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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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Quantifying Impacts of Local Traffic Policies on PM Concentrations Using Low Cost Sensors in Berlin
Aerosol and Air Quality ResearchUrban air pollution remains a challenge in European cities, despite decades of improvement, especially with respect to recent updates to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) air quality guidelines in 2021.
Sean Schmitz +3 more
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Urban ScienceThis study investigates shopping behaviors for essential services among Black middle-class homeowners in Ward 8, Washington, D.C., a historically underinvested neighborhood experiencing a rise in Black homeownership.
Joyce M. Doyle
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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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Revealing subtle vegetation productivity dynamics in China via a reference-based framework
GIScience & Remote SensingVegetation productivity exhibits substantial spatiotemporal heterogeneity under the combined influence of climate change and anthropogenic disturbance.
Shuyi Zhang +11 more
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Consensus-based urban sustainability framework for Iraqi cities: A case study in Baghdad. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2020 Mohsin MM, Beach T, Kwan A.
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Sustainability and Urban Planning Processes. An Integrated Tool for Sustainable Urban Management. [PDF]
In the last decades in Italy the debate on the urban planning crisis (Balducci, 1991; Urbani, 2000) had showed a shift from practices informed by politics and negotiation to new positions where planning methods are characterized by a communicative ...
Giancarlo Deplano, Milena Lecca
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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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Discover Public HealthThe modified Retail Food Environment Index (mRFEI) measures the percentage of healthy food retailers across U.S. census tracts. While widely used to assess food access disparities, mRFEI has not been updated since 2011, leaving a gap in capturing shifts ...
Weixuan Lyu +6 more
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