Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsUsing a panel dataset of 24,527 farming households from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) for the years 2014–2020, this study employed the fixed-effects, mediation-effect, and two-stage least squares (2SLS) models to explore why in the context of non-
Guanqing Xu +4 more
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A Cinderella Story: The Early Evolution of the American Tractor Industry [PDF]
The arrival of motorization, from before the beginning of the twentieth century, has changed agricultural production and the whole economy by dramatically reducing work force and improving productivity.
Soumodip Sarkar, Vanessa Duarte
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The role of agricultural mechanization services in reducing pesticide input: promoting sustainable agriculture and public health. [PDF]
Front Public Health, 2023 Li X, Zhu M, Zhu M.
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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Agricultural mechanization perspective in Pakistan: present challenges and digital future
Journal of Agricultural EngineeringAgriculture constitutes a critical sector within the economic landscape of Pakistan, engaging 37.4% of the labour force and contributing 22.9% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), thus functioning as an essential element of the country's economic ...
Gohar Gulshan Mahmood +2 more
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A review of empirical evidence on gender differences in nonland agricultural inputs, technology, and services in developing countries [PDF]
This paper reviews existing microeconomic empirical literature on gender differences in use, access, and adoption of nonland agricultural inputs in developing countries.
Behrman, Julia +2 more
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Bovine and human becomings in histories of dairy technologies: robotic milking systems and remaking animal and human subjectivity [PDF]
, 2017 This paper positions the recent emergence of robotic or automatic milking systems (AMS) in relation to discourses surrounding the longer history of milking technologies in the UK and elsewhere.
BEAR, CHRISTOPHER, HOLLOWAY, LEWIS
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How Does Agricultural Mechanization Service Affect Agricultural Green Transformation in China? [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2023 Li X, Guan R.
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia +4 more
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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 +2 more
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