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Backlash and Beyond: The Criminalization of Agrarian Reform and Peasant Response in the Philippines

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2014
In the 35 years since the end of the dictatorship in the Philippines many rural poor Filipinos have been caught up in a political battle over the pace and direction of agrarian change.
Jennifer Franco, Danilo Tanael Carranza
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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
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Preferential trading in agriculture: New insights from a structural gravity analysis and machine learning

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) contain various non‐tariff provisions, yet identifying their trade effects remains challenging because these commitments are high‐dimensional and strongly correlated within agreements. We estimated a theory‐consistent structural gravity model with domestic flows for 26 agricultural subsectors over 1988–2017
Dongin Kim, Sandro Steinbach
wiley   +1 more source

Backlash and Beyond: The Criminalization of Agrarian Reform and Peasant Response in the Philippines

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2012
In the 35 years since the end of the dictatorship in the Philippines many rural poor Filipinos have been caught up in a political battle over the pace and direction of agrarian change.
Jennifer Franco, Danilo Tanael Carranza
doaj  

Diagnosing the system: Mental health, necropolitical uncare, and the abolition of migration detention

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the psychological effects of migration detention in the European Union's Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC) on Samos through an ecological lens. It explores a double normalization of suffering: the brutalization of necropolitical migration governance and the simultaneous understanding of resulting distress as an ...
Julia Manek
wiley   +1 more source

De Novo 2.2 Mb 19q13.42–q13.43 Microdeletion Encompassing U2AF2: Support for a Haploinsufficiency Model

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT U2 small nuclear RNA auxiliary factor 2 (U2AF2) is an essential pre‐mRNA splicing factor involved in the early stages of pre‐mRNA splicing. To date, multiple individuals have been reported with predominantly heterozygous missense variants presenting intellectual disability, speech and motor delays, seizures, hypotonia, and thin or hypoplastic ...
Amanda Toledo, Sarah Araji, Weimin Bi, Seema R. Lalani   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regulating Drugs: Resolving Conflicts with the UN Drug Control Treaty System

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2019
There are good reasons to legally regulate drugs markets, rather than persist with efforts to ban all non-medical uses of psychoactive substances. Regulated cannabis and coca markets are already a reality in several countries, with more likely to follow.
John Walsh, Martin Jelsma
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Transnational memory

Current Opinion in Psychology
Transnational memory studies addresses collective memories between and beyond bounded national and cultural frameworks of remembering. The field has emerged from sociological, historical, literary and cultural research on the universalization of Holocaust memory, the comparability and entanglement of different histories of violence, the mnemonic ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The International Consortium for Arthrogryposis: A Collaborative Framework for Early Detection, Care, Research, and Education

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC) is a group of rare congenital conditions, characterized by multiple joint contractures but may involve any body system including central nervous system. AMC is etiologically heterogeneous, with over 400 genetic and many non‐genetic causes implicated in its prenatal development.
Shahrzad Nematollahi, Noa Bouzaglo, Victoria Castillo Sanchez, Johanna I. P. de‐Vries, Klaus Dieterich, Alicja Fafara, Isabel Filges, Philip Giampietro, Göknur Haliloğlu, Judith Hall, Coleman Hilton, Remco Jansen, Valentina Maestri, Carolina Navalon, Daniel Natera de Benito, Tony Pan, Ani Samargian, Bonita Sawatzky, Harold van Bosse, Paul A. Trainor, Noémi Dahan‐Oliel   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Humanitarian Field Practices in the Context of the Syrian Conflict from 2011 to 2018

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2020
How can we go about our work of saving lives when, in Syria, civilians, the wounded and their families, medical personnel and aid workers are all targets – whether in areas controlled by the government or those held by the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (
Hakim Khaldi
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