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Evaluating Sustainable Food System Innovations: A Global Toolkit for Cities

Valette, Élodie (contributor); … - 2024

This book presents Urbal, an approach that applies impact pathway mapping to understand how food system innovations in cities, and their territories, change and impact food system sustainability. Around the world, people are finding innovative ways to make their food systems more sustainable....

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Long-term effects of historical inheritance customs on household formation and gender disparities

Süß, Karolin - 2023

This paper studies the effect of inheritance customs for agricultural land on household formation and gender disparities. Under partible inheritance, agricultural land is split equally among all siblings. Under impartible inheritance, only one descendant inherits the entire land. Using a spatial...

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Assessment of agricultural sustainability: Case study of Baltic States

Štreimikienė, Dalia; Mikalauskiene, Asta - In: Contemporary Economics 17 (2023) 2, pp. 128-141

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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Asia's sectoral transformation, evolving diets, and the consequences for climate change

Larson, Donald F. - 2024

to "end hunger" and "achieve food security and improved nutrition," while promoting "sustainable agriculture." Lifting … the world's freshwater supplies go to agriculture; in South Asia, agriculture uses over 90%. On-farm greenhouse gas …; in Asia, during the same period, on-farm GHG emissions grew by 27%, from 2.5 to 3.2 GtCO2e. All of this puts agriculture …

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Characterisation of Danish agricultural investments in Tanzania and Uganda: Presentation of six cases of agricultural investments and their intended development outcomes

Broegaard, Rikke Brandt; Munk Ravnborg, Helle - 2022

This DIIS Working Paper presents key characteristics of each of the six cases including main crop focus, size and business model, as well as types of investors, their investment approach and the factors that motivate them. It also presents the different objectives that the investors have...

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Irrigation, adaptation and climate change: Panel data evidence for maize in Mexico

Gonzalez, Jesus Arellano - 2023

agriculture. I find that rainfed maize is sensitive to both temperature and precipitation. This sensitivity is weakened in …

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New (im)possibilities for agriculture and domestic services in Poland and Italy? Navigating legal solutions and social organisations' support for Ukrainian women displaced by the f...

Fedyuk, Olena; Kyliushyk, Ivanna; Lashchuk, Iuliia - 2023

agriculture and domestic services sectors. Both countries have been facing labour shortages in these sectors for some time, with … question is: what forms of support have been provided to forced migrant women from Ukraine in the agriculture and domestic … the opportunities available in the agriculture and domestic services in Poland and Italy, characterised by such structural …

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Towards sustainable agriculture: Behaviors, spatial dynamics and policy in an evolutionary agent-based model

Coronese, Matteo; Occelli, Martina; Lamperti, Francesco; … - 2024

strongly supporting sustainable agriculture. We test regulatory measures aimed at protecting common environmental goods and …

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Why do corporate farms survive in Central and Eastern Europe?

Fertő, Imre; Bojnec, Stefan; Iwasaki, Ichiro; Shida, … - 2024

Context: This article examines the process of the transformation of agricultural systems in post-communist Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. It focuses on the survival of large agricultural firms, known as corporate farms, during periods of economic liberalization, privatization,...

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Are young maize and rice farmers' profit efficient? : a gender differential analysis

Fani, Djomo Choumbou Raoul; Ukpe, Udeme Henrietta; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-18

The recent trend of development policy makes emphasis on gender disparity in performance, especially in the agricultural sector whereby women partake and play a crucial role and their contribution to the sector cannot be overemphasized. However, the contention is whether such disparity in...

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