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Kommunen als Verpächter–Bausteine eines nachhaltigen Landmanagement?
Fiedler, Lars - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2011
Im Zuge der Nachhaltigkeitsdiskussion ist zu fragen, welchen Handlungsspielraum Kommunen bei der Gestaltung ihrer lokalen Landwirtschaft haben und wie sie diesen nutzen. Ein Anknüpfungspunkt ist dabei unter anderen ihr landwirtschaftliches Grundeigentum, über das fast jede Kommune verfügt....
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Corporate Social Responsibility in Agribusiness: Empirical Findings from Germany
Heyder, Matthias; Theuvsen, Ludwig - 2009
The social responsibility of businesses has developed into a highly debated issue in recent years.Especially in agribusiness, recent scandals as well as information asymmetries concerning food production have ledto high external pressure on firms from the wider public. Being confronted with a...
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Outsourcing and Offshoring: Sector Implications for Dynamics, Growth, and Sustainability
Weaver, Robert D.; Chung, Sung Hoon - 2009
labor service contracting on sustainability of the local labor force.In particular, our results show that as contracted …
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Irrigation Restriction and Biomass Market Interactions: The Case of the Alluvial Aquifer
Popp, Michael P.; Nalley, Lawton Lanier; Vickery, Gina B. - 2010
The U.S. Geological Survey has determined that irrigation in Arkansas’ Delta is unsustainable. This study examines how irrigation restrictions would affect county net returns to cropproduction. It also considers the effect of planting less water-intensive bioenergycrops—switchgrass and...
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China's Agricultural Sustainability and Conservation of Biodiversity: Competing Policies and Paradigms
Tisdell, Clem - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 1996
Sustainability issues and matters involving the conservation of biodiversity are no longer new subjects for … applied to environmental policies. 2. Different concepts of and views about sustainability- and biodiversity and their … dissimilar policy implications. 3. Agricultural sustainability as a concept and as a goal, and policies to achieve agricultural …
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Managing Wicked Problems in Agribusiness: The Role of Multi-Stakeholder Engagements in Value Creation
Dentoni, Domenico; Hospes, Otto; Ross, R. Brent - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 15 (2012) B
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Truncated Growth and Compromised Sustainability: The Case of Lake Fisheries in Kashmir
Qureshi, Neha W.; Krishnan, M.; Sundaramoorthy, C.; … - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 26 (2013) 2013
and sustainability of traditional and choiced Schizothorax fish species in these lakes. The logit model has been fitted to …
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Local institutions and territorial competitiveness in the case of Parmigiano Reggiano localised production system
Arfini, Filippo; Mancini, Maria Cecilia - Associazione Italiana di Economia Agraria e Applicata - … - 2013
focuses on the role of local institutions in managing food chains, local resources affecting the sustainability of local …
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Sustainability Management in Agribusiness: Challenges, Concepts, Responsibilities and Performance
Friedrich, Nina; Heyder, Matthias; Theuvsen, Ludwig - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2012
results of an explorative empirical study of sustainability management in German agribusiness firms. The study shows that … agribusiness firms have developed a broad understanding of sustainability management and perceive a multi-facetted spectrum of … external stakeholders has become more and more important. The companies surveyed know quite a number of sustainability …
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GROWTH, POLICYMAKING, TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN MALAYSIA
Salih, Thamir M. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2012
For the period between 1957 and 1997, Malaysia’s development is analysed to determine the roles of inputs, planning, trade and government intervention in economic activity. Foreign investment is also analysed. During this period, by international standards, growth that Malaysia experienced was...
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