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India’s national maternity benefit cash transfer program and child anthropometry

Scientific Reports
This study evaluates the impact of India’s Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY), the world’s largest rights-based conditional cash transfer (CCT) program targeting women during their first pregnancy.
Soumyajit Ray, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Sumantra Pal, Samuel Scott, Purnima Menon, Suman Chakrabarti   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The multiple roles of crop structural change in productivity, nutrition and environment in China: A decomposition analysis

Journal of Integrative Agriculture
China’s crop structure has undergone significant changes in the last two decades since 2000, with an increase in the share of cereals, vegetables, and fruit, squeezing out other crops. As a result, land productivity, nutrient supply, and carbon emissions
Xiangyang Zhang, Yumei Zhang, Shenggen Fan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

IMPACT Projections of Food Production, Consumption, and Hunger to 2050, With and Without Climate Change: Extended Country-level Results for 2019 GFPR Annex Table 5

, 2018
Policy makers, analysts, and civil society face increasing challenges to reducing hunger and improving food security in a sustainable way. Modeling alternative future scenarios and assessing their outcomes can help inform policy choices.
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
core   +1 more source

Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone, Craig W. Carpenter, Courtney Bir, Andrew J. Van Leuven, Rebecca Wasserman‐Olin, Wendong Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Where is the Italian agriculture heading?

Bio-based and Applied Economics
In early 2025, the European Union launched a new phase of dialogue on the future of agricultural and food policies, aiming to move beyond the sustainability-centred narratives of the Green Deal and Farm to Fork strategy. The initiative, grounded in the “
Filippo Arfini, Fabio Bartolini, Anna Carbone, Tatiana Castellotti, Silvia Coderoni, Raffaele Cortignani, Raffaele D'Annolfo, Giovanni Dara Guccione, Michele Donati, Francesca Galli, Roberto Henke, Giampiero Mazzocchi, Alessandro Monteleone, Alessandra Pesce, Maria Rosaria Pupo D'Andrea, Benedetto Rocchi, Donato Romano, Roberta Sardone, Franco Sotte, Stefano Targetti, Catia Zumpano, Meri Raggi   +21 more
doaj   +1 more source

IMPACT Projections of Demand for Agricultural Products: Extended Country-level Results for 2017 GFPR Annex IMPACT Trend 1

, 2016
Policy makers, analysts, and civil society face increasing challenges to reducing hunger and improving food security in a sustainable way. Modeling alternative future scenarios and assessing their outcomes can help inform their choices. The International
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
core   +1 more source

Constructing and Validating New County‐Level Cultural Capital Indices for Applied Policy Analysis: Evidence From SNAP Take‐Up

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cultural capital influences a wide range of social and economic outcomes, yet quantitative measures suitable for policy analysis remain limited. We develop county‐level cultural capital indices for the US based on Bourdieu's framework of objectified, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital.
Pratyoosh Kashyap, Becca B. R. Jablonski, John Bovay   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

The futures for regenerative agriculture: insights from the organic movement and the tussle with industrial agriculture

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Concern has been raised about the potential greenwashing/co-optation of regenerative agriculture (RA) due to a lack of consensus on its definition. While the academic literature has cataloged various approaches to defining RA, each definitional approach ...
Tatenda Mambo, Guillaume Lhermie, Guillaume Lhermie   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Impacts of Health and Environmental Information Nudges on Meat Choices: Where Does Goat Meat Fit?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amidst a recent surge in US goat meat imports to meet growing demand, this study contributes to the meat demand literature by examining consumer preferences for goat meat, a relatively healthy and environmentally friendly alternative to other popular meats.
Binod Khanal, Sunil P. Dhoubhadel, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source