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Over the past decades, the modernization of agriculture in the Western world has contributed not only to a rapid … corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, originally seeking to reconnect agriculture and society, frequently provoke … debate, conflict, and protests. In order to make sense of this pattern, the present paper contends that Western agriculture …
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), sustainable agriculture must meet the needs of present and … systems need transition to become more sustainable. The use of renewables in agriculture allows to reduce energy costs and GHG … emissions and implement cyclic economy principles. Sustainability assessment of agriculture can be done by applying various sets …
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Agricultural production systems are a composite of philosophy, adoptability, and careful analysis of risks and rewards. The two dominant typologies include conventional and organics, while biotechnology (GM) and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) represent situational modifiers. We conducted a...
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investment location by foreign investors, especially those from the Global North. Capital investment in agriculture, as proxied … agriculture, in the form of government expenditure and official development assistance, is also associated with higher FDI. These …
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. The evolution of the territorial role of agriculture has implicated the coexistence among various economic activities … contexts realized by agriculture, the set of economic activities can take advantages from the sustainable use of the same …
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In recent years sub-Saharan Africa, notwithstanding the global financial crisis, has increased its share in global trade and investment flows. This has led to an appreciable improvement in development levels, albeit off a small base. However, these patterns are still dominated by commodity flows...
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Umweltschutzmaßnahmen und der Frage, wie eine umweltschonende Landwirtschaft stärker gefördert werden kann. … measures and the question of how to better support an environmentally friendly agriculture. …
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The role of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows is tested on three main pillars of sustainable development (SD), which consists of economic growth, income distribution and environmental quality for Singapore. The analysis is performed by using Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) estimation...
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Sustainability tends to become in the new millennium the most important characteristic of economic and social development. The possibility to ensure economic development in the context of a reasonable use of raw materials, energy and natural resources in general and to decrease the impact of all...
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Research on sustainability is now fast approaching half a century of dedicated work. Although there have been significant breakthroughs, sustainability and its corollary, sustainable development, have proven a tough nut to crack. In our paper, we have started from some fundamental questions,...
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