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Breaking the "Fertilizer Poverty" and Food Insecurity Traps in Smallholder Maize Based Farming System in Southern Africa: Experiences and Lessons from Soil Fertility Network/Econom...
Mekuria, Mulugetta; Waddington, Stephen R.; Siziba, Shephard - 2004
Smallholder farmers in southern Africa face acute food insecurity because the productive capacity of their soils has declined. These resource-poor farmers increasingly cannot afford mineral fertilizers Farmers mentioned the lack of fertilizers for their depleted soils as the most important...
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The Problem with Briefs, in Brief
Conaway, Carrie L. - In: Education Finance and Policy 8 (2013) 3, pp. 287-299
Policy briefs written by academics—the kind typically published in Education Finance and Policy—should be a crucial source of information for policy makers. Yet too frequently these briefs fail to garner the consideration they deserve. Their authors are too focused on the potential...
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Breaking the "Fertilizer Poverty" and Food Insecurity Traps in Smallholder Maize Based Farming System in Southern Africa: Experiences and Lessons from Soil Fertility Network/Econom...
Mekuria, Mulugetta; Waddington, Stephen R.; Siziba, Shephard - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2004
Smallholder farmers in southern Africa face acute food insecurity because the productive capacity of their soils has declined. These resource-poor farmers increasingly cannot afford mineral fertilizers Farmers mentioned the lack of fertilizers for their depleted soils as the most important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005500494
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Superstars in politics: the role of the media in the rise and success of Junichiro Koizumi
Yamamura, Eiji; Sabatini, Fabio - 2014
candidate to win an election, even though his main agenda item (i.e., postal privatization) is strongly opposed by special …
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Electing the Pope
Kóczy, László Á.; Sziklai, Balázs - In: Homo oeconomicus 32 (2015) 1, pp. 101-116
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Local political marketing in the context of the conservative party
Reeves, Peter - In: Journal of nonprofit & public sector marketing 25 (2013) 2, pp. 127-163
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Superstars in politics : the role of the media in the rise and success of Junichiro Koizumi
Yamamura, Eiji; Sabatini, Fabio - 2014 - Preprint
candidate to win an election, even though his main agenda item (i.e., postal privatization) is strongly opposed by special …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010381044
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An empirical appraisal of the role of money in Nigerian politics
Alfa, Mahmoud; Marangos, John - In: International journal of economic policy in emerging … 9 (2016) 1, pp. 65-88
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You are in charge : experimentally testing the motivating power of holding a judicial office
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2016
Apparently judges’ decisions are not motivated by maximizing their own profit. The literature uses two strategies to explain this observation: judges care about the long-term monetary consequences for themselves, or individuals who are more strongly motivated by the common good self-select...
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Happiness before and after an election : an analysis based on a daily survey around Japan's 2009 election
Kinari, Yusuke; Ōtake, Fumio; Kimball, Miles S.; … - 2015
Election in 2009. We conducted a daily web survey for seven days before and after the election, obtaining1068 responses … significantly unhappier on the day following the election. However, happiness returned to the previous level in one or two days … that the happiness level of those whose expectation of the election results were realized did not change, while that of …
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