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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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Muhammad ʻAbduh: Islam and New Urbanity in the Nineteenth-Century Arab World [PDF]
Australian Journal of Islamic Studies, 2018 Most studies of the distinguished 19th-century Arab scholar and reformer Muḥammad ʻAbduh focus on the religious reforms he instigated. Very few studies discuss his vision for modernisation through educational, social and political reforms.
Kinda AlSamara
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Religion and Urbanity at the EASR annual conference 2019 (part two of two)
, 2019 After our first report on our project's panels at the 17th annual conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions in the Estonian University town of Tartu, this blod post discusses the second series of panels organised by members of our
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Vila franca de Xira: planned urbanity [PDF]
This research deals with urbanity on waterfronts and how to create favorable conditions for its occurrence, through the case study of the Vila Franca de Xira Riverfront, in Portugal.
Souza Benedet, Michelle
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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.
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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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, 2019 The Kollegforschungsgruppe (KFG, “Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies”) „Religion and Urbanity. Reciprocal Formations" at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies of the University of Erfurt (Max-Weber-Kolleg) invites applications
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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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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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Urbanity and spatial structure [PDF]
, 2010 Meu intuito nesse artigo é explorar as possibilidades do conceito de urbanidade desde o ponto de vista da estrutura espacial. A condição de urbanidade tem seu uso tradicionalmente dirigido a pessoas exprimindo delicadeza, cortesia, civilidade, polidez ...
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