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Urbanization, Inequality, and Poverty in the People’s Republic of China [PDF]
, 2016 Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People’s Republic of China, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban–rural inequality, and poverty, and provides ...
Zhang, Yuan
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels +4 more
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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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Metropolitan Growth Policies and New Housing Supply: Evidence from Australia\u27s Capital Cities [PDF]
, 2011 This paper empirically examines the relationship between house price change, metropolitan growth policies, and new housing supply in Australia\u27s five major capital cities.
McLaughlin, Ralph B
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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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EMPIRIA: Revista de Metodología de Ciencias Sociales, 2014 French urban sociology developed in conjunction with French urban policy since the 1960s. By the time these policies were approaching the urban as a whole, sociology was doing the same.
Grégory Busquet
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, 2014 Various projects all over the world are attempting to build smart cities in hopes of achieving energy-efficient and livable communities, but most of them are aiming to fulfill their goals technologically.
M. Kii, Keigo Akimoto, K. Doi
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Sustainable cities and society, 2019 Cities around the world face new challenges of food security, and are developing urban food policies. Their objective is to integrate hunger problems with the aims of a food system based on environmental, economic and social sustainability. In this study
Rosalia Filippini +2 more
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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
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Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2018 This article applies a novel conceptual framework to characterise and assess the repertoire of practices used by informal networks to redistribute power and access to resources.
Claudia Baez Camargo, Lucy Koechlin
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