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Dawei Special Economic Zone
Special Economic Zone Dawei
The Dawei Special Economic Zone is an industrial development project in southern Myanmar. remarks Burma and Thailand have agreed on a MoU of Understanding which allows the Italian-Thai Development Society (ITD) to start work on the deepwater harbor infrastructures in Dawee. Launched in 2008, the initial plan was to construct and design a harbour, a motorway to and from Myanmar and Thailand, as well as industry areas, offices, residential and other infrastructures.
Due to the size of the projekt, however, the projekt has never started. Dawei Special Economic Zone Management Committee met in August 2015 and March 2016 and approved that Italian-Thai Plc. and other associated entities may commence work on the deepwater area.
This deepwater harbour covers 27 km2, the overall area of the site is 196 km2. Dawei SEZ Management Committee was established on 12 October 2016 with members of the Special Economic Zone Central Management Committee and international expe- perts. Dr Tun Naing, Trade Union Minister for Electricity and Energy, was appointed Chair of the Dawei SEZ Management Committee.
The Italian-Thai Plc. group of businesses must prepare a Dawei socio environmental sustainability assessment before the start of the operation. You must also legalize the leasing of land in the area for the site. They will then have to await a communication from the Dawei SEZ Management Committee to start the work.
Myanmar, Thailand and Japan concluded a MOI on July 4, 2015, allowing the three nations to establish Dawei SEZ Development Co. as a special-property company. You will also prepare a blueprint for the piloting and carry out a viability assessment for the motorway work.
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is carrying out a study for the deep-sea harbor development plan, which includes the construction of an electricity network, the essential infrastructures and the building that will start once the model is complete. An information and education drive was launched on 19 January to increase the visibility of the work.
Dr. Tun Naing, CEO of Dawei SEZ, said that the Ministry of Power and Energy has worked with the government of the Tanintharyi region and is installing 12 natural gaz motors that will provide 12 MW of power to Dawei SEZ. It also said that the Government of the Union has projects for the further expansion of the two areas of Dawei and Myeik in the Tanintharyi region.
Said her ministry was in negotiation with the Asia Development Bank to obtain a low interest lending to her. He said if the account is earned then they will begin building two 230KV electrical substations in Yay City and Dawei. Mawlamyine' s Yay ward will be powered and sent to the Dawei school.
Said the work is expected to take 2 years and they anticipate it to start in 2019. Under the second scheme, a JV will be created with France's totally owned multi-national integral petroleum and natural gas giant Totale S.A. and Siemens AG, a Germany-based diversified group with a business unit in the power industry.
It would be located in Kanpauk and imports LNG by sea. The river is then directed to Dawei, just South of Kanpauk. Dr Tun Naing said that if both power generation projects from Dawei are complete, 500KV from the Kanpauk pipeline can be sent via Mawlamyine to Payargyi, which will in turn be beneficial to Kayin, Mon, Bago and the Yangon region.
Dawei SEZ is to become the biggest industry and trading zone in Southeast Asia. When completed, it will link Dawei with Bangkok, Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Min City.
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South Korea society, like many others, is deeply patriarchal. While it has advanced technologically and economically at an alarming rate, society continues to straddle both Western influences and traditional Confucian values. Although it is predominantly patriarchal, more and more women are taking part in the corporate work force, even securing top managerial positions. Misaeng, both the drama series and the manhwa, has become extremely popular amongst South Korea white-collar workers. As ratings steadily rise and manhwa sales hit a million, it's easy to see what makes this series a big hit.
Women in the workplace is a topic the drama tackles head on. Female lead, Kang Sora had been in the spotlight ever since she took up this project and everyone was particularly impressed by her fluent English. In the series, Kang Sora, as intern Young Yi, is in the spotlight right from the start. In following episodes, we also see the character Ji-Young, deputy director at One International.
Young Yi is the top intern. She succeeds in her solo presentation. She boldly puts on the products and presents them to a (presumably) American representative of a company selling padded lingerie. While 3 of her senior colleagues – including the team manager – stand behind her, she speaks in fluent English and impresses the rep in a short time. They close the deal and Young Yi gets endlessly praised by her team.
Not only is she the best, Young-Yi is the only female intern in the entire batch. The first few episodes depict her as the favourite intern: all the team managers want her on their team. The entire floor, consisting of several departments, appears to only have a small pool of female employees. They probably have one female team member on each team. While Young-Yi has proven herself well enough as an intern, she can't do much when she gets officially hired as a full-time employee and joins the resource team.
As the one intern to sail through her internship, it is rather surprising to find her facing horrible treatment from her senior colleague in the resources team. You would think that your colleagues would only pick on you if you are completely incompetent (like the series' protagonist, Geu Rae) but her senior colleague refuses to work with her and bullies her into doing unnecessary tasks within the team's cubicle. While she diligently heeds his every command, hoping that this will help her get some sort of approval from him, the team manager silently watches on. By not stepping in, in some way, he is condoning this bullying.
It may appear that these troubles are because she is just an intern but it applies just the same to deputy director Ji Young. Ji Young may not get hostile treatment as Young Yi does but her storyline also highlights the troubles of being female in a managerial corporate position.
Obviously, Ji Young has had a tough time. If things were worse when she started out – as it is for Young Yi as a newbie – it goes to show it never gets easier from then on. After getting married and having a child, she struggles to keep work and family in balance. But things don't work the way she wants. While she continues to do a great job at work, sitting in a highly respected position, she has to struggle in conditions that do not favour her as a woman. Knowing this, she tells Young Yi to choose between marriage and work. She loves working but she also knows that her work became a burden after she got married and gave birth. Not only is she expected to do equally as well – perhaps much better – than her male counterparts in the corporate setting, she is expected to fulfil her role as a wife and mother.
In the predominantly patriarchal society that South Korea continues to be, there is no room for excuses. Most of the men in the company show no respect for women. They lash out in rage when women make mistakes by proclaiming that these are obvious reasons why they don't trust women and why women should stay out of corporate workplaces.
While fiction and most Korean dramas are usually not very accurate portrayals of real-life, this drama and its original manhwa seem to be fairly true-to-life as proven by its popularity amongst the white-collar population of South Korea. Obviously, there are people like Chief Oh who refuses to use women to get his way with clients and shows much more respect for women than most other men in One International. Yet the series seems to be telling its audience that evil prevails in the corporate world and the working environment in which women have to thrive in appears to be much more toxic than most people would like to believe.
Women in South Korea face a lot of struggles that most men may never have to deal with. While women like Ji Young continue to work in spite of the difficulty of striking the balance between her duty as a mother and wife with her role as deputy director, many women in corporate settings choose to quit their jobs in order to live up to the expectation of women to be mothers and wives. When they make that choice, as they often do in South Korea and various East Asian countries, they quickly lose their identities as individuals.
This can be seen in various ways. Women in the workplace are usually called by their first names (eg. Ji Young-ssi, Young Yi-ssi, etc.) but women who are wives or mothers are often called by (insert name of husband or child)'s wife or mother. It turns an individual into nothing more than someone else's someone. The woman, in the end, fades into the background; dedicating her life and energy to her family while having her own individual identity stripped away at the same time.
Misaeng was absolutely an incredible show. I want to rewatch it again. I wish someone compiles a list of quotes from the show. I wasn't surprised over how women in the show were treated in the corporate world. I was however surprised over the physical violence against young yi from her boss. Throwing paper at her and one of her boss threw coffee at her. Even the cursing was disturbing. I was just shocked that her bosses didn't think of the reprucusions of their actions. Also, it sucked that she basically had to be a maid for her bossses before they accepted her.
I agree. It is the best Korean Drama in my opinion by far.
It is realistic in a sense, and it isn't the same thing that K Drama watchers see over and over and over again.
I found out about the show after it was done airing and watched all twenty episodes within a few days.
Phenomenal series and quite underrated in my opinion. It was a far better series than You Who Came from the Stars, which I found to be a copy of many other different series such as "Can You Hear Me".
I agree. It is the best Korean Drama in my opinion by far. It is realistic in a sense, and it isn't the same thing that K Drama watchers see over and over and over again. I found out about the show after it was done airing and watched all twenty episodes within a few days. Phenomenal series and quite underrated in my opinion. It was a far better series than You Who Came from the Stars, which I found to be a copy of many other different series such as "Can You Hear Me".
Misaeng was absolutely an incredible show. I want to rewatch it again. I wish someone compiles a list of quotes from the show. I wasn't surprised over how women in the show were treated in the corporate world. I was however surprised over the physical violence against young yi from her boss. Throwing paper at her and one of her boss threw coffee at her. Even the cursing was disturbing. I was just shocked that her bosses didn't think of the reprucusions of their actions. Also, it sucked that she basically had to be a maid for her bossses before they accepted her.


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, né le  à Dax et mort le  dans la même ville, est un dirigeant français de rugby à XV.

Il préside le club de l'US Dax pendant environ  dans les années 1960 et 1970.

Biographie
Né le  à Dax, René Dassé intègre l'US Dax très jeune par l'intermédiaire de son environnement familial. Son père Ernest Dassé préside en effet la section natation du club omnisports, au sein de laquelle ses frères Jean, Henri et André sont par ailleurs licenciés. René pratique quant à lui parmi les équipes de jeunes de rugby.

Victime d'une balle perdue à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il est gravement blessé et perd un rein. Après la guerre, il est contraint de mettre fin à sa carrière sportive, mais choisit de rester au club en intégrant l'équipe dirigeante. Il devient président de la commission du rugby en 1957. À l'issue de la saison 1957-1958, il prend la présidence du club de rugby, d'après le souhait de son prédécesseur Didier Castex ; il est entouré pendant une année de transition par d'« anciens » cadres du club avant de constituer sa propre équipe dirigeante. En parallèle, il prend la tête de la présidence générale du club omnisports en 1960, succédant à Pierre Marque.

Dassé occupe par ailleurs des hauts postes dans d'autres organismes du rugby français en dehors de la cité landaise. Il occupe la présidence du comité Côte basque en 1966, puis la vice-présidence de la Fédération française de rugby qu'il quittera en 1976.

Homme d'affaires en dehors du monde du rugby, il possède une société de bâtiments préfabriqués créée par ses soins en 1954 dans la ville landaise de Castets.

En 1976, Gaston Lesbats lui succède à la présidence du comité Côte basque. Il passe le relais en 1980 à Paul Lasaosa à la tête du club omnisports, un an après avoir fait de même auprès du club de rugby.

Dassé meurt le  dans sa ville natale.

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Chinese and Comparative Philosophy 中國哲學與比較哲學
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Olberding: "Degenerate Skepticism and the Thieves of Philosophy"
Amy Olberding has published an essay called "Degenerate Skepticism and the Thieves of Philosophy" on the "Department of Deviance" website. She explains the essay's origin:
An essay presented at a special APA session on what Chinese philosophy can contribute to contemporary philosophy. There are increasingly many sessions at APA meetings pitched to offer the non-specialist an entry into "non-western" philosophy. Rarely are these attended by anyone who is not already a specialist in "non-western" philosophy. The essay here is not about how Chinese philosophy can contribute to contemporary debate. It is instead a polemic about the folly of this question in the current atmosphere within the discipline.
Published by Steve Angle, in American Philosophical Association, Chinese philosophy - 中國哲學 - 中国哲学, philosophy canon, Profession.	6 Replies
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Steve Angle says:
I thought I would append a slightly more hopeful comment to this posting about Amy's brilliant, caustic, and deeply gloomy essay. It's true that every time there's some kind of "we need to be more open" gesture, we hear just the kind of uninformed "degenerate skepticism" that Amy skewers. And it's also true that sessions like the one she describes at the APA are often pretty empty of those at whom they are aimed.
At the same time, there were a bunch of new jobs this year. Departments across the country decided, for a variety of different reasons, to consider expanding into Chinese (or Asian, or Non-Western) philosophy. It remains to be seen how many of the searches succeeded, as well as how many of those with multiple disjuncts ended up hiring people doing Chinese/Asian/Non-Western philosophy. But I think that there is no question that Chinese philosophy within philosophy departments in the US is growing and increasingly vibrant.
Finally, for what it's worth, I'm not so sure I would say the same for more traditional sinological study of Chinese traditions of thought: there are a few folks at top universities, but it's pretty bleak beyond that, from what I can see, and the AAS is almost completely devoid of philosophy/thought panels. I mention this in response to Amy's comment that "…all while many of my own specialist colleagues abandon the discipline for academic departments where they can expect far better." I am sure she has some specific cases in mind, and I don't deny that this might happen. But I don't think that's the trend.
Paul R. Goldin says:
Oh, I certainly think it's a trend, and if you're having a hard time thinking of examples, consider Yours Truly–not to mention all of my students over the years. You're quite right that there aren't many philosophy/thought panels at AAS conferences, but (a) that says more about the AAS selection committees than it does about philosophy/thought in Chinese studies today, and (b) if you're not finding much philosophy/thought, I have to wonder whether your personal definition of "philosophy/thought" is a bit degenerately skeptical (in Amy's sense) as well. We tend to get tired of hearing that what we do isn't philosophy because we're not in philosophy departments.
If you really need other examples, how about these, just off the top of my head …
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low
Stephen Bokenkamp
Peter K. Bol
Erica F. Brindley
Robert F. Campany
Karine Chemla
Constance A. Cook
Scott Cook
Christopher Cullen
Carine Defoort
Benjamin Elman
Paul van Els
Lothar von Falkenhausen
Daniel K. Gardner
Romain Graziani
Lisa Indraccolo
Lionel Jensen
Martin Kern
Anne B. Kinney
Esther Klein
Keith N. Knapp
Michael Lackner
G.E.R. Lloyd
On-cho Ng
Michael Nylan
Yuri Pines
Fabrizio Pregadio
Michael Puett
Sarah A. Queen
Heiner Roetz
Elisa Sabattini
Haun Saussy
David Schaberg
Christian Schwermann
Edward L. Shaughnessy
Nathan Sivin
Rudolf Wagner
OIiver Weingarten
Robin D.S. Yates
You'd have to let them speak for themselves, but my guess is that none of them would be happier in a philosophy department. And no one could pretend that they haven't contributed to understanding Chinese philosophy.
(If you don't find your name on this list, please don't be offended–I had to write this in haste.)
Just remembered Mark Csikszentmihalyi!
But I won't keep coming back to add names because I think the point is clear.
Hi Paul, c'mon, surely you know me well enough to know that I have enormous respect for the historically/textually focused work on Chinese thought of you and the folks on this list? You and I have talked about this plenty of times. The issue isn't whether these approaches are valuable! At most what I am questioning is whether sinological studies of Chinese philosophy are (1) growing, and (2) continuing to draw "specialist colleagues" away from philosophy and into sinological studies of philosophy. My non-scientific sense had been that — sadly — this is not so much a growth field right now, because of larger academic trends. But I would be happy to be mistaken about that!
Within a broad context of retrenchment in the humanities–I certainly agree with you about that–my sense is that there has actually been growth in Chinese philosophy. Empirically speaking, I'm pretty sure there are more positions now than in the past. But I still think a large proportion of students seriously interested in Chinese thought are drawn more toward non-philosophy departments, and the vexed reception of Chinese philosophy within philosophy departments has a lot to do with it. My perspective might be biased because that's exactly the kind of student I attract. But I do have a pretty broad view of the field precisely because I dabble in multiple disciplines, so I don't think my perceptions are totally off-base.
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"I'd like to know what ingredients would be present, say for example with a packet of cigarettes, you flip it to the side and you know what exactly you are smoking," she said.
"I want to know what's in there."
She was one of about 20 people who showed up to the session put on by the territorial government.
The public feedback will be used to help the government of the Northwest Territories draft its cannabis legislation.


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Better cover artwork this time! - 74%
Corimngul, February 16th, 2005
The extraordinary thing about Wolf's second album isn't that the best song is a Mercyful Fate song. Mercyful Fate actually succeeded in doing that on seven full-lengths, two EP:s, two singles – well every release they've done. No, the extraordinary thing is the vast amounts of appraisals they get while they don't really deserve it. Sure, they can play. Sure, they play old-school heavy metal. Sure, they love the genre. The sad thing is that if you've heard one song – well then you've heard 40 minutes of the album – that is the entire album but the Mercyful Fate cover.
Tremolo picking, tremolo picking – they know how to that at least. Drums are sped up but monotonous. Guitars distorted to the level when they've not yet become dark but haven't dropped the shiny part either. And what do I hear – isn't that the good old heavy metal song concept? Tremolo, an occasional tap on another string, repeat two times, change key, riff, chord – and then a vocalist comes into the picture who isn't your usual high-pitched man but an annoying nasal one. When he tries singing high the words get hard to distinguish from each other and the voice drowns in the music.
And it's the same every song. Sure, they play fast, heavy old-school traditional metal. Sure, they're one of the few bands doing so today. They're probably the best band in the genre as we speak, but listening to the old-school material, which was actually released during the golden era, kicks this album's ass, applies the whip harshly and remorselessly. Not that the songs aren't high quality – they just sound the same. Listening to a random song at a random time, or in a V.A. compilation, surely works. Listening to the songs one and one sees the genius behind it all. But my attention span is way to short to listen to the same song over and over again, with new lyrics if I'm lucky. They don't revolve about too many subjects.
Venom is an interesting song, being such a carried through one, tremolo, tremolo, tremolo… The rhythm is simplistic, yet addictive. It has great lyrics too, but the generally annoying vocals yet utterly and extremely poor this time. The rhythm and melody is, with few changes, kept in the next song which has the typical tremolo too, somewhat enfeebled though. And the chorus bear for a few seconds a resemblance with Blind Guardian! I tell you no shit, a lot of the bands we all love have been influential here (Maiden, Judas Priest, some more NWOBHM), yet Wolf wouldn't like to be a complete rip-off, so they've done their changes, added a new sound façade. It's just a shame that the copier manages to be on a level so far below that of the originals.


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Western Muslims and the Future of Islam
Tariq Ramadan is one of Europe's leading thinkers and one of Islam's most innovative and important voices
Offers a striking vision of a new Muslim Identity
In a Western world suddenly acutely interested in Islam, one question has been repeatedly heard above the din: where are the Muslim reformers? With this ambitious volume, Tariq Ramadan firmly establishes himself as one of Europe's leading thinkers and one of Islam's most innovative and important voices.
As the number of Muslims living in the West grows, the question of what it means to be a Western Muslim becomes increasingly important to the futures of both Islam and the West. While the media are focused on radical Islam, Ramadan claims, a silent revolution is sweeping Islamic communities in the West, as Muslims actively seek ways to live in harmony with their faith within a Western context. French, English, German, and American Muslims--women as well as men--are reshaping their religion into one that is faithful to the principles of Islam, dressed in European and American cultures, and definitively rooted in Western societies.
Ramadan's goal is to create an independent Western Islam, anchored not in the traditions of Islamic countries but in the cultural reality of the West. He begins by offering a fresh reading of Islamic sources, interpreting them for a Western context and demonstrating how a new understanding of universal Islamic principles can open the door to integration into Western societies. He then shows how these principles can be put to practical use. Ramadan contends that Muslims can-indeed must-be faithful to their principles while participating fully in the civic life of Western secular societies. Grounded in scholarship and bold in its aims, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam offers a striking vision of a new Muslim Identity, one which rejects once and for all the idea that Islam must be defined in opposition to the West.
Tariq Ramadan was formerly Professor of Philosophy at the College of Geneva and Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He is the author of numerous books, including To Be a European Muslim. In 2000 he was named one of Time's 100 most important innovators for the 21st century.
"In the spirit of interfaith dialogue, which Ramadan embraces, one might as well describe this book as a splendid practical catechism for Muslims in the West. There is much food for thought in it as well for non-Muslim majorities in the West and Muslim majorities in the Middle East. The book is at its best when it describes and interprets the recent explosion of accusations of witchcraft and other superstitions in the region and links them to the exercise of political power." --Foreign Affairs
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Immigrants and activists protest near the White House to demand that the Department of Homeland Security extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 195,000 Salvadorans on January 8, 2018 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)
'Cruel' New Proposal Shows Trump Wants to Punish Immigrants Who Receive Public Benefits
Rights groups and anti-poverty advocates argued the rule changes could threaten the healthcare of hundreds of thousands of immigrants.
In a potential policy change that immigrant rights advocates and anti-poverty groups warned could threaten the healthcare of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, a leaked draft proposal obtained by the Washington Post on Wednesday revealed that the Trump administration is considering making it harder for immigrants who have received "almost any form of welfare or public benefit" to become permanent legal residents.
"This is really scary stuff from an administration solely focused on criminalizing as many immigrants and Americans around immigrants as possible."
--Alida GarciaAccording to the Post, immigrants who have benefited or are deemed likely to benefit from the Earned Income Tax Credit, certain healthcare subsidies, and other "non-cash public benefits" would be negatively affected by the proposal, which was crafted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
"Immigrants and their families facing a short-term crisis could potentially have to forgo help to avoid jeopardizing their U.S. residency status," the Post notes. "The changes would apply to those seeking immigration visas [and] could affect immigrants protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program."
Additionally, the Post reports that under the DHS rules--which officials say have yet to be finalized but are expected to be published in the Federal Register this year--"children would be considered a negative factor for caseworkers evaluating whether an immigrant is likely to use some form of public assistance or benefit."
Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, argued in a tweet on Wednesday that, if implemented, these rules "could make it nearly impossible for an immigrant working in low-wage industries to become citizens."
Other immigrant rights advocates and anti-poverty groups also reacted with alarm to the leaked proposals, calling them a "cruel" intensification of Trump's already expansive war on immigrant communities.
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\u201cThis is both cruel and counterproductive.\n\n"Immigrants who accept almost any form of welfare or public benefit, even popular tax deductions, could be denied legal U.S. residency under a proposal awaiting approval" by Trump admin. \n\nhttps://t.co/hZAn04nhlj\u201d
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In an interview with the Post, Mark Greenberg, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, argued the latest leaked draft represents an escalation from previously reported proposals by the Trump White House to penalize immigrants who receive public benefits--proposals that were sharply denounced at the time as an effort to deter immigrants from applying for public benefits like child nutrition programs.
"It's striking that after strong public criticism of a leaked draft rule, the administration seems to be considering a version that goes even further, and they're actively considering whether to use this rule to create new grounds for deporting legal immigrants," Greenberg said.
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The Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development at the University of Pretoria continues to support a long-standing effort led by Frikkie Liebenberg to develop a consistent set of input, output and productivity accounts for South African Agriculture. InSTePP remains actively involved in this effort, which is reaching beyond South Africa to include similar efforts for other countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The devil is definitely in the data details when developing meaningful measures of labor, capital, or other input use in agriculture. Careful attention is being given to maintaining consistency in the underlying data and applying modern methods of aggregation so that the resulting estimates can be meaningfully compared among countries and over time.
"Status and Epidemiology of Maize Lethal Necrotic Disease in Northern Tanzania"
Fatma Hussein Kiruwa, Samuel Mutiga, Joyce Njuguna, Eunice Machuka, Senait Senay, Tileye Feyissa, Patrick Alois Ndakidemi and Francesca Stomeo
Pathogens 9 (1) (January 2020)
Status and Epidemiology of Maize Lethal Necrotic Disease in Northern Tanzania
"Design Factors Influencing Willingness‐to‐Pay Estimates in the Becker‐DeGroot‐Marschak (BDM) Mechanism and the Non‐hypothetical Choice Experiment: A Case of Biofortified Maize in Zambia"
Priscilla Hamukwala, Adewale Oparinde, Hans Peter Binswanger‐Mkhize and Johann Kirsten
Journal of Agricultural Economics 70 (1) (February 2019): 81-100
Design Factors Influencing Willingness‐to‐Pay Estimates in the Becker‐DeGroot‐Marschak (BDM) Mechanism Non‐hypothetical Choice..
"Closing the Gaps in Experimental-Observational Crop Responses Estimates: Bayesian Approach"
Maxwell Mkondiwa
Paper presented at Agricultural Economics Society Annual Conference, 93rd, Warwick, England, April 15-17, 2019
Closing the Gaps in Experimental-Observational Crop Responses Estimates: Bayesian Approach
"Estimating and Attributing Benefits from Wheat Varietal Innovations in South African Agriculture"
Charity R. Nhemachena, Johann F. Kirsten and Frikkie G. Liebenberg
Agrekon 58 (1) (2019): 68-85
"The Role of Risk in the Context of Climate Change, Land Use Choices and Crop Production: Evidence from Zambia"
Alessandro De Pinto, Vincent H. Smith and Richard D. Robertson
Climate Research 79 (1) (2019): 39-53
The Role of Risk in the Context of Climate Change, Land Use Choices and Crop Production: Evidence from Zambia
"Public Agricultural Research and Development Spending in South Africa – Update"
Petronella Chaminuka, Nienke Beintema, Kathleen Flaherty and Frikkie Liebenberg
Agrekon, 58 (1) (2019): 7-20
"Recalibrating South African Agricultural Growth: Frikkie Liebenberg in Memoriam"
Johann Kirsten, Philip Pardey and Colin Thirtle
Agrekon 58 (1) (2019): 3-6
"Measuring Maize in South Africa: The Shifting Structure of Production During the Twentieth Century, 1904–2015"
Jan C. Greyling and Philip G. Pardey
** awarded 2019 Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA) Best Article Published in Agrekon
"Quality Adjusting Agricultural Machinery in South Africa"
Colleta Gandidzanwa, Frikkie Liebenberg, Ferdi Meyer and Beatrice Conradie
"Economic Value of Quality Restrictions on the Wheat Industry in South Africa"
Zwiafhela Naledzani, Petronella Chaminuka, Kenneth Nhundu, Charles L. Machethe and Frikkie Liebenberg
Agrekon 58 (1) (2019): 102-112
"Economic Returns from Investment in Beef Cattle Improvement Research in South Africa"
Takalani T. Nevondo, Petronella Chaminuka, Kenneth Nhundu and Frikkie Liebenberg
V. Smith, A. De Pinto and R. Robertson
Paper for International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) Conference, 10th, Vancouver, Canada, July 28-August 2, 2018
"Land Fragmentation with Double Dividends – The Case of Tanzanian Agriculture"
Xudong Rao
European Review of Agricultural Economics, 46 (4) (September 2019): 609-635
Land Fragmentation with Double Dividends – The Case of Tanzanian Agriculture
"African Agriculture Is Intensifying -- But Not by Much"
Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize and Sara Savastano
Chapter 11 in Agriculture in Africa: Telling Myths from Facts, eds. Luc Christiaensen and Lionel Demery, (Washington DC: World Bank, 2018), pp. 95-103
Agriculture in Africa: Telling Myths from Facts
"Does Research and Development (R&D) Investment Lead to Economic Growth? Evidence from the South African Peach and Nectarine Industry"
Cheidza Z. Tsvakirai, Frikkie Liebenberg and Johann F. Kirsten
African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development 10 (4) (2018): 463-472
"Is Wealth Found in the Soil or Brain? Investing in Farm People in Malawi"
Paper presented at the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) 2018 Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 28-August 2, 2018
Is Wealth Found in the Soil or Brain? Investing in Farm People in Malawi
"Weather Risk: How Does It Change the Yield Benefits of Nitrogen Fertilizer and Improved Maize Varieties in Sub-Saharan Africa?"
Terrance Hurley, Jawoo Koo and Kindie Tesfaye
Agricultural Economics, 49 (6) (November 2018): 711-723
Previously published as HarvestChoice Working Paper, St. Paul, MN: HarvestChoice, October 15, 2016
Weather Risk: How Does It Change the Yield Benefits of Nitrogen Fertilizer and Improved Maize Varieties... (Journal Article)
Weather Risk: How Does It Change the Yield Benefits of Nitrogen Fertilizer and Improved Maize Varieties... (Working Paper)
"Agricultural Intensification: The Status in Six African Countries"
Food Policy 67 (February 2017): 26-40
Agricultural Intensification: The Status in Six African Countries
"Transforming African Economies and the Evolving Structure of African Agriculture"
Johann Kirsten and Frikkie Liebenberg
Chapter 6 in Agriculture and Rural Development in a Globalizing World: Challenges and Opportunities, eds. Prabhu Pingali and Gershon Feder, (New York, NY: Routledge, 2017), pp. 105-129
Transforming African Economies and the Evolving Structure of African Agriculture (Preview)
Agriculture and Rural Development in a Globalizing World: Challenges and Opportunities (Preview)
"Economic Rate of Return to Plum Research Investments in South Africa"
Precious M. Tshabalala, Frikkie Liebenberg and Johann Kirsten
Selected Paper presented at Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, July 30-August 1, 2017
Economic Rate of Return to Plum Research Investments in South Africa
"Agricultural Policies in South Africa"
Nick Vink, Johann Kirsten, Frikkie Liebenberg, Jan C. Greyling and Ferdi Meyer
Chapter 15 in Handbook of International Food and Agricultural Policies, Volume 1: Policies for Agricultural Markets and Rural Economic Activity, eds. William H. Meyers and Thomas Johnson, (Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2018), pp. 333-353
Handbook of International Food and Agricultural Policies, Volume 1 (Table of Contents)
"Vulnerability of Barley to African Pathotypes of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici and Sources of Resistance"
B.J. Steffenson, A.J. Case, Z.A. Pretorius, V. Coetzee, F.J. Kloppers, H. Zhou, Y. Chai, R. Wanyera, G. Macharia, S. Bhavani, and S. Grando
Phytopathology 107 (8) (August 2017): 950-962
Vulnerability of Barley to African Pathotypes of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici and Sources of Resistance
"Graphical Analysis of Agricultural Research Spillover Potential"
Economics of Innovation and New Technology 26 (6) (2017)
Prepublication
Proximity to African Agricultural Markets, Down to the Last Kilometer
Alison B. Joglekar and Philip G. Pardey
HarvestChoice Brief, St. Paul, MN: HarvestChoice, October 2016
"The Evolving Landscape of Plant Breeders' Rights Regarding Wheat Varieties in South Africa"
Charity R. Nhemachena, Frikkie G. Liebenberg and Johann Kirsten
South African Journal of Science 112 (3-4) (March-April 2016)
The Evolving Landscape of Plant Breeders' Rights Regarding Wheat Varieties in South Africa
"The Impact of Urban Growth on Agricultural and Rural Non-Farm Growth in Kenya"
Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize, Timothy Johnson, Paul Chimuk Samboko and Liangzhi You
Paper presented at African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE) Fifth International Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, September 23-26, 2016
The Impact of Urban Growth on Agricultural and Rural Non-Farm Growth in Kenya
"Towards a New Capital Formation Series for Machinery in South African Agriculture"
Colleta Gandidzanwa and Frikkie Liebenberg
"Developing Consistent Estimates of Marginal Effects in a Simultaneous Equation Model with Limited Dependent Variables"
Joseph Atwood, Alison Joglekar and Vincent H. Smith
Selected Paper presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) 2016 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, July 31-August 2, 2016
Developing Consistent Estimates of Marginal Effects in a Simultaneous Equation Model with Limited Dependent Variables
"Does Participation in Public Works Programs Encourage Fertilizer Use in Rural Ethiopia?"
Laura Villegas, Vincent H. Smith, Joe Atwood and Eric Belasco
International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics 4 (2) (2016): 101-124
Does Participation in Public Works Programs Encourage Fertilizer Use in Rural Ethiopia?
"Returns to Food and Agricultural R&D Investments in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1975–2014"
Philip G. Pardey, Robert S. Andrade, Terrance M. Hurley, Xudong Rao and Frikkie G. Liebenberg
Food Policy, 65 (December 2016): 1-8
Returns to Food and Agricultural R&D Investments in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1975–2014
Documentation - InSTePP Returns to Research (RtR) Database
The South Africa Agriculture Public Expenditure Review
Frikkie Liebenberg, Moraka Nakedi Makhura and Kate Moloto
Washington, DC: World Bank, January 2015
"Downscaling Pest Risk Analyses: Identifying Current and Future Potentially Suitable Habitats for Parthenium hysterophorus with Particular Reference to Europe and North Africa"
Darren J. Kriticos, Sarah Brunel, Noboru Ota, Guillaume Fried, Alfons G.J.M. Oude Lansink, F. Dane Panetta, T.V. Ramachandra Prasad, Asad Shabbir and Tuvia Yaacoby
PLOS One 10 (9) (September 1, 2015): e0132807
Downscaling Pest Risk Analyses
"Crop Improvement, Adoption, and Impact of Improved Bean Varieties in Sub-Saharan Africa" (Dataset)
Rachel Muthoni Andriatsitohaina and Robert Andrade
Cali, Colombia: International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) Dataverse, Harvard Dataverse, V1, 2015
Crop Improvement, Adoption, and Impact of Improved Bean Varieties in Sub-Saharan Africa (Dataset)
"The Performance of Bean Improvement Programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa from the Perspectives of Varietal Output and Adoption"
R.A. Muthoni and Robert Andrade
Chapter 8 in Crop Improvement, Adoption, and Impact of Improved Varieties in Food Crops in Sub-Saharan Africa, eds. Thomas S. Walker and Jeffrey Alwang, (Boston, MA: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers and CAB International, 2015), pp.148-163
Crop Improvement, Adoption, and Impact of Improved Varieties in Food Crops in Sub-Saharan Africa (Table of Contents)
"Whither Broad or Spatially Specific Fertilizer Recommendations?"
MSc thesis. St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics, September 2015
**awarded University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics 2016 Masters Dissertation Award
Whither Broad or Spatially Specific Fertilizer Recommendations?
"Towards a New Capital Formation Series for Machinery in Agriculture: A Way to Improve Agricultural Productivity Measurements"
Colleta Gandizanwa, Frikkie Liebenberg and Johann F. Kirsten
Paper presented at the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) Conference, Milan, Italy, August 9-14, 2015
Towards a New Capital Formation Series for Machinery in Agriculture: A Way to Improve Agricultural Productivity Measurements
"Varietal Generation and Output"
Thomas S. Walker, Arega Alene, Jupiter Ndjeunga, Ricardo Labarta, Yigezu Yigezu, Aliou Diagne, Robert Andrade, R. Muthoni Andriatsitohaina, Hans de Groote, Kai Mausch, Chilot Yirga, Franklin Simtowe, Enid Katungi, Wellington Jogo, Moti Jaleta, S. Pandey and D. Kumara Charyulu
Chapter 18 in Crop Improvement, Adoption, and Impact of Improved Varieties in Food Crops in Sub-Saharan Africa, eds. Thomas S. Walker and Jeffrey Alwang, (Boston, MA: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers and CAB International, 2015), pp. 370-387
"Re-Estimating South African Agricultural Output Value, Price and Quantity Aggregates, 1910–2010"
Frikkie Liebenberg, Philip G. Pardey, Jason M. Beddow and Johann Kirsten
Agrekon 54 (4) (2015): 1-27
**awarded 2015 Agriculture Economics Association of South Africa (AASA) SJJ de Swart Award for the Best Article Published in Agrekon, 2nd Prize
"The Aggregate Economic Benefits of the National Cultivar Trials for Maize in South Africa with Specific Reference to the Highveld Region"
Thula Dlamini and Frikkie Liebenberg
"Varietal Adoption, Outcomes and Impact"
Thomas S. Walker, Jeffrey R. Alwang, Arega Alene, Jupiter Ndjeunga, Ricardo Labarta, Yigezu Yigezu, Aliou Diagne, Robert Andrade, R. Muthoni Andriatsitohaina, Hans de Groote, Kai Mausch, Chilot Yirga, Franklin Simtowe, Enid Katungi, Wellington Jogo, Moti Jaleta, S. Pandey and D. Kumara Charyulu
"Agrarian Reform in South Africa: Objectives, Evolutions and Results at National Level"
Ward Anseeuw, Frikkie Liebenberg and Johann Kirsten
Chapter 2 in South Africa's Agragarian Question, eds. Hubert Cochet, Ward Anseeuw and Sandrine Fréguin-Gresh, (Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press, 2015), pp. 28-51
South Africa's Agrarian Question (Table of Contents)
"Estimating the Economic Value of the National Cultivar Trials in South Africa: A Case for Sorghum, Sunflower, Soybeans and Dry Beans"
Thula Sizwe Dlamini, Litha Magingxa and Frikkie Liebenberg
Paper presented at Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA) Fourth Conference, Ancona, Italy, June 11-12, 2015
Estimating the Economic Value of the National Cultivar Trials in South Africa
"The Landscape of Farming: An Exploration of Spatial Bio-Economic Characterization Approaches"
Alison Kay Bittinger Joglekar
PhD dissertation. St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics, November 2015
The Landscape of Farming: An Exploration of Spatial Bio-Economic Characterization Approaches
"Agricultural Advisory Services in South Africa"
Frikkie Liebenberg
Discussion Paper, University of Pretoria, Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, July 17, 2015
Agricultural Advisory Services in South Africa
"Land Fragmentation with Double Bonuses -- The Case of Tanzanian Agriculture"
Selected Paper prepared for Agricultural and Applied Economic Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, July 27-29, 2014
Land Fragmentation with Double Bonuses -- The Case of Tanzanian Agriculture
"African Agricultural Productivity Growth and R&D in a Global Setting"
Philip G. Pardey
Chapter 6 in Frontiers in Food Policy: Perspectives on Sub-Saharan Africa, eds. Walter P. Falcon and Rosamond L. Naylor. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University, Stanford Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE), June 6, 2014)
African Agricultural Productivity Growth and R&D in a Global Setting
Frontiers in Food Policy: Perspectives on Sub-Saharan Africa
Measuring the Effectiveness of Crop Improvement Research in Sub-Saharan Africa from the Perspectives of Varietal Output, Adoption, and Change: 20 Crops, 30 Countries, and 1150 Cultivars in Farmers' Fields
Tom Walker, Arega Alene, Jupiter Ndjeunga, Ricardo Labarta, Yigezu Yigezu, Aliou Diagne, Robert Andrade, Rachel Muthoni Andriatsitohaina, Hugo De Groote, Kai Mausch, Chilot Yirga, Franklin Simtowe, Enid Katungi, Wellington Jogo, Moti Jaleta, and Sushil Pandey
Rome, Italy: Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) Secretariat, 2014
Measuring the Effectiveness of Crop Improvement Research in Sub-Saharan Africa from the Perspectives of Varietal Output, Adoptio
"Wheat Stem Rust Vulnerability"
Yuan Chai and Jason M. Beddow
In Atlas of African Agriculture Research and Development: Revealing Agriculture's Place in Africa, ed. Kate Sebastian, (Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2014), pp. 60-61.
Wheat Stem Rust Vulnerability
Atlas of African Agriculture Research and Development
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 7116, Washington, DC: World Bank Group, Africa Region, Office of the Chief Economist, November 2014
"Economic and Social Trends in Townships and Informal Settlements"
Hans Binswanger-Mkhize and Fernando Im
Chapter 3 in Economics of South African Townships: Special Focus on Diepsloot, ed. Sandeep Mahajan, (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2014), pp. 65-113
Economics of South African Townships: Special Focus on Diepsloot
"From Failure to Success in South African Land Reform"
Hans Binswanger-Mkhize
African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 9 (4) (December 2014): 253-269
From Failure to Success in South African Land Reform
"Poverty–Lack of Access to Adequate Safe Water Nexus: Evidence from Rural Malawi"
Maxwell Mkondiwa, Charles B.L. Jumbe and Kenneth A. Wiyo
African Development Review 25 (4) (December 2013): 537-550
"Comparative Analysis of Biofuels Policy Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Place of Private and Public Sectors"
Charles B.L. Jumbe and Maxwell Mkondiwa
Renewable Energy 50 (February 2013): 614-620
"Statistics on Farm Labour in South Africa"
Frikkie Liebenberg and Johann Kirsten
UP Agricultural Economics Working Paper 2013/2, Pretoria, South Africa: University of Pretoria, October 8, 2013
Statistics on Farm Labour in South Africa
"The Drivers and the Speed of Agricultural Intensification in Uganda"
Powerpoint presented at International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC) Symposium, Productivity and Its Impacts on Global Trade, Seville, Spain, June 2-4, 2013
The Drivers and the Speed of Agricultural Intensification in Uganda
"South African Agricultural Production, Productivity and Research Performance in the 20th Century"
PhD Thesis, Pretoria, South Africa: University of Pretoria, February 2013
South African Agricultural Production, Productivity and Research Performance in the 20th Century
"Developing Consistent Marginal Effect Estimates in a Simultaneous Equation Model with Limited Dependent Variables"
Joseph Atwood, Alison Bittinger and Vincent Smith
Staff Paper P13-1, St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics, March 2013
Developing Consistent Marginal Effect Estimates in a Simultaneous Equation Model with Limited Dependent Variables
"South African Agricultural Production and Investment Patterns"
Chapter 14 in Productivity Growth in Agriculture: An International Perspective, eds. K.O. Fuglie, V.E. Ball and S.L. Wang, (Wallingford, United Kingdom: CAB International, 2012), pp. 293-312
Productivity Growth in Agriculture: An International Perspective (Table of Contents)
"The Political Economy of Agricultural Incentives and Public Expenditures, with Special Reference to Africa"
Samuel Benin and Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize
Conference Working Paper 20, Prepared for the ASTI-IFPRI/FARA Conference, Accra Ghana, December 5-7, 2001, Washington, DC and Accra, Ghana: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), 2012
The Political Economy of Agricultural Incentives and Public Expenditures, with Special Reference to Africa
"The Role of Dynamic Learning Games in Improving Survey Information from Subsistence Farmers: Evidence from Malawi"
Vincent H. Smith, Paswel Marenya, Ephraim Nkonya and Klaus Droppelmann
Powepoint presented at Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, August 12-14, 2012
The Role of Dynamic Learning Games in Improving Survey Information from Subsistence Farmers: Evidence from Malawi
"Subsistence Farmer Preferences for Alternative Incentive Policies to Encourage the Adoption of Conservation Agriculture in Malawi: A Choice Elicitation Approach"
Paswel Phiri Marenya, Vincent H. Smith and Ephraim M. Nkonya
Paper presented at Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, August 12-14, 2012
Subsistence Farmer Preferences for Alternative Incentive Policies to Encourage the Adoption of Conservation Agriculture...
"A Breadbasket for Africa: Farming in the Guinea Savannah Zone"
Michael Morris, Hans Binswanger, Derek Byerlee and John Staatz
Solutions 3 (2) (April 2012): 44-49
A Breadbasket for Africa: Farming in the Guinea Savannah Zone
"A Long-Run View of South African Agricultural Production and Productivity"
Frikkie Liebenberg and Philip G. Pardey
African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 7 (1) (October 2012): 14-38
A Long-Run View of South African Agricultural Production and Productivity
"Patterns of Growth and Structural Transformation in Africa: Trends and Lessons for Future Development Strategies"
C. Peter Timmer, Margaret S. McMillan, Ousmane Badiane, Dani Rodrik, Hans Binswanger-Mkhize and Fleur Wouterse
WCAO Thematic Research Note 02, Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), April 2012
Patterns of Growth and Structural Transformation in Africa: Trends and Lessons for Future Development Strategies
"South African Agricultural R&D: Policies and Public Institutions, 1880-2007"
Agrekon 50 (1) (June 8, 2011): 1-15
** awarded 2011 Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa SJJ de Swardt Award for Best Article in Agrekon
"Staff Aging and Turnover in African Agricultural Research: Lessons from Five National Agricultural Research Institutes"
Louis Sène, Frikkie Liebenberg, Mick Mwala, Festus Murithi, Séraphine S. Kaboré and Nienke Beintema
Conference Working Paper 17, Washington, DC and Accra, Ghana: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), 2011
Also available in French: Vieillissement et Rotation des Personnels de R&D Agricole en Afrique: Enseignements Tirés de L'étude de Cinq Instituts Nationaux de Recherche Agricole
Prepared for the ASTI/IFPRI-FARA Conference, Accra, Ghana, December 5-7, 2011
Staff Aging and Turnover in African Agricultural Research: Lessons from Five National Agricultural Research Institutes
Vieillissement et Rotation des Personnels de R&D Agricole en Afrique
"Base de Dados Geográficos do "Corredor de Nacala", Moçambique"
Édson Luis Bolfe, Mateus Batistella, Carlos Cesar Ronquim, Wilson Anderson Holler, Paulo Roberto Rodrigues Martinho, Clemente José Macia and Jacinto Mafalacusser
Paper in XV Simpósio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto (SBSR), 30 de Abril a 05 de Maio de 2011, Curitiba-PR, Anais, eds. José Carlos Neves Epiphanio and Lênio Soares Galvão, (São José dos Campos, Brazil: INPE, 2011), pp. 3995-4002
Base de Dados Geográficos do "Corredor de Nacala", Moçambique
XV Simpósio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto (SBSR), 30 de Abril a 05 de Maio de 2011, Curitiba-PR, Anais
"Measuring the Effectiveness of Agricultural R&D in Sub-Saharan Africa from the Perspectives of Varietal Output and Adoption: Initial Results from the Diffusion of Improved Varieties in Africa Project"
Arega Alene, Yigezu Yigezu, Jupiter Ndjeunga, Ricardo Labarta, Robert Andrade, Aliou Diagne, Rachel Muthoni, Franklin Simtowe and Tom Walker
Conference Working Paper 7, Washington, DC and Accra, Ghana: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), 2011
Measuring the Effectiveness of Agricultural R&D in Sub-Saharan Africa from the Perspectives of Varietal Output and Adoption
"The Growing Opportunities for African Agricultural Development"
Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize, Derek Byerlee, Alex McCalla, Michael Morris and John Staatz
The Growing Opportunities for African Agricultural Development
"Staff Aging and Turnover in African Agricultural Research: A Case Study on the Agricultural Research Council and Faculties of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Sciences of the University of Pretoria"
Frikie Liebenberg
Background Paper prepared for the ASTI/IFPRI-FARA Conference, Agricultural R&D: Investing in Africa's Future, Analyzing Trends, Challenges and Opportunities, Accra, Ghana, December 5-7, 2011
Staff Aging and Turnover in African Agricultural Research
"An Overview of Productivity and Research in South African Agriculture"
FSSA Journal (2011): 13-27
"South African Agricultural R&D Investments: Sources, Structure, and Trends 1910-2007"
Frikkie Liebenberg, Philip G. Pardey and Michael Kahn
Agrekon 50 (2) (September 14, 2011): 1-26
"Structural Transformation and African Agriculture"
Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize, Alex F. McCalla and Praful Patel
Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies 2 (2) (May 2010): 113-152
"South African Agricultural Research and Development: A Century of Change"
Staff Paper P10-1 / InSTePP Paper 10-01, St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics and International Science and Technology Practice and Policy (InSTePP), January 2010
"South African Agricultural Research and Development: A Century of Change"
"Crop Diversification and Technology Adoption: The Role of Market Isolation in Ethiopia"
Alison Kay Bittinger
Master's thesis. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, April 2010
Crop Diversification and Technology Adoption
"South African Agricultural Production and Productivity Patterns"
Chapter 13 in The Shifting Patterns of Agricultural Production and Productivity Worldwide, eds. Julian M. Alston, Bruce Babcock and Philip G. Pardey, (Ames, IA: Iowa State University, Midwest Agribusiness Trade Research and Information Center (MATRIC), April 2010), pp. 383-408
The Shifting Patterns of Agricultural Production and Productivity Worldwide
"The Changing Context and Prospects for Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa"
Hans Binswanger-Mkhize and Alex F. McCalla
Chapter 70 in Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Volume 4, eds. Prabhu Pingali and Robert Evenson, (New York, NY: Elsevier, 2010): 3571-3712
Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Volume 4 (Table of Contents)
"Challenges and Opportunities for African Agriculture and Food Security: High Food Prices, Climate Change, Population Growth, and HIV and AIDS"
Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize
Paper in Proceedings of the Expert Meeting on How to Feed the World in 2050, Rome, Italy, June 24-26, 2009, (Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2009)
Challenges and Opportunities for African Agriculture and Food Security: High Food Prices, Climate Change, Population Growth...
Proceedings of the Expert Meeting on How to Feed the World in 2050
Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize and Alex F. McCalla
Working Paper from the Joint Evaluation of AfDB and IFAD Policies and Operations in Agriculture and Rural Development in Africa, Tunis, Tunisia and Rome, Italy: African Development Bank (AfDB) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 2009
The Changing Context and Prospects for Agriulcutral and Rural Development in Africa
"Accelerating Sustainable, Efficient and Equitable Land Reform: Case Study of the Qedusizi/Besters Cluster Project"
Hans P. Binswager, Roland Henderson, Zweli Mbhele and Kay Muir-Leresche
Africa Region Working Paper 109, Washington, DC: World Bank, January 2008
Accelerating Sustainable, Efficient and Equitable Land Reform: Case Study of the Qedusizi/Besters Cluster Project
Impact of Science on African Agriculture and Food Security
P. Anandajayasekeram, M. Rukuni, S. Babu, Frikkie Liebenberg and C.L. Keswani (eds.)
Wallingford, United Kingdom: CABI Press, September, 2007
Impact of Science on African Agriculture and Food Security (Table of Contents)
"South Africa: Coping with Structural Changes"
Chapter 8 in Agricultural R&D in the Developing World: Too Little, Too Late?, eds. Philip G. Pardey, Julian M. Alston and Roley R. Piggott, (Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2006), pp. 195-226
Agricultural R&D in the Developing World: Too Little, Too Late?
"Zambia: A Quiet Crisis in African Research and Development"
Howard Elliott and Paul T. Perrault
"Consensus, Confusion, and Controversy: Selected Land Reform Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Rogier van den Brink, Glen Thomas, Hans Binswanger, John Bruce and Frank Byamugisha
World Bank Working Paper 71, Washington DC: World Bank, 2006
Consensus, Confusion, and Controversy: Selected Land Reform Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa
"Returns to Investment in Less-Favored Areas in Developing Countries: A Synthesis of Evidence and Implications for Africa"
Shenggen Fan and Connie Chan-Kang
Food Policy 29 (4) (August 2004): 431-444
Frikkie Liebenberg, Nienke M. Beintema and Johann Kirsten
Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators Country Brief No. 14, Washington, DC and The Hague, The Netherlands: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR), March 2004
"A Comparison Assessment Between Supervised and Unsupervised Neural Network Image Classifiers"
Senait Dereje Senay
Thesis Report GIRS-2003-08, Wageningen, The Netherlands: Wageningen University, Center for Geo-Information, January 2003
A Comparison Assessment Between Supervised and Unsupervised Neural Network Image Classifiers
"Status of Agricultural Research and Development Policy in South Africa"
Chapter 12 in The Challenge of Change: Agriculture, Land, and the South African Economy, eds. Lieb Nieuwoudt and Jan Groenewald, (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: University of Natal Press, 2003), pp. 211-224
The Challenge of Change: Agriculture, Land, and the South African Economy (Abstract)
"Investments in African Agricultural Research"
Philip G. Pardey, Johannes Roseboom and Nienke M. Beintema
Chapter 5 in Essays on Agricultural Research Investment, ed. Johannes Roseboom, (Wageningen, Netherlands: Wageningen University, Thesis, 2002), pp.79-100
Essays on Agricultural Research Investment
"The Use of Indicators Within A Comprehensive Impact Assessment Approach in Three South African Research Programmes"
J.M.C. Esterhuizen and Frikkie Liebenberg
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 87 (2) (November 2001): 233-244
"Review of Maize Technology Development and Transfer: A GIS Application for Research Planning in Kenya"
Melinda Smale and Stan Wood
Agricultural Economics 23 (1) (June 2000): 89-91
Maize Technology Development and Transfer: A GIS Application for Research Planning in Kenya, eds Rashid Hassan, (Wallingford, United Kingdom: CAB International in Association with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), 1998)
Maize Technology Development and Transfer
"The Growth Performance of Agriculture in Subsaharan Africa"
Hans P. Binswanger and Robert E. Townsend
American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82 (5) (December 2000): 1075-1086
"The Public Agricultural Research System"
Johannes Roseboom, Philip G. Pardey, Helmke Sartorius von Bach and Johan van Zyl
Chapter 3 in South African Agriculture at the Crossroads: An Empirical Analysis of Efficiency, Technology and Productivity, eds. Colin Thirtle, Johan van Zyl and Nick Vink, (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2000) pp. 45-70
South African Agriculture at the Crossroads: An Empirical Analysis of Efficiency, Technology and Productivity (Abstract)
"Cost Aspects of African Agricultural Research"
Philip G. Pardey, Johannes Roseboom, Nienke M. Beintema and Connie Chan-Kang
EPTD Discussion Paper 42, Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Environment and Production Technology Division (EPTD), April 1999
Cost Aspects of African Agricultural Research
"Reassessing Productivity Growth in African Agriculture"
Connie Chan-Kang, Philip G. Pardey, Stanley Wood, Johannes Roseboom and Marleen Cremers
Paper presented at American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, August 8-11, 1999
Reassessing Productivity Growth in African Agriculture
"Trends in Financing African Agricultural Research"
Philip G. Pardey and Johannes Roseboom
Chapter 15 in Financing Agricultural Research: A Sourcebook, eds. Steven R. Tabor, William Janssen and Hilarion Bruneau, (The Hague, Netherlands: International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR), April 1998), pp. 307-321
Financing Agricultural Research: A Sourcebook
"The Changing Organizational Basis of African Agricultural Research"
Johannes Roseboom, Philip G. Pardey and Nienke M. Beintema
EPTD Discussion Paper no. 37, Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Environment and Production Technology Division (EPTD), November 1998
"Educating Agricultural Researchers: A Review of the Role of African Universities"
Nienke M. Beintema, Philip G. Pardey and Johannes Roseboom
EPTD Discussion Paper no. 36, Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Environment and Production Technology Division (EPTD), August 1998
"An Agricultural SAM for the Western Cape"
J.B. Eckert, G.F. Liebenberg and D.P. Troskie
Development South Africa 14 (2) (April 1997): 275-283
"Commercial Agriculture in the Western Cape: Macroeconomic Analysis with a Social Accounting Matrix"
Jerry B. Eckert, G. Frikkie Liebenberg and Dirk P. Troskie
Agrekon 36 (3) (September 1997): 302-327
Commercial Agriculture in the Western Cape: Macroeconomic Analysis with a Social Accounting Matrix


A 28-year-old Streetsboro man had injuries that were not life-threatening Wednesday after his car flipped into a retention pond in front of Roteck on Route 43 in Aurora south of Lena Drive around 11:37 p.m.
The man was southbound on Route 43 when he went off the road and into the pond, said Aurora Police Chief Brian Byard. The man was able to get out of the car on his own and flag down a passerby for help, Byard said.
Byard said alcohol or drugs are believed to be a factor, but a toxicology report has not yet come back. The man has not been charged and the police department has not named the man.
The car was pulled out Thursday morning, Byard said.


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Dr. Ben Carson Tests Positive For COVID-19, Attended White House Election Night Watch PartyDr. Ben Carson has tested positive for coronavirus, CBS News has confirmed.
Barron Trump Tests Positive For COVID-19 Earlier This Month, First Lady SaysBarron Trump tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this month, first lady Melania Trump announced in a personal essay posted on the White House website.
Local Doctors Say President Trump's COVID-19 Diagnosis Serves As Reminder For How Easily Virus SpreadsLocal doctors say President Trump's diagnosis serves as a reminder for how easily the virus spreads.
Gov. Hogan Requests Presidential Disaster Declaration Following Damages Caused by Tropical Storm IsaiasGov. Larry Hogan requested on Thursday the White House issue a Major Disaster Declaration to assist communities impacted by Tropical Storm Isaias in August.
First Lady Melania Trump Unveils White House Rose Garden Restorations Ahead Of RNCFirst lady Melania Trump on Saturday unveiled the newly renovated White House Rose Garden, an iconic space that she will use as a backdrop for her upcoming speech to the Republican National Convention.
Myron Berryman Identified As Suspect In Shooting Near White House That Interrupted President Trump's Press ConferenceThe suspect who was involved in a shooting outside the White House Monday was identified as 51-year-old Myron Berryman.
Armed Man, Secret Service Officer Taken To Hospital Following Shooting Near White HouseA man and a U.S. Secret Service officer were taken to a D.C. hospital following a shooting near the White House Monday evening, the agency said.
First Lady Melania Trump Announces Rose Garden 'Renewal' ProjectFirst Lady Melania Trump has announced plans to redo the White House Rose Garden to make it more in line with the original design implemented during the 1960s Kennedy administration.
Protesters Try To Pull Down Andrew Jackson Statue Near White House In DCProtesters tried to pull down a statue of President Andrew Jackson near the White House Monday night before being dispersed by police.
DC Paints Huge Black Lives Matter Mural Near White HouseCity workers and volunteers painted the words Black Lives Matter in enormous bright yellow letters on the street leading to the White House, a highly visible sign of the District of Columbia's embrace of a protest movement that has put it at odds with President Donald Trump.
DC Guard To Investigate Helicopter Maneuvers To Show ForceThe National Guard of the District of Columbia is investigating the use of one of its helicopters to make a "show of force" against protesters near the White House, while President Donald Trump is encouraging authorities to get tougher to quell the unrest over George Floyd's death.
George Floyd Death: Protesters Converge On White House For Second Straight DayAt Lafayette Park, across from the White House, three lines of barricades separated protesters from a line of police officers in riot gear.
Linda Tripp, Whose Tapes Were Pivotal In Bill Clinton's Impeachment Scandal, Dies At The Age Of 70Linda Tripp, who secretly recorded her conversations with Monica Lewinsky about the then-intern's relationship with President Bill Clinton in the White House, has died, according to her mother, Inge Carotenuto, and her former attorney, Joseph Murtha.
Man Arrested Outside White House Saturday After Threatening To Assassinate President TrumpHedgpeth told the officer he planned to do it with a knife, which the Secret Service officer confiscated after a pat down search, the report said.
Baltimore City FOP Attends Summit Meeting With President TrumpThe topics included violent crime, inadequate sentencing, social activist prosecutors and more.


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Q: Directory structure after converting a project to maven in eclipse I have a java project, which i converted to maven using m2e from within eclipse. Since my project was a legacy project, it was not following maven directory structure such as src/main/java and src/test/java, so after the conversion the previous directory structure didnt change.
I am wondering if there is an easy way or shortcut within m2eclipse to refactor my project to the default directory structure used by maven.
I tried adding a new source folder in my src folder and nest the folders to have src/main/java but I am getting the below error.
Please see the snapshot as i dont have enough reputation to post it.
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A: The error message is pointing out the problem - you can't nest source folders, as the package names would make no sense. It is easily fixed:

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*Right click the project and select Properties

*Select Java Build Path/Source

*Delete all entries

*Add the standard Maven paths (src/main/java, src/main/resources, /src/test/java and src/test/resources)

Exit the Properties dialog and a Project/clean should compile everything correctly.

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Engel reports a rise in turnover, rolls out e-mac all-electric press
Bill Bregar
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany—Turnover at Austria-based machinery maker Engel Holding GmbH should reach at least $1.18 billion this fiscal year, about 8 percent higher than 834 million in fiscal 2011-2012.
Engel President and CEO Peter Neumann gave his forecast and outlined Engel's global strategy at a press conference Oct. 17 at the Fakuma trade show. Engel's fiscal year ends in March, so the first half ended Sept. 30, right before Fakuma.
At the show, Engel rolled out its new all-electric press, the e-mac, a compact machine with a fast injection speed for thin-wall molding. Engel's show machine, equipped with a Viper 6 robot, molds wine bottle stoppers from polypropylene and liquid silicone rubber, in a multicomponent application.
Engel is closing in the 1 billion-euro turnover level. Neumann said company employees are proud of that landmark, which reflects that the maker of injection presses and robots is picking up market share and continuing to innovate.
Engel is investing 62 million euros in 2011 through 2013, including expansions at its headquarters plant in Schwertberg, Austria, its large-machine factory in Saint Valentin, Austria, and its plants in Shanghai, China, and Pyungtaek, South Korea, and its robot and automation factory in Hagen, Germany. Engel also improved production flow at its robot factory in Dietach, Austria, with a synchronized assembly line.
Stefan Engleder, head of technology and production, said all work steps happen in sync with the assembly line. The new "flow" production will reduce deliver times, and allow Dietach workers to respond quickly to order changes and special customer requests, he said.
Engel also is opening a technology in Stuttgart, Germany, for its fourth center in that key European country. The Stuttgart facility will be big enough to accommodate six or seven automated manufacturing cells, said Claus Wilde, head of the new subsidiary.
Neumann said German molders continue to buy complete production cells, more so than individual injection presses. He said the machinery business has improved in Europe, but the sector is still below the pre-recession level.
Neumann thinks that companywide, Engel can generate 8 percent annual growth rate over the long term. But he said he is cautious about making predictions, since in 2009, Engel had enjoyed a record first half before the Great Recession hammered down sales.
As to the next fiscal year, Engel officials said their crystal balls were cloudy. "We'll be quite happy in the next fiscal year to be stable or even have a small decrease," Neumann said. Engel is poised to grow faster than the competition because of its long-term focus on technology, he said.
After the press conference, head of sales Christian Pum clarified that forecast, noting it's difficult to predict general economic conditions. Like other European machinery executives, Pum thinks sales will be flat to North America and western Europe, while stronger in developing countries of Asia.
"In Asia, there will be growth. So if we can compensate what we lose on volume in Europe and North America by our growth in Asia — because this year we're doubling the capacity in China — this means at the end we should have double turnover in China. And Korea the same. And this would mean around 50 to 60 million euros," Pum said. "And if this is enough, if the slowdown in the other markets will be lower than that, then we will have further growth."
Neumann said the growth rate of China is slowing, and overall injection press sales are down. But high-tech machines are in demand. "Our relevant market is growing," he said. "This decrease is purely focused on low-tech machines." Engel is boosting production and improving customer service there.
"The quality and technology level in China is the same as in Europe," Neumann said.
Neumann foresees a relatively flat market in North America, Europe, and Asian nations outside of China.
Engel leaders report that medical and packaging have generated press sales in the United States and Canada. But the explosive level of machinery sales to the important automotive market should cool off, they said.
Pum said Engel had record business in North America. "But nobody thinks this will continue. In automotive, there was really a backlog of no investments for a long time. And we fortunately got a lot of those projects. But this year we think there will be slowdown," he said.
Engel employs 4,100 people and continues to hire, especially production and service positions in Asia, Neumann said.


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The existing Glade ferry can carry eight vehicles. Its replacement will be able to carry nine.
RDCK directors welcome Glade, Harrop ferries
New ferries will address capacity concerns, will include enhancements.
Two Kootenay regional directors are thrilled with the announcement that new ferries will be constructed for Glade and Harrop, but some residents in their communities continue to pine for the installation of a fixed link.
"We're pretty happy we're getting a new ferry because we just had our capacity cut by a Transport Canada ruling down to 50," said Area E director Ramona Faust.
That will create problems come September, because there are at least 38 elementary school students who take the bus each morning.
Starting on September 6, that may cause back-ups.
"The fact we'll have a new ferry in three years means the pain won't go on forever."
But some haven't given up on the idea of a bridge.
"There is a group of concerned citizens who have met about the ferry since the capacity was cut and I think you'll find there's a difference of opinion even among them. I think anything at this point that will see us into the next 20 years will be welcomed."
Andy Davidoff of Area I said some residents are hostile to the idea of a bridge.
"If you go across the river, the people there have a quality of life similar to the Gulf Islands, where you have a degree of isolation and privacy, whereas some other people want the convenience of having a bridge."
But either way, his constituents would like to see the cost comparison between the two projects to confirm that replacing the ferry is the most "efficacious" route to go.
"If the ministry has determined this is the cheaper, most efficient way to go then we welcome all the enhancements. For some of my constituents replacing the ferry is not the first choice but at the end of the day we all deserve to see the cost-benefit analysis."
He hopes the higher capacity of the new ferry will allow more commercial vehicles to make the trip, and expressed hope that the river ramps will be upgraded.
"There are really rapid fluctuations of the river at Glade because of BC Hydro. They control the water going through each dam in the Kootenays as part of the canal agreement."
Faust said conversations with the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) have been collaborative and respectful.
"We have lots of good relationships and partnerships with MOTI, and this is the back and forth of being a community."
That being said, she thinks there could be more consideration for the specifics demands of their community. The news of reduced capacity came shortly before the busy wedding season, and she's concerned it may affect their hosing of the upcoming MS Bike Tour.
"I know everyone does the best they can, and we're thankful for that, but perhaps we need a little more consideration for the lives we lead."
Ministry: ferries trump bridge for affordability
Though some residents of Harrop and Glade remain ambivalent about the upcoming replacement of the ferries in their community, according to the Ministry of Transportation it's the cheaper of the two options.
"For both the Harrop and Glade ferries a cost analysis was completed and it was determined that ferries continue to offer the most affordable solution, now and for the forseeable future," wrote public affairs officer Sonia Lowe.
However, the ministry won't be able to share their findings with the public until the tender process closes in February 2016. Renewing these two ferries falls under the province's B.C. on the Move transportation plan.
Lowe said the new ferries will "be able to take more vehicles than existing ferries, with capacity increased to handle commercial vehicles at full highway loads."
The bidding process will be open for approximately five weeks, and up to three respondents will be shortlisted for the second stage: request for proposals. If all goes according to plan the first vessel will begin construction in 2016, with all vessels expected to be in service by the end of 2018.
The new Glade ferry will be able to hold 9 vehicles, while the new Harrop one will be able to hold 24.
"The existing cable ferries serving those communities have now reached the end of their working life," she said, noting that last year B.C.'s inland ferries carried approximately 1.5 million vehicles and 2.2 million passengers.
Taghum boat launch feasibility study approved
Green candidate honoured for fisheries work


What difference can a team make in real estate? Well, it really depends on the team just like it really depends on the individual REALTOR®. This blog really looks at the power of a team whether real estate, football or parcheesi.
They won every game they played that year. Many, many, many teams have come within a hair of matching that same feat, but they didn't, and the funny thing is that although those other teams had amazing seasons, very few people can name them. Perfect teams are a real rarity, like the four-leaf clover or the Sasquatch, but when they reveal themselves, the world stands still to appreciate them.
To achieve this level of "team" each member must buy in to what's being sold, that is, to completely and unthinkingly follow the concepts and goals that have been assigned to them. A team member has to have unblinking reaction to the job that is required of them on a day to day, hour by hour, play by play basis.
You have to have faith. You need to know that what you are doing is the right thing to do and has to be done, no matter what. A team member knows that the person to the left or right is going to get the job done just like he or she is. Trust is omnipresent. It never EVER goes away or wavers. A team member's biggest fear is not failure, it's letting down his or her teammates, the fear of being the weak link.
When watching their favourite sports team on TV, most folks don't see the high level of 'friendly' competition that exists between teammates. These are friends, not foes, competing for playing time or for a given position or for their professional sporting existence.
Often players will push each other far beyond what they would have ever achieved on their own, and even the teammate who loses out on the starting job ends up performing at a level they never thought possible.
This is the main function of any team: To RAISE the bar and up the daily level of achievement through the co-ordinated effort of individuals.
You can slap together a number of individual superstars onto one team (see the New York Yankees 2001-2013) and hope that their singular skills can combine to be an unstoppable force, but history shows that this rarely happens. It is often the case that a group of individuals, superstars or no, looking out for singular glory, fail, miserably.
The failure comes during conception, from the superstars "need" to succeed over competitors and teammates alike. They are unable to recognize friend vs foe, or in our case, competitor vs teammate.
This is where teams need to tread a fine line. What a manager must find is a harmonious group of people who can co-exist and function as a unit but they MUST be able to push one another to higher levels of achievement. Not through envy or jealousy but rather by the intrinsic need to support and succeed. Either way works. A team member isn't mad at his or her co-worker when they achieve something that they were both after. Quite the opposite, they are actually happy for them, however the member who came out on the short end is motivated to do better and to be better. It's healthy competition, where trust, respect and the honest to God desire to see a team become stronger, exist.
Add real estate into the equation and the waters get a bit more complicated. A team needs to see a goal that they are going to work to achieve together. Shared victories, shared defeats. The most successful brokerage will balance the need of the individual REALTORs desire to succeed with the growth and progress of the brokerage. The individuals in the team and the team supporting the individuals.
When you are looking to sell you're home, consider this concept. What team are you signing on to work with? What is the culture and atmosphere? How much 'buy in' is there? Sure, maybe they're not the 1972 Miami Dolphins but make sure their ultimate and singular purpose (aka Real Estate Super Bowl) is always one thing: your best interests.
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