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Implementing farmers' rights relating to seeds
Correa, Carlos María - 2017
The concept of Farmers’ Rights recognized the role of farmers as custodians of biodiversity and helped to draw attention to the need to preserve practices that are essential for sustainable agriculture. This paper examines one particular aspect of such rights, perhaps the most controversial....
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Pharmaceutical research in Wilhelmine Germany: the case of E. Merck
Burhop, Carsten - 2008
In this paper, we describe the emergence and evolution of pharmaceutical research at the German company E. Merck during the late 19th and early 20th century. Revolutionary changes in the scientific knowledge base, especially the rise of bacteriological research, and the market entry of dyestuff...
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Zwei Kapitel aus der Frühgeschichte der Münchener Rückversicherung [Two Chapters on early history of the Munich Reinsurance Company: The Foundation/ The San Francisco Earthquake]
Spree, Reinhard - 2010
The Munich Re was founded in 1880 and is from the very start till this day one of the leading insurance companies in the world. Despite its long and successfull existance the company’s history has not been reported yet in a way that fulfilled scientific criteria. This paper can be seen as a...
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Expansion und Überleben von Unternehmen in der Ersten Phase der Globalisierung
Baten, Jörg - 2001
Die Determinanten von Überleben oder Sterben, von Expansion oder Kontraktion von Unternehmen sind ein wichtiges Forschungsgebiet der Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Zwar bietet die mikroökonomische Theorie eine Reihe von fundierten Verhaltenshypothesen, z.B. die der Betriebseinstellung, wenn das...
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Gentechnikrecht und Patentrecht bei Pflanzen
Dederer, Hans-Georg - 2024
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Zweinutzungshuhn - wie schmeckt das? Sensorische Beurteilung von Hühnerfleisch und Eiern von vier Zweinutzungshuhn-Genetiken
Gebhardt, Beate; Maute, Jutta; Kiefer, Lukas - 2023
Die Forschung zur Sensorik von Fleisch und Eiern von Zweinutzungshühnern stellt aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht bislang eine Nische dar. In Kooperation mit dem EIP-Agri Projekt "ZweiWert" haben im Sommer 2023 Studierende an der DHBW Heilbronn im Integrationsseminar "Zweinutzungshühner: Wie den...
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Zur Akzeptanz von gentechnisch verändertem Saatgut in der deutschen Landwirtschaft
Voss, Julian; Spiller, Ulrich; Enneking, Ulrich - In: Agrarwirtschaft: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, … 58 (2009) 3, pp. 155-167
eingesetzt - hat GV-Saatgut in der deutschen Landwirtschaft fast keine Bedeutung. In 2008 wurde in Deutschland erstmals Bt …. Unabhängig von dem globalen Bedeutungszuwachs - in 2006 wurde auf 102 Millionen Hektar gentechnisch verändertes Saatgut … northwest of Germany. The sample shows no clear rejection of GM seeds. A structural equation model reveals important parameters …
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Intergenerational Successionon Family Farms: Evidence from Survey Data
Glauben, Thomas; Tietje, Hendrik; Weiss, Christoph R. - 2002
This study examines family farms and characteristics affecting farm succession. Based on a farm survey, three aspects of succession are analysed in the paper: the probability of family succession; the likelihood of having a successor designated; and the timing of succession. Large and specialised...
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Real wages and labour productivity in Britain and Germany, 1871-1938: a unified approach to the international comparison of living standards
Broadberry, Stephen; Burhop, Carsten - 2009
Throughout the period 1871-1938, the average British worker was better off than the average German worker, but there were significant differences between major sectors. For the aggregate economy, the real wage gap was about the same as the labour productivity gap, but again there were important...
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Transaction costs, liquidity and expected returns at the Berlin stock exchange, 1892-1913
Burhop, Carsten; Gelman, Sergey - 2010
We estimate effective spreads and round-trip transaction costs at the Berlin Stock Exchange for the period 1892-1913 using daily stock market returns for a sample of 27 stocks. Our results show that transaction costs at the main stock exchange in a bank-based financial system at the turn of the...
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