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Harvest time: Why the UK should unleash the power of gene editing

English, Cameron - 2022

On the one hand, gene editing is a process of modifying the existing genetic material of an organism. On the other hand, genetic modification involves the introduction of genetic material from another organism. Gene-editing technology is a powerful tool that can boost sustainable farming, fight...

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Alte und neue Wege des Gemeinschaftsmarketings für Agrarprodukte und Lebensmittel

Kliebisch, Christoph; Rügge, Matthias - 2007

Gemeinschaftsmarketing für Agrarprodukte und Lebensmittel ist spätestens seit der Ein-führung des Absatzfondsgesetzes im Jahr 1969 das zentrale Instrument zur Absatzförde-rung in der Agrar- und Ernährungswirtschaft. Institutionalisiert in der Centralen Marketing-Gesellschaft der Deutschen...

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Agriculture, diffusion, and development: Ripple effects of the neolithic revolution

Putterman, Louis - 2006

Are the Neolithic revolution’s effects still impacting incomes across the world today? I find strong support for this proposition using new, country-specific estimates of the timing of agricultural transition. While support with my data is slightly weaker than with the coarser data of Hibbs...

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The agricultural origins of time preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2014

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...

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Climatic fluctuations and the diffusion of agriculture

Ashraf, Quamrul; Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2013

This research examines variations in the diffusion of agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory … the adoption of agriculture. Consistent with the proposed hypothesis, the empirical investigation demonstrates that … agriculture. Farming diffused earlier across regions characterized by intermediate levels of climatic fluctuations, with those …

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Hours and Wages in the Depression: British Engineering, 1926-1938

Hart, Robert A. - 2000

On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour costs, through movements from overtime to short-time...

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Piece work pay and hourly pay over the cycle

Hart, Robert A. - 2006

This paper investigates the relative cyclical behavior of the pay of piece workers and hourly paid workers. It uses a unique data set of blue-collar workers in British engineering between 1926 and 1966. The statistics are obtained from the payrolls of firms belonging to the Engineering Employers...

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Strategies for Success in the British Machine Tool Market: A Comparative Study of German, British, American and Japanese Competitors

Shaw, Vivienne; Wong, Veronica - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 64 (1995) 1, pp. 103-113

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The decarbonization of China's agriculture

Huang, Yongfu; He, Jingjing - 2012

Agriculture is one of the major greenhouse gas (GHG) emission sources in China. This paper aims to identify the key …

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A stochastic simulation approach to estimating the economic impacts of climate change in Bangladesh

Thurlow, James; Dorosh, Paul; Yu, Winston - 2011

Climate change assessments often inadequately address uncertainty when estimating damages. Using a dynamic economy-wide model of Bangladesh, we estimate and decompose damages from historical climate variability and future anthropogenic climate change. Our stochastic simulation approach avoids...

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