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Strategic Thinking and Entrepreneurial Orientation as Drivers of Adaptive Resilience in Global Manufacturing SMEs: A Narrative Review of Dynamic Capabilities and Cross-Context Variations. [PDF]

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Ongesa Nyamboga T.
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková, Michiel van Dijk, Robert M'Barek, Hans van Meijl, Tomas Ratinger   +4 more
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Strategic Decisions and the Entrepreneurial Mindset in Sustaining Agribusiness SMEs in Emerging Economies: Unlocking Pathways to Resilience - A Narrative Review. [PDF]

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Nyamboga TO.
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Ban Glyphosate—Does It Affect the Swedish Farmers' Willingness to Grow Cover Crops?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cultivation of cover crops is one of the new Eco‐scheme practices introduced in Sweden. This study examines how the design of policy attributes of these schemes influences farmers' willingness to grow cover crops on arable land, with particular focus on the potential impact of a glyphosate ban.
Vivian Wei Huang, Anna Kristina Edenbrandt, Elin Röös   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava, Jung Sun Lee, Travis A. Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Graph attention-based heterogeneous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for adaptive portfolio optimization. [PDF]

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Zhang B.
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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley, Sean Posey, Kathy Baylis, Daniel Osgood, Stuart Sweeney   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design and methodology of a cluster-randomised controlled trial on cash plus interventions for preventing child wasting in Somalia. [PDF]

J Glob Health
Walton S, Alier KK, Garretson S, Grounds S, Khattak Q, Tripaldi M, Loddo F, Mohamoud SA, Nur MA, Abdiqadir SM, Mitchell E, Mahat MB, Gure M, Jibril DI, Gedi D, Ocircan M, Ismail MO, Farah AA, Mohamed AA, Mohamed AA, Akseer N.   +20 more
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Coping With Production Risk: Effects of Sown Plant Diversity on the Attractiveness of Crop Insurance in Grasslands

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou, Sergei Schaub, Martin Quaas, Robert Finger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

FusionLSTM-CNF: a confidence-calibrated multi-modal late fusion framework for robust stock movement prediction under uncertainty. [PDF]

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Wang TW, Shaikh ZA, Yong SL, Elmannai H, Por LY.   +4 more
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