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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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

Sustainable low-income housing: Exploring housing and governance issues in the Gauteng City Region, South Africa

Urban Governance
Amidst the global discourse on the provision of low-income housing, there has been a growth in studies to assess the governance issues related to the sustainability of housing delivery.
Zenkosi Dumile Mhlongo, Trynos Gumbo, Innocent Musonda, Thembani Moyo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Law and urban governance for health in times of rapid change. [PDF]

Health Promot Int, 2021
Burris S, Lin V.
europepmc   +1 more source

Gated ‘communities’ - their lifestyle versus urban governance [PDF]

Today there is a widespread fear of crime on a global scale. This can be seen as a response to social inequalities, social polarisation and the fragmentation of cities, which has been caused by neo-liberalism.
Peer Smets
core  

How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
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 rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring citizens' perspectives on participatory design and planning: A comparative study across three capital cities

Urban Governance
Participation is often employed by authorities as a unilateral tool for gathering data from citizens, informing them about processes, and obtaining legitimacy and accountability, rather than truly empowering or collaborating with citizens.
Muhammet Ali Heyik, Maria Camila Castellanos-Escobar, José María Romero-Martínez, Zühal Çalışkan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Smart urban governance: an alternative to technocratic "smartness". [PDF]

GeoJournal, 2022
Jiang H, Geertman S, Witte P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe, Juo‐Han Tsay, Sarah A. Low   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making cities competitive and sustainable: Insights from comparative urban governance research

Urban Governance, 2022
Ling Zhu, Bingqin Li, Hongtao Yi, Jiannan Wu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source