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Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich, Tim Ölkers, Vanessa Bonke, Oliver Musshoff   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Retrieve volunteered geographic information for forest fire [PDF]

, 2011
The proposed contribution describes a methodology we are testing in the framework of an exploratory research project on the contribution of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in the case-study of forest fires.
OSTERMANN Frank, SPINSANTI Laura
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A Survey of Volunteered Open Geo-Knowledge Bases in the Semantic Web

, 2013
Over the past decade, rapid advances in web technologies, coupled with innovative models of spatial data collection and consumption, have generated a robust growth in geo-referenced information, resulting in spatial information overload.
A. Ballatore, A. Buccella, A. Burton-Jones, A. Gangemi, A. Gore, A. Gómez-Pérez, A. Polleres, A. Schwering, A. Turner, B. Smith, C. Bizer, C. Jones, C. Keßler, C. Keßler, C. Manning, C.B. Jones, D. Buscaldi, D. Coleman, D. Nadeau, D. Strasunskas, D. Sui, F. Baader, F. Fonseca, F. Giunchiglia, F. Giunchiglia, F. Harvey, F.. Gey, F.J. Lopez-Pellicer, G. Bordogna, G. Fu, G. Tré De, G. Weikum, J. Giles, J. Goodwin, J. Howe, J. Leveling, K. Janowicz, K. Janowicz, L. Vaccari, L.L. Hill, M. Egenhofer, M. Goodchild, M. Goodchild, M. Grassi, M. Haklay, M. Haklay, M. Haklay, M. Kitsuregawa, M. Lutz, N. Choi, N. Guarino, N. Guarino, P. Burrough, P. Magnus, P. Roget, P. Singh, P.D. Smart, R. Fouad, R. Rada, S. Auer, S. Auer, S. Freitas, S. Hahmann, S. Overell, S. Schade, S. Staab, S. Vaid, S. Winter, T. Berners-Lee, T. Mandl, T. Mandl   +70 more
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Ban Glyphosate—Does It Affect the Swedish Farmers' Willingness to Grow Cover Crops?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cultivation of cover crops is one of the new Eco‐scheme practices introduced in Sweden. This study examines how the design of policy attributes of these schemes influences farmers' willingness to grow cover crops on arable land, with particular focus on the potential impact of a glyphosate ban.
Vivian Wei Huang, Anna Kristina Edenbrandt, Elin Röös   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards Enhancing Integrated Pest Management Based on Volunteered Geographic Information

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2017
Integrated pest management (IPM) involves integrating multiple pest control methods based on site information obtained through inspection, monitoring, and reports. IPM has been deployed to achieve the judicious use of pesticides and has become one of the
Yingwei Yan, Chen-Chieh Feng, Klarissa Ting-Ting Chang   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysing the Sustainability of Urban Development: A review on the Potential Use of Volunteered Geographic Information [PDF]

ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015
The challenges of how to ensure sustainable urban development are currently one of the important agenda among governments around the world. The stakeholders require the latest and high volume of geographic information for the decision making process to ...
N. Ibrahim, U. Ujang, G. Desa, A. Ariffin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wine Tourism as a Catalyst for Sustainable Performance: The Mediating Role of Corporate Legitimacy and Green Innovation

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to explore the influence of Wine Tourism (WT) on the Sustainable Performance (SP) of wineries in Spain. It particularly investigates how Corporate Social Legitimacy (CSL) and Green Innovation (GI) may act as intermediary factors in this relationship.
Javier Martínez‐Falcó, Eduardo Sánchez‐García, Bartolomé Marco‐Lajara, Luis A. Millán‐Tudela   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Semantic Approach for Quality Assurance and Assessment of Volunteered Geographic Information

Information, 2021
The paper analyses the characteristics of Volunteer Geographic Information (VGI) and the need to assure and assess its quality for a possible use and re-use.
Gloria Bordogna
doaj   +1 more source

Citizens and Institutions as Information Prosumers. The Case Study of Italian Municipalities on Twitter [PDF]

, 2015
The aim of this paper is to address changes in public communication following the advent of Internet social networking tools and the emerging web 2.0 technologies which are providing new ways of sharing information and knowledge.
Calvino, C, Capineri, C, Romano, A
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Farmers' Participation in Messenger‐Based Social Groups And Its Effects on Performance in Irrigated Areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in farming communities is increasing the use of smartphone‐based instant messaging apps. Despite this, the reasons behind participation and the impact on farm productivity in developing countries remain unexplored.
Zafar Kurbanov, Abdusame Tadjiev, Nodir Djanibekov, Ajit Govind, Akmal Akramkhanov   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source