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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 +3 more
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Ghana airborne geophysics project in the Volta and Keta Basin : BGS final report [PDF]
, 2009 This report describes the work undertaken by BGS between November 2006 and March 2009 in collaboration with Fugro Airborne Surveys Pty Ltd on an airborne geophysical survey and ground reconnaissance mapping of the Volta River and Keta Basins, Ghana ...
Carney, J.N. +3 more
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Climate Change Agricultural Comparative Advantage and the US Trade Balance
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Current science indicates that warming and elevated atmospheric CO2 will have ambiguous results for crop productivity depending on crop type and geographic location, whereas increased heat stress makes livestock and human labor less productive.
Elizabeth A. Fraysse +2 more
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Slope Stability Analysis of Open-Pit Mine Considering Weathering Effects
Applied SciencesWeathering processes gradually alter the physical and mechanical attributes of slope materials, weakening the structural integrity and stability of slopes.
Wei Liu +5 more
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Weathering of stony meteorites in Antarctica [PDF]
Weathering produces undesirable physical, chemical, and isotopic changes that might disturb the records of cosmochemical evolution that are sought in meteorites. Meteorites are physically disintegrated by crack propagation phenomena, including ice riving
Gooding, J. L.
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
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EFFLORESCENT SULFATE MINERALS OF THE KARABASH MINING/SMELTING AREA, URAL MOUNTAINS, RU [PDF]
Минералогия, 2018 Karabash is a copper smelting town in the Chelyabinsk district of the Southern Ural mountains of Russia. The town is in close proximity to a large copper deposit and resultant mining activities.
J. Hechler +4 more
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Penggunaan strategi pembelajaran pengarahan kendiri di kalangan pelajar-pelajar jurusan perakaunan jabatan perdagangan di politeknik [PDF]
, 2001 Kajian ini adalah bertujuan untuk mengenalpasti tahap Strategi Pembelajaran Pengarahan Kendiri (SPPK) di kalangan para pelajar jurusan perakaunan, Jabatan Perdagangan, di 3 buah politeknik iaitu Politeknik Shah Alam, Politeknik Kota Melaka dan ...
Ahmad, Harlinda +2 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
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