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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels +4 more
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Eco-Friendly Construction - Prospects of Development of Sustainable Urban Environment
Improving the urban environment - and city dwellers` quality of life - has become a major issue in the global effort to achieve sustainable development.
Grizāns, Jurijs
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Environmental indicators for the urban environment : a literature review
, 2000 A vast body of literature exists on the genesis and evolution of environmental indicators of all varieties. This document attempts to track the somewhat complicated progress of urban environmental indicators, where they are in usage and to what avail. It
Convery, Frank J. +2 more
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Higher education, professionalism and skills in the built environment: the impact of the new urban agenda on teaching and learning [PDF]
, 2004 In the mid-to-late 1990s, the New Urban Agenda initiated a rethinking of urban development strategies placing a greater focus on regeneration of central urban spaces.
Bailey, Nick, McIntosh, S.
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Foreword [Sustainable Urban Water Environment]
, 2014 While most of us now live in places called cities, our experience of city or urban life varies profoundly according to how wealthy we are, our age, gender, class or ethnic background, and whether we live alone or as part of more extensive family and ...
Burton, Paul
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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, 2006 most urban design literature is assertively premised on value being added to urban environments that receive design attention. However hard evidence in support of this is rarely provided.
Holden, Gordon
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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
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Environmental Sciences EuropeThe bioaccessibility of Zn, Ni, Cd, and Cu is a critical parameter for accurately assessing the human health risk associated with oral exposure to soils contaminated with heavy metals.
Guofeng Li +5 more
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Urban forum pilot project [PDF]
, 1972 Report: 10 p., digital fileThe objective of this project will be to design, establish and implement a system of two-way information flow to enable policymakers in government to understand the perceptions and reactions of people on a range of policy ...
Institute of Urban Studies
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