); internet-based communication seems to stimulate local offline communication (Storper and Venables, 2004). Social network sites … are major fields of online communication and "enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks" (boyd and … Ellison, 2007). Online social network (OSN) are large-scale networks and claimed to be supplemental forms of communication …

biotechnology, and whether their research and development efforts would benefit poor and vulnerable farmers in hazard …-prone ecosystems. We employ discrete choice experiments to examine farmers' preferences for DT traits and explore heterogeneity in … preference heterogeneity, our results show that farmers value the reduction in yield variability offered by DT cultivars but are …