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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 +3 more
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Community Bargaining with Urban Growth: The Case of J Village in Guangzhou. [PDF]
Xu Y, Huang X.
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Urbanization and health in Africa : exploring the interconnections between poverty, inequality and the burden of disease [PDF]
There are few changes in the history of human existence comparable to urbanization in scope and potential to bring about biologic change. The transition in the developed world from an agricultural to an industrial-urban society has already produced ...
Songsore, Jacob
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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 rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
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Application of urban growth boundary delineation based on a neural network approach and landscape metrics for Khulna City, Bangladesh. [PDF]
Bakshi A, Esraz-Ul-Zannat M.
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Rural and urban dynamics and poverty: Evidence from China and India [PDF]
"Like many developing countries, China and India followed development strategies biased in favor of the urban sector over the last several decades. These development schemes have led to overall efficiency losses due to misallocation of resources among ...
Chan-Kang, Connie +2 more
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ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli +2 more
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Exploring urban growth-climate change-flood risk nexus in fast growing cities. [PDF]
Ajjur SB, Al-Ghamdi SG.
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Overflowing Cities: The State of the World's Toilets 2016 [PDF]
Human beings are now largely an urban species: for the first time in history, more than half of the world's population (54%, or 3.9 billion people) lives in towns, cities and megacities.
Tom Burgess
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