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Does zero tillage save or increase production costs? Evidence from smallholders in Kyrgyzstan

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2023
Promoting zero tillage has been recognized as an important strategy for smallholders from an agronomic perspective. However, the economic effects of adopting zero tillage are still a matter of debate. Employing an endogenous switching regression model on
Abdusame Tadjiev, Nodir Djanibekov, Thomas Herzfeld   +2 more
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The War in Ukraine, Agricultural Trade and Risks to Global Food Security

Intereconomics, 2022
Any calls to move towards a centrally planned economy or autarky are strongly advised against, as this would only be to the detriment of food security in the Global South.
Thomas Glauben, Miranda Svanidze, Linde Götz, Sören Prehn, Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani, Ivan Đurić, Lena Kuhn   +6 more
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The effect of income inequality on nutritional outcomes: Evidence from rural China

Journal of New Economy, 2021
There are growing concerns about income inequality and health, while little is known about the relationship between income inequality and nutritional outcomes, especially in a transition economy like China.
Jian Liu, Yanjun Ren, Thomas Glauben
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Producer Organisations in an Export-Oriented Value Chain: What Motivates Small-Scale Farmers in Kosovo to Collaborate?

European Countryside, 2022
Producer organisations bear great potential to link small-scale farmers to markets. In post-communist economies, historically negative attitudes towards cooperatives are blamed as barriers to collaboration, but little is known about the broader range of ...
Bäuml Theresa, Möllers Judith, Dufhues Thomas, Wolz Axel, Traikova Diana   +4 more
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Measuring oligopsonistic market power in the Kazakh grain processing industry: Empirical evidence from the General Identification Method

Journal of New Economy, 2021
The issues of market structure, pricing behaviour and market power are of great interest to research, industry and society. In recent years, Kazakhstan has become one of the largest wheat producers and exporters on international markets.
Giorgi Chezhia, Oleksandr Perekhozhuk, Thomas Glauben   +2 more
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Global Wheat Market Dynamics: What Is the Role of the EU and the Black Sea Wheat Exporters?

Agriculture, 2021
Over the last two decades, three countries in the Black Sea Region—Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan—became global leaders in grain production and trade, and replaced the USA and France as the most previous largest wheat exporting countries.
Miranda Svanidze, Ivan Đurić
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The relationship between trade policies and macroeconomic adjustments in the Russian cheese market integration

Journal of New Economy, 2021
Many different events happened in 2014 that affected Russia’s domestic markets. Among different dairy products, cheese has been the one for which domestic production has significantly increased and cheese import decreased since the summer of 2014.
Alisher Tleubayev, Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani, Linde Götz, Miranda Svanidze   +3 more
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Improving risk reduction potential of weather index insurance by spatially downscaling gridded climate data - a machine learning approach

Big Earth Data, 2023
Open-access gridded climate products have been suggested as a potential source of data for index insurance design and operation in data-limited regions.
Sarvarbek Eltazarov, Ihtiyor Bobojonov, Lena Kuhn, Thomas Glauben   +3 more
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Agricultural labour in transition: An update

Journal of New Economy, 2021
The economic transformation process in Europe and Asia differed remarkably across countries, last but not least, with respect to agricultural labour use.
Thomas Herzfeld, Zarema Akhmadiyeva
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The effect of Internet use on males’ body mass index and overweight: evidence from China [PDF]

Journal of Men's Health, 2023
The effects of increasing Internet use in developing economies have attracted various attention from politicians and academic researchers, while the literature investigating the effects of Internet use on nutrition and health is insufficient.
Weigang Liu, Jian Liu, Jens-Peter Loy, Yanjun Ren   +3 more
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