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This paper studies how land reform and population growth affect land inequality and landlessness, focusing particularly on indirect effects owing to their influence on household divisions and land market transactions. Theoretical predictions of a model of household division and land transactions...
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household labor for both children and mothers and, if migration occurs in response to a negative shock, we should observe an … by an increase in mothers' bargaining power, as children's human capital is not affected by migration, controlling for …
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Water scarcity, land use conversion and cultural and ecosystem changes threaten the way of life for traditional irrigation communities of the semi-arid southwestern United States. Traditions are strong, yet potential upheaval is great in these communities that rely on acequia irrigation...
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The loss of genetic diversity of thousands of plants and crops has been well documented at least since the 1970s, and has been understood as a result of epistemological and political economic conditions of the Green Revolution. The political economic arrangement of the Green Revolution,...
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networks. Actor-network theory breaks down the nature-culture dichotomy of actor-oriented theory, so that nature becomes as …
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This paper recommends expanding research on the interrelations between climate change, cities, culture and the way …
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While it is still a matter of global dialogue whether and how migration will feature in the post-2015 framework …, remittance-dependent countries like Nepal clearly back migration in their post-Millennium Development Goal (MDG) discussions. We … remittance-intense migration to include the increasing diversity of migration patterns and related commodification services, the …
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This article is about the work of museums in constructing the intangible cultural heritage of migration and diasporas … to the intangible cultural heritage of migration to Europe and argue that by recording, documenting, safeguarding and …
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Russian Empire. We propose that this dramatic migration was rooted in institutional changes initiated by the 1906 Stolypin … conditions in the reform area. However, this titling reform increased land liquidity and actually promoted migration by easing …-in-differences analysis on a panel of province-level data that describe migration and economic conditions. We find that the reform had a …
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they experience the risks and promises of transnational labor migration in gendered and culturally specific ways. …
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