Victoria make up 30 per cent of the student population.
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Education and Information Technologies : Official Journal of the IFIP technical committee on EducationThis study investigates disparities in Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) and attitudes towards digital technology integration among primary mathematics teachers in urban and rural China.
Mao Li
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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 +4 more
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