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Circularity, Sustainability, and the Quality of Coffee Sold via Vending Machines: What Do Italian Consumers Prefer?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vending is an important sector in the daily lives of many people, and coffee is the most frequently consumed product in the European market. Like many other sectors, vending is responding to the challenge of sustainable development by taking various actions, such as offering increasingly ecologically sound coffee while maintaining/improving ...
Alberto Bertossi, Stefania Troiano, Francesco Marangon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perception and Adoption of Good Agricultural Practices Among Family Farmers Supplying Fruits and Vegetables to Brazil's School Feeding Program-A Mix-Method Study in the Federal District. [PDF]

Foods
Alves ICC, Silvestre HS, Costa AB, Driessen MR, Mathias NKF, Souza LP, Batista SA, Machado ER, Zandonadi RP, Ginani VC.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Hedging in Presence of Market Access Risk [PDF]

Existing literature predominantly assumes perfect knowledge of production methods when deriving optimal futures position hedging rules. This paper relaxes this assumption and recognizes situations where producers interested in hedging may not know the ...
Tonsor, Glynn T.
core   +1 more source

Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
wiley   +1 more source

Soil Management for Sustainable Agriculture 2013

Applied and Environmental Soil Science, 2014
Philip J. White, John W. Crawford, María Cruz Díaz Álvarez, Rosario García Moreno   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Financing strategies for contract agricultural supply chain considering government subsidized interest. [PDF]

PLoS One
Wang J, Li C, Shi Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Cooperative Risk Management: Rationale and Effectiveness [PDF]

Agricultural cooperatives tend to be riskier than investor-oriented firms, both in a business and financial sense. However, cooperative managers are often reluctant to actively manage risk.
Manfredo, Mark R., Richards, Timothy J.
core   +1 more source

The Bitter Taste of Brazil's Temporary Import Ban on Robusta Coffee

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Brazil, a leading Robusta coffee producer and exporter, faced a significant drought in 2016–2017, which drastically reduced production and depleted stocks. Consequently, Brazil temporarily permitted the import of one million 60‐kg bags of Robusta coffee in the spring 2017. An import ban was imposed shortly afterward due to lobbying by domestic
Hanifi Otgun, John Beghin, Fernando Maximiliano   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

RISK MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE AGRICULTURAL VALUE CHAIN IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA.

Malete Journal of Accounting and Finance
The role of risk management practices in agricultural value chains has generated increasing attention, especially in developing economies like Nigeria.
Ganiyu Deji ABDULRAHEEM, Ahmed Oluwatobi ADEKUNLE   +1 more
doaj  

Natural Compounds for Controlling Plant Pathogens. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Dambolena JS, Usseglio VL.
europepmc   +1 more source