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Modifying Argentina: GM soy and socio-environmental change

Amalia Leguizamón
- 01 May 2014 - 
- Vol. 53, pp 149-160
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In this article, the authors examine Argentina's agro-export strategy for socioeconomic development based on the adoption and expansion of genetically modified (GM) soy and argue that the GM soy-based agroexport model as currently configured in Argentina is a socially and ecologically unsustainable model of national development.
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This article is published in Geoforum.The article was published on 2014-05-01. It has received 142 citations till now.

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Maize Root Architecture and Water Stress Tolerance: An Approximation from Crop Models

TL;DR: Carretero et al. as mentioned in this paper presented a study of the relationship between Agronomia and AgroSciences, and the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CNCIT).
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Drivers of Agricultural Land Prices in Terms of Different Functions of Rural Areas in Poland

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the drivers of land values in a leading agricultural region of Poland based on a sample of 653 transactions from 2010-2013, and found that single area payments contribute noto land value mainly in the peripheral areas and payments for public good under SAPS decapitalize the value of land, because they do not compensate for the opportunity costs related to alternative ways of deriving rent from the land.
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The effects of use values, amenities and payments for public goods on farmland prices: Evidence from Poland*

TL;DR: In this article, the authors carried out a comprehensive review of the literature on the actual determinants of land value and made an attempt to classify different approaches to this matter and performed an empirical case study of the drivers of agricultural land values in a leading agricultural region of Poland.
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Land use and pollution in a two-sector evolutionary model

TL;DR: In this paper, an evolutionary dual model is proposed to study heterogeneity of agriculture from an environmental perspective, and the authors find that, in case of trade-off between the three dimensions, farmers' welfare grows along structural changes which allocate increasingly more land to the agricultural subsector with lower pollution intensity regardless its resilience and land productivity performance.
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Our common future

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A Brief History of Neoliberalism

David Harvey
TL;DR: The Neoliberal State and Neoliberalism with 'Chinese Characteristics' as mentioned in this paper is an example of the Neoliberal state in the context of Chinese characteristics of Chinese people and its relationship with Chinese culture.
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism

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