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Farmers' Participation in Messenger‐Based Social Groups And Its Effects on Performance in Irrigated Areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in farming communities is increasing the use of smartphone‐based instant messaging apps. Despite this, the reasons behind participation and the impact on farm productivity in developing countries remain unexplored.
Zafar Kurbanov, Abdusame Tadjiev, Nodir Djanibekov, Ajit Govind, Akmal Akramkhanov   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

LAND REFORM AND DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL LAND MARKETS IN RUSSIA [PDF]

Russia has experienced dramatic changes in land ownership and land tenure since the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991: agricultural land has been largely privatized, individual landowners now have legal rights to most agricultural land ...
Lerman, Zvi, Shagaida, Natalya
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The Role of Coordination Mechanisms and Transaction Costs Promoting Sustainability Performance in Agri‐Food Supply Chains: Evidence From Ecuador

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
wiley   +1 more source

Renewable Energy Development and Implications to Agricultural Viability [PDF]

Food and energy security have increasingly acquired key natural resource policy focus. As alternative energy solutions become more land intensive, the potential implication to the agricultural sector becomes of policy interest.
Adelaja, Adesoji O., Hailu, Yohannes G.
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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

Interpretable LAI Fine Inversion of Maize by Fusing Satellite, UAV Multispectral, and Thermal Infrared Images

Agriculture
Leaf area index (LAI) serves as a crucial indicator for characterizing the growth and development process of maize. However, the LAI inversion of maize based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is highly susceptible to various factors such as weather ...
Yu Yao, Hengbin Wang, Xiao Yang, Xiang Gao, Shuai Yang, Yuanyuan Zhao, Shaoming Li, Xiaodong Zhang, Zhe Liu   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Influence of Asset and Access Poverty on Crop Production and Land Degradation in Uganda [PDF]

This study investigated the linkages between poverty, agricultural productivity and land degradation in Uganda. Results show that farmers in the study region of Uganda deplete about 1.2% of the nutrient stock stored in the topsoil per year, leading to a ...
Kaizzi, Crammer, Nkonya, Ephraim M., Pender, John L.   +2 more
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Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li, Vanessa Ormeño‐Candelario, Xueli Chen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fundamental Experiments on Moving Characteristics of Scattered Agricultural Chemicals on the Grass Land

, 1991
Masaru Ojima, Fumito MATSUURA, Shingo Tamura, Kyu‐Tae Lee   +3 more
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LINKING LAND QUALITY, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY, AND FOOD SECURITY [PDF]

Land quality and land degradation affect agricultural productivity, but quantifying these relationships has been difficult. Data are limited, and impacts are sensitive to the choices that farmers make.
Wiebe, Keith D.
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