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Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang, Edward C. Jaenicke, Martina Vecchi, Sheng‐Jang Sheu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Barriers and facilitators to reducing low-value care for the management of low back pain in Iran: a qualitative multi-professional study

BMC Public Health
Introduction Low back pain (LBP) is a prevalent musculoskeletal disorder with a wide range of etiologies, ranging from self-limiting conditions to life-threatening diseases.
Seyedeh Yasamin Parvar, Parviz Mojgani, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, Fereshteh Poursaeed, Leila Sadat Mohamadi Jahromi, Vinaytosh Mishra, Alireza Abbasi, Saeed Shahabi   +7 more
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Dinámica migratoria y desigualdades regionales en Argentina (1947-2010) [PDF]

Estudios Socioterritoriales: Revista de Geografía, 2015
RESUMEN Hacia fines del siglo XIX, la Argentina, como país agro-exportador, había conferido a su desarrollo económico un marcado carácter de desigualdad regional. Lejos de revertir esta situación, el proceso de industrialización, privilegió como forma de
Guillermo Velázquez, Fernando Manzano
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Economics and transitions. Lessons from economic subdisciplines [PDF]

, 2006
Currently, there is much interest in stimulating or 'speeding up' socio-technical transitions to sustainable systems, most notably in the sectors of energy, transport and agriculture. This essay attempts to assess whether and how 'transition' type problems and issues are being addressed in the various sub-disciplines and methodological approaches of ...
Kemp, R., van den Bergh, J.
openaire   +1 more source

From the Grabbing Hand to the Helping Hand [PDF]

, 2000
I present a study of ownership of firms under government rent seeking. Using its control of regulated inputs, a government agency extracts rents from a manager who undertakes an investment.
Che, Jiahua
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Sustainability Strategies in the Cocoa‐Chocolate Value Chain: An Analysis Using Stakeholder Theory, Global Value Chain Theory, and Resource Dependence Theory

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner, Luigi Orsi, Alessandro Olper, Stefanella Stranieri   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transformation of agricultural sector of Ukrainian economics: some social and economic results [PDF]

Agricultural sector of Ukrainian economics is in the period of transformations, which are accompanied by increase of negative tendencies in the social sphere: depopulation of significant territories, worsening of living conditions for rural population ...
Borodina, Alexandra, Borodina, Elena
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Modelling the Gross Cost of Transporting Pig Slurry to Tillage Spread Lands in a Post Transition Arrangement within the Nitrates Directive. [PDF]

, 2012
working paperThe context of this paper is in the phasing out of the transitional arrangement under the Nitrates Directive. As there is relatively little grassland capable of taking significant amounts of pig slurry available in the vicinity of the main
Fealy, Reamonn, Hanrahan, Kevin, Martin, Michael, O'Donoghue, Cathal, Schulte, Rogier P.   +4 more
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Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

System dynamics modeling of membrane technology deployment in Australia

Frontiers in Membrane Science and Technology
IntroductionNational Packaging Targets have mandated 70% plastic packaging recovery by 2025, yet recovery rates have stagnated at 24%–27%, despite voluntary commitments and $690 million in investment (2018–2024).
Gavin Melles
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