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Farmers' Preferences for Gene Editing Crops and Influencing Factors
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gene editing (GE) is gaining momentum worldwide, but limited data on UK farmers' preferences hinders our understanding of its potential impact amid deregulation debates. Based on a survey of 200 English arable farmers, we employ a Latent Class Analysis and Multinomial Logit regressions to investigate current preferences for GE crops.
Bertolozzi‐Caredio Daniele +1 more
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Search, Migration, and Urban Land Use: The Case of Transportation Policies [PDF]
We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steady-state equilibrium.
Zenou, Yves
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An Assessment of Pakistan’s Urban Policies, 1947–1997 [PDF]
What public policies and programmes have been followed in dealing with mounting urban crisis in Pakistan over the past 50 years? This question has been addressed in the present article.
Mohammad A. Qadeer
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Morbidity Among the Aging Population in Northern Bangladesh: An Epidemiological Study
AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.Multimorbidity (≥ 2 chronic diseases) is common among aging populations, yet evidence from Bangladesh remains limited. A cross‐sectional survey of 540 older adults in Northern Bangladesh (June–August 2022) assessed multimorbidity using interviews and logistic regression analysis. Multimorbidity prevalence was 75.74% (95% CI: 71.9%–79.3%).
Md. Abu Sayem +3 more
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Frontiers in SociologyThe Latin American city is structured by structural social inequality, expressed in an inequitable distribution of people and urban goods across the city.
César Cáceres-Seguel +1 more
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Government, political actors and governance in urban policies in Brazil and São Paulo: concepts for a future research agenda [PDF]
Brazilian Political Science Review, 2013 Public policies are produced by connections between several actors, within institutional environments and crossing organizational boundaries, but detailed analyses of the environments in which politics occur are relatively rare in Brazil.
Eduardo Marques
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Tra espansione urbana e sicurezza alimentare: il caso della Green Belt bonearense
Geography Notebooks, 2020 The urban expansion advances on one of the most fertile plains of Latin America, modifying its territorial characteristics. The processes considered in the Bonearense region highlight how, although urban and peri-urban agriculture contributes to the food
Thomas Gilardi
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Modelling policies for urban sustainability [PDF]
The objective of the EU research project PROPOLIS (Planning and Research of Policies for Land Use and Transport for Increasing Urban Sustainability) is to assess urban strategies and to demonstrate their long-term effect in European cities. To reach this
Spiekermann, Klaus +2 more
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, 2009 This article provides an empirical analysis of the performance of urban containment policies in Beijing in the 1990s. The results show that the objectives of the municipal urban containment policies hove been partly achieved through actual local ...
Lue, Bin +9 more
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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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