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Smart urban governance: an alternative to technocratic "smartness". [PDF]
GeoJournal, 2022 Jiang H, Geertman S, Witte P.
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Challenges and tricky words. A stronger role for planners [PDF]
, 2017 In the last 20 years, a deliberate strategy of impoverishment of local governments argued the imperative need of: a) involving at all (public) costs, the private sector through the “trojan horse” of governance (Miraftab 2004); b) designing big and ...
DE LEO, Daniela
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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte +2 more
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Urban youth bulges and social disorder : an empirical study of Asian and Sub-Saharan African cities [PDF]
By 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities, and the greatest growth in urban populations will take place in the least developed countries.
Hoelscher, Kristian, Urdal, Henrik
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Children in an Urban Tanzania [PDF]
, 2012 One in four children being born in today‟s Tanzania is likely to be growing up in an urban area. It is projected to be one in three in the short time span of one generation.
Riggio, Eliana
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Estimates of reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from lower demand for cattle‐based products must account for substitution effects. This study collected data through two surveys—one on ground beef and another on dairy milk—to evaluate substitution effects and potential GHG reductions.
Brandon R. McFadden +5 more
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Urban Local Governance in the Crucible: empirical overtones of central government meddling in local urban councils affairs in Zimbabwe [PDF]
This article explores the criticalness of decentralized governance as a solution towards service delivery challenges experienced by urban centres.
Chirisa INNOCENT, Jonga WELLINGTON
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
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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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Integrating Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design into Urban Governance Actions. [PDF]
Urban Forum (Johannesbg), 2021 Haysom G.
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