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A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach, Brian C. Briggeman, Jason S. Bergtold, Aleksan Shanoyan, Sarah A. Low, Brandi Miller   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

An interdisciplinary approach to the Loss and Damage fund: exploring potential applications and guiding principles. [PDF]

UCL Open Environ
Yaguma P, Chin-Yee S, Parikh P, Vanhala L, Maslin M, Taylor RG, Zaqout M, Roberts C, McGlade J.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah, Habtamu Alem, Abdulai Adams, Tomáš Ratinger, Miroslava Bavorová   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital literacy: The catalyst for credit access and income growth in rural households. [PDF]

PLoS One
Zhang Y, Zhen H, Wang Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

FINANCING OF GROWTH IN AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES

Sources and uses of funds in agricultural cooperatives are examined and compared to the aggregate of nonfinancial corporations for the period 1973-1987. Cooperatives are observed to finance nearly half their growth with equity.
Parliament, Claudia, Lerman, Zvi
core  

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

Investment modeling for scalable agricultural learning. [PDF]

PLoS One
Reeves NP, Pietrelli R, Brooks I, Rosas Celi VGSY, Narendra K, Ngabitsinze JC, Torero Cullen M, Lutomia AN, Medendorp JW, Bello-Bravo JM, Pittendrigh BR.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Do Cooperative Banks Really Serve Agricultural Sector in Poland?

The aim of the paper is to assess the potential of cooperative banks for serving agricultural sector in Poland and to identify the areas with the most development potential.
Siudek, Tomasz, Zawojska, Aldona
core  

How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring barriers to adoption of climate-smart agriculture among smallholder farmers in Odisha, India. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Mishra T, Gaurav S, Bose D, Kumar A, Singh M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source