Impact of agricultural land use in Central Asia: a review

A Hamidov, K Helming, D Balla - Agronomy for sustainable development, 2016 - Springer
Agriculture is major sector in the economy of Central Asia. The sustainable use of
agricultural land is therefore essential to economic growth, human well-being, social equity …

The Central Asian economies in the twenty-first century: Paving a new silk road

R Pomfret - 2019 - torrossa.com
The five Central Asian countries became independent with the dissolution of the Soviet
Union on December 25, 1991, but remain little known outside the region. Initially, many …

[图书][B] Area studies at the crossroads: knowledge production after the mobility turn

K Mielke, AK Hornidge - 2017 - Springer
In this pioneering volume, leading scholars from a diversity of backgrounds in the
humanities, social sciences, and different area studies argue for a more differentiated and …

Exploring inter-firm knowledge through contractual governance: a case study of production contracts for faba-bean procurement in France

C Cholez, MB Magrini, D Galliano - Journal of Rural Studies, 2020 - Elsevier
A major sustainability challenge in European agriculture is to develop legume production.
But organizing new legume supply-chains is a knowledge-intensive process, due to low past …

Developing Policy from the Ground Up: Examining Entitlement in the Bay Area to Inform California's Housing Policy Debates

M O'Neill, G Gualco-Nelson, E Biber - Hastings Envt'l LJ, 2019 - HeinOnline
Reducing vehicle miles traveled through increasing the use of public transit and improving
transit access is critical to reduce greenhouse gas (" GHG") emissions in California. Housing …

The more-than-economic dimensions of cooperation in food production

SB Emery, J Forney, S Wynne-Jones - Journal of Rural Studies, 2017 - Elsevier
Moving forwards from an extensive literature on farmers' cooperatives, this Special Issue
aims to explore the interaction and interdependence of multiple material and immaterial …

[HTML][HTML] How institutions governing the economic middle in food provisioning are reinforced: The case of an agri-food cluster in northern Uganda

M Schoonhoven-Speijer, S Vellema - Journal of Rural Studies, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•A diverse ensemble of intermediary traders jointly shape access to food.•The food
cluster is recognized internally and externally as an institution for trade.•A practice-oriented …

Trade-offs among sustainability goals in the Central Asian livestock sector: A research review

S Robinson, M Petrick - 2021 - jlupub.ub.uni-giessen.de
The SDGnexus Network (SDGNN) establishes a common research framework for the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), supporting research, networking and capacity …

Why does sharecropping survive? Agrarian institutions and contract choice in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

N Mukhamedova, R Pomfret - Comparative economic studies, 2019 - Springer
A century ago, Alfred Marshall demonstrated the inefficiency associated with farmers
receiving only a portion of their marginal product. Farmers will supply less labor than under …

Post-Soviet agricultural restructuring: A success story after all?

M Petrick - Comparative Economic Studies, 2021 - Springer
Challenging the initial expectation that all post-Soviet economies will evolve from collective
toward fully individualized farming, I argue that they separated into two different reform …