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, 2023 In current debates on land and resource grabbing, the question of urban land deserves, but has not attracted, sufficient attention. By the same token, debates on global urbanization and sustainable urban transitions only generally mention land in the side-lines. This chapter places attention on the emerging concept of ‘urban land grab’ and examines the
Otsuki, Kei +3 more
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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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A THEORY OF THE URBAN LAND MARKET
Papers in Regional Science, 1960 This chapter presents a non-mathematical overview, without trying to give it full precision, of the long and rather complex mathematical analysis, which constitutes a formal theory of the urban land market. It is a static model in which change is introduced by comparative statics.
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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 +3 more
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Life-course socioeconomic status and obesity: a scoping review protocol
BMJ OpenObjective We aim to explore the literature that studies the links between life-course socioeconomic status and weight status and characterize the life-course approach used.Introduction Obesogenic environments are increasing rapidly in deprived ...
Alexandre Lebel +3 more
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Property Damage Assessment Methods and Models due to Armed Aggression
Real Estate Management and Valuation, 2023 The paper deals with the conceptualization of the gross development value to assess direct damages and the restoration needs of lost, destroyed and damaged real estate as a result of armed aggression.
Drapikovskyi Oleksandr, Ivanova Iryna
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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 +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.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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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 +2 more
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Land Readjustment for low-income housing
, 2020 This is a PhD research project title as "Understanding urban land governance through “action space”: implications for access to land for low-income housing in managing informal settlements"
Shrestha, PhD R. (Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente)
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