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Too Complex to Choose? The Role of Heuristics in Shaping Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Income Stabilization Tool in Italy

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European agriculture is increasingly exposed to economic instability driven by extreme weather events, market volatility, and geopolitical tensions. To manage these growing risks, farmers are encouraged to adopt innovative risk management strategies such as the Income Stabilization Tool (IST), which offers protection against severe income ...
Alice Stiletto, Ruggiero Rippo, Samuele Trestini, Elisa Giampietri, Roberta Raffaelli, Simone Cerroni   +5 more
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Protection Motivation Theory and Farmers' Participation in Futures Markets: Evidence From Germany

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines why German farmers show limited adoption of commodity futures contracts despite substantial price volatility, applying Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) to understand the cognitive processes driving participation decisions in futures markets. Survey data from 303 German farmers collected in 2024 were analyzed using Partial
Hendrik Wever, Marius Michels, Oliver Musshoff   +2 more
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Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales, Alba J. Collart, Matthew G. Interis, Esther Mmenaa Agyemang‐Duah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer Demand and Market Response to Added Sugar Labeling: Evidence From the Updated Nutrition Facts Panel

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how mandatory disclosure of added sugar content on the updated U.S. Nutrition Facts Panel (NFP) affects consumer demand and market outcomes. Using NielsenIQ Retail Scanner Data (2015–2020) and a random coefficient discrete choice model, we estimate how added sugar labeling influences purchasing behavior in yogurt and cookie
Yuxiang Zhang, Yizao Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring attitudes toward self-harm among mental health care staff:psychometric evaluation of the Self-Harm Antipathy Scale (SHAS) in Denmark

BackgroundNegative attitudes among mental health professionals toward individuals who self-harm can impact the quality of care and contribute to antipathy and stigma.
Bach, Bo, Austin, Stephen Fitzgerald, Simonsen, Erik, Kongerslev, Mickey T., Høst Poulsen, Kristine, Hjorthøj, Carsten, Kongerslev, Mickey T.; id_orcid, Høst Poulsen, Kristine; id_orcid   +7 more
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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
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Churned on the Farm, Valued by Customers: Southeast U.S. Consumers' Willingness‐to‐Pay for Farmstead Ice Cream

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Consumer demand for value‐added dairy products has grown substantially, yet consumer preferences for origin information (including farmstead) on ice cream remain underexplored. We used a stated preferences choice experiment to elicit consumers' willingness‐to‐pay (WTP) for ice cream across nine states in the Southeastern U.S.
Nama Raj Bhusal, Alicia Rihn, Liz Eckelkamp, Caitlin Zaring, Charley Martinez, Chris Boyer   +5 more
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The limits to psychoanalysis: a response to Hannah, Philo, Secor, and Swyngedouw

Fennia: International Journal of Geography
Engaging four reviewers of The Begging Question, this article reflects on what psychoanalysis can and cannot do for social-geographical inquiry. The author concedes that Lacanian theory, while illuminating the unconscious structures of antipathy toward ...
Erik Hansson
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Beyond prejudice as simple antipathy

, 2000
The authors argue that complementary hostile and benevolent components of sexism exist across cultures. Male dominance creates hostile sexism IHS), but men's dependence on women fosters benevolent sexism (BS)-subjectively positive attitudes that put ...
Wigboldus, D, Ferreira, MC, Akande, A, López, WL, Willemsen, TM, Mladinic, A, Kim, HJ, Sotelo, MJ, Glick, P, Osagie, JE, Udegbe, B, Saiz, JL, Brunner, A, Lameiras, M, Six-Materna, I, Expósito, F, Fiske, ST, Foddy, M, Abrams, D, Adetoun, B, Moya, M, Mucchi-Faina, A, Sakall, N, Eckes, T, Chipeta, K, Yamamoto, M, Romani, M, Dardenne, B, Dijksterhuis, A, Masser, B, Ui, M, Alao, A   +31 more
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A Scalable and Resource‐Efficient Pipelined p‐Computer for Probabilistic Ising Machines

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
(a) Block diagram of the portfolio optimization problem: given M assets, the goal is to determine the optimal weights w that maximize the expected return (based on the mean historical assets return u), while minimizing the risk, quantified by the assets covariance matrix S.
Deborah Volpe, Eleonora Raimondo, Andrea Grimaldi, Pedram Khalili Amiri, Stefano Chiappini, Anna Giordano, Mario Carpentieri, Hyunsoo Yang, Massimo Chiappini, Giovanni Finocchio   +9 more
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