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Alternative Policy Designs to Help Farmers Select Profitable Conservation Practices

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Voluntary private carbon initiatives (VPCIs) promote the implementation of agricultural conservation practices that mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) via financial incentives to participating farmers. Simultaneously, an array of public policies supports the adoption of conservation practices through technical and financial ...
Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn, Alejandro Plastina   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food Prices and Inflation Expectations in New Zealand

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Food prices are conspicuous, and spending on food constitutes a considerable share of household expenditure. In this study, we use partially identified Bayesian structural vector autoregression models to analyze the effects of food price shocks on core inflation and 1‐ and 5‐year inflation expectations in New Zealand.
Puneet Vatsa, Gabriel Pino, Alex Acheampong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Population Genetic Characteristics of the Cultivated Coffea arabica with Whole-Genome Resequencing

Horticulturae
Coffea arabica L. (C. arabica) is an economically important agricultural crop and the most popular beverage worldwide. To analyze genetic diversity and provide genetic resources for the selection and breeding of superior varieties of C.
Qin Zhang, Dongxiao Ma, Yang Yang, Faguang Hu, Xingfei Fu, Guiping Li, Xiaofang Zhang, Na Wang, Dexin Liu, Ruirui Wu, Xiaofei Bi, Yuqiang Lou, Yaqi Li, Haohao Yu, Wei Yan, Yanan Li   +15 more
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When the River Runs Low: Heterogeneous Impacts of Transportation Disruptions on Local Grain Basis

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A substantial share of U.S. soybean and corn exports from the Midwest moves by barge along the Mississippi River system to export terminals in the Louisiana Gulf. Transportation costs between Midwestern grain elevators and export terminals create a wedge between prices at these locations, and shocks to these costs are partially passed on to ...
Yuan Zhang, Andrew E. Anderson, Nicholas J. Pates, Eunchun Park   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Phylogenetic relationships and divergent evolution in Pueraria sensu stricto (Fabaceae) based on plastid genomes and nrITS sequences

BMC Plant Biology
Background Despite progress in resolving the polyphyly of Pueraria (Fabaceae) based on multilocus phylogenetic studies, uncertainty remains especially for deep, or backbone relationships among closely related taxa or clades within Pueraria sensu stricto,
Yun Zhou, Xiao-Hong Shang, Dong Cheng, Liang Xiao, Sheng Cao, Hua-Bing Yan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

Livelihood Diversification as an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change and Household Food Security of Livestock Holders in Pakistan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rural farm households continue to face significant risks from climate change, resulting in many of them diversifying their livelihood sources into other income‐generating activities to increase their incomes and improve food and nutrition security. In this study, we examine the drivers and impact of farm households' participation in livelihood
Mahwish Arshad, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

On the negative relation between investment-cash flow sensitivities and cash-cash flow. [PDF]

We predict and find empirical support for a negative relation between the firm’s investment-cash flow sensitivity and cash-cash flow sensitivity, two measures suggested to capture the concept of financing constraints.
D'Espallier, Bert, López-Iturriaga, Félix   +1 more
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Applied DDMI: A White Paper on how Design-Driven Material Innovation Methodology was applied in the Trash-2-Cash Project [PDF]

, 2019
This report summarises the work of a consortium of 18 partners; designers, design researchers and facilitators, manufacturers, material researchers and technical experts, during the EU Funded Trash-2-Cash project.
Tubito, Christian, Earley, Rebecca, Sarbach, Veronica, Ellams, Dawn, Östmark, Emma, Niinimäki, Kirsi, Tanttu, Marjaana, Hornbuckle, Rosie, Earley, Rebecka, Goldsworthy, Kate   +9 more
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