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Growth of Omnichannel Grocery Retailing and Food Prices

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of the growth of omnichannel grocery retailing on food prices. We first develop a conceptual model of consumer choice and retailer pricing that allows us to evaluate changes in equilibrium prices, quantities, and profits with online channel growth and alternative pricing strategies.
Xiangwen Kong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nutritional Status of School Age Children (5-14 years) in a Rural Health Block of North India (Kashmir) Using WHO Z-Score System [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Objective: To assess the nutritional status of school going children in Rural Block Hajin. Methods: School children from various primary and middle level educational facilities from a rural health block were surveyed during the School Health Program ...
Bhat, IA   +5 more
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Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Children’s inter-age relations in rural schools

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Educação do Campo
The aim of this research is to analyse children's inter-age relationships in rural schools, given that the low number of pupils can limit the possibilities of socialising with children of the same age, encouraging relationships with older or younger ...
Paulina De la Fuente-García   +1 more
doaj  

Community resistance in favor of the Municipal Campo School Professora Edith Ebiner Eckert, Paranavaí/PR (1974-2023)

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Educação do Campo
The objective of this study is to understand the process of resistance and struggle of the community of farms Jaraguá, Paranavaí, Paraná to maintain his school. It was created by the municipality as a multiserous rural school in 1967.
Neiriane Aparecida Cattelan Mataruco   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Raising primary school enrollment in developing countries [PDF]

open access: yes
Few policies are as universally accepted as raising primary school enrolment in developing countries, but the policy levers for achieving this goal are not straight forward.
Handa, Sudhanshu
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Comprehensive Analysis of Arkansas Teacher Salaries: State, Region, and District [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
School funding has been an area of contention in the courts of nearly every state. Many of these court cases have challenged the constitutionality of state funding formulas, arguing the funding system was inadequate or inequitable because poor urban or ...
Kopotic, Katherine M.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inconsistencies in public education policies for the initial training of teachers in rural schools

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Educação do Campo
This text discusses the initial training of rural teachers based on public education policies. The aim is to identify the educational policies aimed at the initial training of rural educators, thus reflecting on the advances and limitations of teacher ...
Cleide Carvalho de Matos   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inefficient education spending in public school districts: a case for consolidation [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper estimates scale economies for Arkansas school districts. Large economies of scale exist in teacher salary and supply costs, as well as total costs.
Marvin E. Dodson, III, Thomas A. Garrett
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