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Foster Business magazine (2006, Spring)

, 2006
Foster School of Business
core  

Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enterprise ownership, workplace culture, and smoking cessation difficulty in China: A cross-sectional data analysis. [PDF]

Tob Induc Dis
Wang G, Du K.
europepmc   +1 more source

Foster Business magazine (2000, Fall)

, 2019
Foster School of Business
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Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang, Enoch Owusu‐Sekyere, Karin Alvåsen, Helena Hansson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Media Analysis of Debates on Extended Alcohol Trading Hours Changes in Scotland. [PDF]

Drug Alcohol Rev
Cook M, O'Donnell R, Mitchell G, Maxwell KJ, Emslie C, Carters-White L, Mohan A, Uny I, Fitzgerald N.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Foster Business magazine (2002,Spring)

, 2002
Foster School of Business
core  

Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich, Valerio Giuffrida, Bruno Martorano, Georg Schmerzeck, Marco Tiberti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethical decision-making under stress: the role of the nonreactive facet of mindfulness. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Hanson SK, Hollingworth D, Valentine SR.
europepmc   +1 more source