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Effects of Outsourced Agricultural Extension Services on the Technical Efficiency and Financial Returns of Soybean Farms in Northern Cameroon

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda, Doria A. Medondjeu, Dorothy E. Fon, Stefan Sieber   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating Effectiveness of Sustainable Livelihood Development in Rural Communities along Mara River Basin, Tanzania: What Works, What Doesn't Work, and Why? [PDF]

PLoS One
Ngowi EE, Jesse AM.
europepmc   +1 more source

VALIANT: A Vision‐Authenticity Language Framework Through Integrated Experts and Aligned Numerical‐Textual Descriptors for Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Visual features, numerical descriptors, and controlled textual attributes extracted from smartphone images of Chenpi are integrated by VALIANT, a tailored multimodal framework for simultaneous storage‐age classification and authenticity verification. The workflow distinguishes genuine products from suspicious standard operating procedure mimics while ...
Simon C. K. Chan, Bingxin Huang, Hannah H. Kim, Wentao Yu, Yinqian Luo, Terence T. W. Wong   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relational, cognitive, and structural social capital in shaping livelihood resilience in informal agri-food systems. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Salman D, Lairing N, Js N, Arsal A, Amrawaty AA, Witteveen L.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

CONTRIBUTION OF THE ROMANIAN AGRICULTURE TO THE ECONOMIC RESILIENCE – EVIDENCE DURING THE RECENT CRISIS

Scientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2016
In a country in which about one third of employed population working in agriculture, this paper aim was to evaluate the place and role of the primary sector in Romania’s economy resistance in the face of major economic crisis. The economic resilience was investigated in territorial perspective, at NUTS 3 level – the 42 counties of Romania.
openaire   +1 more source

The Role of Digital Finance in Shaping Agricultural Economic Resilience: Evidence from Machine Learning

This study offers detailed recommendations on strengthening government support without harming digital finance benefits, especially in negatively affected areas, which is critical for enhancing the inclusiveness of the digital financial landscape and ...
Jiahao Zhou, Chun Yang, Wangping Liu
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Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt, Stefan Seifert, Saskia Wolff, Tobia Lakes, Marten Graubner, Axel Werwatz, Silke Hüttel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable and Resilient Economic Development: Frameworks, Business Adaptation and the Role of Agriculture

This study examines the interdependence between economic resilience and sustainable economic development in the context of contemporary global transformations. The research highlights that modern economies are increasingly shaped by complex challenges such as climate change, globalization, technological advancement, and recurrent economic crises, which
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Resilience Challenges in Bioeconomy Policies: A Global Comparative Analysis. [PDF]

Environ Manage
Goritz N, Proestou M, Feindt PH.
europepmc   +1 more source

Assessing resilience in Collie: a case study in Western Australia

, 2010
Resilience is a system’s ability to absorb or adapt to change without losing essential structures and functions. In a changing world, resilience assessment is a means of assessing the condition of complex ecological and social systems in the face of ...
Dortch, Eloise
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