Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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The role of institutional quality, energy consumption, and trade openness in food production in major 19 agricultural economies. [PDF]
Çelik H, Aytekin İ, Kızılkaya S.
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ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor +3 more
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Adult Nutrition Stress Modulates the Energy Allocation Between Migration and Reproduction in <i>Cnaphalocrocis medinalis</i>. [PDF]
Xu CM +5 more
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ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe +2 more
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Comprehensive Resilience Assessment of Global Staple Food Trade Networks Based on Structural Evolution and Cascading Failures. [PDF]
Zhou S, He L.
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Correction: Date palm by-products, fish waste, and <i>Moringa oleifera</i> as a cost-effective total mixed ration for fattening lambs: trade-offs between economic benefits and growth performance. [PDF]
Al-Khalasi S +6 more
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis
ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török +6 more
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Inter-provincial water-energy-carbon transfer and its efficiency in China: the perspective of land use. [PDF]
Cai C +7 more
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