Global 30 meters spatiotemporal 3D urban expansion dataset from 1990 to 2010. [PDF]
He T +6 more
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Harnessing the Forces of Urban Expansion - The Public Economics of Farmland Development Allowance [PDF]
For decades, rapid urban expansion has led to concerns over the loss of cultivated land in rural China. This contrasts sharply with another salient feature of the Chinese land policy reform landscape that has gone on largely unnoticed - the addition of ...
Chau, Nancy H., Zhang, Weiwen
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Recupero e riqualificazione delle aree produttive in provincia di Treviso [PDF]
Recovery and Regeneration of Industrial Areas in the Treviso Province. In the future the reducing necessity of industrial areas and the demand for a sustainable urban management - soil use - make more urgent the challenge of recovery and regeneration of ...
Giacomazzi, Sara +4 more
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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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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders
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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Impacts of urban expansion on the livelihoods of local farming communities: The case of Burayu town, Ethiopia. [PDF]
Talema AH, Nigusie WB.
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ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Assessing the health impacts of the urban expansion of small cities in China: A case study of Jiawang. [PDF]
Ge Y, He Z.
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major riceāproducing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
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Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneity of Urban Expansion and Population Growth in China. [PDF]
Liu S, Liao Q, Liang Y, Li Z, Huang C.
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