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Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Transportation and access to urban services in Dar es Salaam [PDF]

open access: yes
Transportation in Dar es Salaam is particularly difficult. Statistical data drawn from the 1993 Human Resources Development Survey confirm that in unplanned settlements, transportation conditions and access to urban services are less favourable than in ...
Didier Plat   +2 more
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Localización de puntos de transferencia para transporte urbano y suburbano. Una alternativa metodológica para el caso de la Zona Urbana Toluca, México [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The present work contains a terminals location proposal for urban and suburban transportation of Toluca city urban area, wich was elaborated as follows: 1. Conceptualization of terminals or transfer points, as a transportation infrastructure component. 2.
CARDENAS GUTIERREZ, EUSEBIO   +1 more
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Analyzing individual rent price ratios in eastern German agricultural land markets: A GAMLSS approach

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Utility Evaluation Model for Subway Transfer Guidance Signs Based on Visual Entropy

open access: yesChengshi guidao jiaotong yanjiu
[Objective] In order to improve the utility of guidance signs at subway transfer stations and address issues such as chaotic signage setting, information overload, and low recognition rates, a visual entropy-based evaluation method for subway transfer ...
ZHONG Jialu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Monocentric analysis of restricting the budget share of housing alone or with transportation [PDF]

open access: yes
Considering the prolonged rise of energy price and the still elevated housing prices, the policy to limit the share of housing expenses in the households' budget, so as to secure their solvability, has been criticized.
Nicolas Coulombel
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Integrated urban evolutionary modeling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Cellular automata models have proved rather popular as frameworks for simulating the physical growth of cities. Yet their brief history has been marked by a lack of application to real policy contexts, notwithstanding their obvious relevance to topical ...
Batty, M, Xie, YC
core   +1 more source

How Does Cultural and Colonial Heritage Affect Optimal Branding Strategies? Evidence From the Rice Sector in Senegal

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Real-time Evaluation Model for Metro Station Passenger Flow Streamline Congestion State

open access: yesChengshi guidao jiaotong yanjiu
[Objective] Implementing precise initiation, performance evaluation and dynamic information dissemination of metro station large passenger flow management and control measures requires more effective support.
SHI Pingcui   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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