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Efficiency and Technology Gap in European Apple Production—A Metafrontier Model for Germany, Italy, and Poland

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
wiley   +1 more source

Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
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, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Widespread heat stress will become the norm in a warming Southeast Asia. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Manimaran S, Wagenaar D, Nam C, Kasmalkar I, Lierhammer L, Bouwer LM, Lallemant D.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
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, Juo‐Han Tsay, Sarah A. Low   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soil Microbes Mediate Productivity Differences Between Natural and Plantation Forests. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Zhang X, Yang M, Liu Y, Ye J, Tangyu J, Gao J, Liu W, Fan Y.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Economic and Environmental Tradeoffs in Cultivating Short Food Supply Chains With Urban Indoor Agriculture

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study advances the literature on sustainable urban agriculture and alternative sustainable food production systems, which have gained momentum due to the need to strengthen regional food supply chains and meet the growing urban demand for fresh food. Indoor agriculture (IA) holds promise for year‐round cultivation of fresh produce even in
Joseph Seong, H. Christopher Peterson, Simone Valle de Souza   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate-driven reproductive decline in Southern right whales. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Charlton C, Germishuizen M, O'Shannessy B, McCauley R, Vermeulen E, Seyboth E, Brownell RL, Burnell S.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Linking drought indicators and crop yields through causality and information transfer: a phenology-based analysis. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Yeşilköy S, Baydaroğlu Ö, Demir I.
europepmc   +1 more source

Global Trends in Drought Impacts on Wildlife-A Review. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol
McTigue LE, van den Bosch M, Boone HM, McCaslin HM, Jones LN, Mola JM, Steel ZL.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Analysing the vulnerability of mangrove forest by vegetation health assessment: a study of Indian sundarbans deltaic region. [PDF]

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Ghosh A, Mondal P.
europepmc   +1 more source