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The Social Reproductive Roots of Agrarian Contention: Gendered Labor amid Peasant Struggles in Tunisia

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper revisits the Tunisian 2010–2011 uprising and its ensuing decade of agrarian contention as a crisis of social reproduction stemming from the combined effects of depletion and dispossession. It traces the lineages of the grievances that continue to animate the Tunisian countryside to the multiple and often enmeshed labours—both ...
Dhouha Djerbi
wiley   +1 more source

Land use and regulating ecosystem services scenarios for the Brazilian Pantanal and its surroundings under different storylines of future regional development

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
The future of the Pantanal holds great promise if better laws, public policies, and socio‐ecological transitions are adopted. Here, we present future scenarios comparing these choices for the coming decades Abstract The Pantanal, the largest worldwide continuous wetland, is considered a global hotspot of ecosystem services.
Angélica Guerra   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Brokerage in Markets: The Role of Ambiguity in Distributing Value

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding what brokers do and what happens to them in the doing is a way of understanding highly uneven processes of market‐making and value distribution. This article explores the production and functioning of brokers’ moral ambiguity as a necessary and enabling feature of market exchange in a liberalized agricultural market.
Asha Amirali
wiley   +1 more source

Riding the monsoon: Geography and Iron Age trade in the Indian Ocean

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper exploits ancient textual sources to develop a database of ancient trade in the Indian Ocean and model trade in the region during the Iron Age. Wind‐speed data are used to construct a gravity model of trade and are combined with detailed textual data from the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea to analyse historical development trends in ...
Conrad Copeland
wiley   +1 more source

Timing and Duration of Drought Differentially Affect Growth and Yield Components Among Sugarcane Genotypes. [PDF]

open access: yesPlants (Basel)
Tippayawat A   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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