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Ranchers or pastoralists? Farm size, specialisation and production strategy amongst cattle farmers in south-eastern Kazakhstan

Robinson, Sarah; Bozayeva, Zhanyl; Mukhamedova, Nozilakhon - In: Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 11 (2021)

of production in Kazakhstan's traditionally nomadic livestock sector. Experts see considerable potential for output … livestock and future greenhouse gas emissions. We focus on the beef sector, using original survey data and interviews from south …-eastern Kazakhstan to compare rural households and farms by production strategy, generated using cluster analysis from data on livestock …

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Grain Prices in Pre-industrial Germany, Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries

Albers, Hakon; Pfister, Ulrich - In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und … 111 (2024) 1, pp. 66-90

We present the largest homogenous dataset of grain prices for four major types of grain for pre-industrial Germany covering 70 cities with a total of 259 time series. This article describes the sources and the methodology followed to create calendar-year-based price series in grams of silver per...

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Migration magnet: The role of work experience in rural-urban wage differentials

Michaelsen, Maren; Haisken-DeNew, John - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-25

This study uses the nationally representative Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) to identify systematic differences in earnings returns to human capital endowments for formal and informal sector workers in rural and urban Mexico. Returns to experience are critical in explaining the large urban...

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Rediscovering the Virgin Lands: Agricultural investment and rural livelihoods in a Eurasian frontier area

Petrick, Martin; Wandel, Jürgen; Karsten, Katharina - In: World Development 43 (2013), pp. 164-179

Against the global debate on socially responsible agro-investment, we explore the conditions, patterns, and impacts of recent agricultural recovery in Kazakhstan’s northern grain provinces. Vertically and horizontally integrated agroholdings brought outside investment and management to this...

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How does land fragmentation affect off-farm labor supply: panel data evidence from China

Jia, Lili; Petrick, Martin - In: Agricultural Economics 45 (2014) 3, pp. 369-380

This article provides a deeper theoretical understanding of the linkages between land fragmentation and off-farm labor supply in China, and investigates this relationship empirically in a more direct way than does the existing literature. Drawing upon a rural household panel data set collected...

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Rural class differentiation in Nigeria: Theory and practice - a quantitative approach in the case of Nupeland

Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 14 (1979) 3, pp. 295-315

The knowledge of social stratification within the peasantry is a decisive precondition of sustainable economic and political measures for an effective support of agricultural production in least developed countries. This is one of the reasons why also in Nigeria social scientist focus on the...

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Klimaschutz durch Biokohle in der deutschen Landwirtschaft: Potentiale und Kosten

Teichmann, Isabel - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 1/2, pp. 3-13

Seit einigen Jahren wird Biokohle - ein kohlenstoffreiches Produkt aus Biomasse - als eine viel versprechende Klimaschutzoption diskutiert. Insbesondere besteht die Möglichkeit, der Atmosphäre langfristig Kohlenstoffdioxid zu entziehen, indem Biokohle in den Boden eingearbeitet wird....

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Renewable energy investment stimulants in Polish agricultural holdings as a part of supporting sustainable agriculture

Graczyk, Alicja Małgorzata - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 17 (2017) 4, pp. 693-706

The article concerns the analysis of the results of surveys conducted by the author in Lower Silesia region in Poland. The results of the research presented in the article have been narrowed down for the stimulants (benefits, advantages and reasons) of the renewable energy sources (RES)...

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Sustainable development of agriculture: Theoretical aspects and their implications

Kociszewski, Karol - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 18 (2018) 3, pp. 1119-1134

The objective is to provide a systematization of concepts connected with sustainable development of agriculture (SDA) as the basis for indication of directions of changes in Polish agriculture. The author applied descriptive and comparative analyses based on a survey of the literature to...

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Rural development perspectives in enlarging Europe: The implications of CAP reforms and agricultural transition in accession countries

Rizov, Marian - In: European Planning Studies 14 (2006) 2, pp. 219-238

The purpose of this paper is to put into an appropriate theoretical frame the rural development issues in enlarging Europe and to analyse the rural development perspectives in the European Union (EU) accession countries. Based on comparisons of developments in the Common Agricultural Policy...

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