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Spurring innovation in food and agriculture : a review of the USDA agriculture and food research initiative program

2014

.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is the primary agency responsible for supporting innovations and advances in food and … agriculture. USDA funds are allocated to support research through several mechanisms, including the Agriculture and Food Research … new program. Spurring Innovation in Food and Agriculture assesses the effectiveness of AFRI in meeting the goals laid out …

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Labor Relations in Globalized Food

Bonanno, Alessandro - 2014

control have emerged. This book looks at labor in agriculture and food in a global era by studying salient characteristics of …

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The WTO, Agriculture and Sustainable Development

Wohlmeyer, Heinrich - 2002

Identifies the strengths and weaknesses of liberalized world trade, in particular in the agricultural sector, and investigates to which extent the current WTO agreements provide the devices to react to trade-related negative impacts on sustainability, environmental protection and food security

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Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe : Beyond White-Settler Capitalism

Moyo, Sam - 2013

The Fast Track Land Reform Programme implemented during the 2000s in Zimbabwe represents the only instance of radical redistributive land reforms since the end of the Cold War. It reversed the racially-skewed agrarian structure and discriminatory land tenures inherited from colonial rule. The...

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Shared Harvets : Agriculture, Trade, and Employment

Cheong, David - 2013

The edited volume ""Shared Harvests: Agriculture, Trade and Employment"" is the outcome of a technical cooperation … to make agriculture (or re-establish it as) a high policy priority, particularly in the domains of development, trad …

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Measuring service quality of the Greek Ministry of Agriculture

Kontogeorgos, Achilleas; Tselempis, Dimitrios; … - In: Measuring Business Excellence 18 (2014) 4, pp. 54-64

Greek Ministry of Agriculture and secondly, to confirm the five quality dimensions proposed by the SERVQUAL instrument for …

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Applying the high performance organisation framework in the horticulture and greenhouse sector

de Waal, André; Meingast, Alex - In: Measuring Business Excellence 21 (2017) 2, pp. 136-151

processes and systems of the agriculture company. This paper aims to address this research gap by evaluating whether the high …

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Sticks and stones: decision making by rumour

Lee, Monica - In: Society and Business Review 4 (2009) 2, pp. 123-132

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how financial risk is managed and commercial decisions are made within a successful UK livestock market. Design/methodology/approach – An autoethnographic approach is used, in which the researcher is both active participant and reflective...

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Symbols as cultural expressions of technology diffusion

Ojiako, Udechukwu; Aleke, Bartholomew - In: Society and Business Review 6 (2011) 3, pp. 198-213

Purpose – In the literature, technology has been shown to perform two major roles, one functionalist and the second symbolic. The purpose of this paper is to explore how cultural expressions in the form of symbols impact on technology diffusion. Design/methodology/approach – Data were...

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Social networks among small agribusinesses in Nigeria

Aleke, Bartholomew; Ojiako, Udechukwu; Wainwright, David - In: Society and Business Review 6 (2011) 3, pp. 214-228

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the diffusion of information and communication technology (ICT) among small indigenous agribusinesses operating in southeast Nigeria. The study emphasises the role played by social networks in the process of innovation and technology...

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