This paper explores the origins of observed differences in cooperativeness across societies and cultures. In particular, we provide evidence that rice cultivation gives rise to a more cooperative social norm. The rationale behind the hypothesis is that unlike cultivating other crops, such as wheat or corn, farming rice historically required extensive cooperation among farmers. We travelled to f...

This paper innovates as it tests two different hypotheses regarding climate impacts on agricultural markets in Brazil: farmers only observe the average climate conditions of their region when deciding the type and amount of crop/animal to grow/raise; and weather diversions from normal climate conditions deviate farmers from their optimal profits. Both hypotheses are not rejected by the data. Th...

Successes • Many people showed up at the public meeting. • The citizen group wants to continue beyond the MERIT project. • Increased level of knowledge on both sides of the table. • A deeper understanding of pesticide sources and precautionary actions. • Implementation of cooperative farming contracts is not only a question of money. • There are new opportunities to establish waterworks coopera...

Recent distributed computing frameworks—such as MapReduce, Hadoop and Dryad—have made it simple to exploit multiple machines in a compute cloud. However, these frameworks use coordination languages that are insufficiently expressive for many classes of computation, including iterative and recursive algorithms. To address this problem, and generalise previous approaches, we introduce Skywriting:...

Sleman Regency is a productive area, its agriculture known to support food security. This proven by the various awards given Minister of Agriculture, one which member Sido Makmur sugar cane farmer cooperative, located in Kalasan District, Regency. The award that can be obtained is, course, due development sugarcane farming. So, purpose this research examine farming and impact on socio-economic ...

Problems faced by Farmers in Colomadu District is about the lack of price guarantees and market guarantees. These problems can be overcome doing partnerships, with agriculture cooperative, for instance. Partnership a form cooperation between farmers cooperative principle mutual benefit. The aims this study were (1) to describe partnership organic rice Pertiwi Hijau Multipurpose Cooperative, (2)...