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

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability Strategies in the Cocoa‐Chocolate Value Chain: An Analysis Using Stakeholder Theory, Global Value Chain Theory, and Resource Dependence Theory

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate‐Smart Dairy Practices: The Role of Practice Clusters in Enhancing the Performance of Dairy Farms in Kenya

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate variability is affecting the productivity, profitability, and resilience of smallholder dairy producers in developing countries. The adoption of climate‐smart (CS) dairy practices has been promoted to mitigate these negative effects. However, while interest in dairy CS practices is growing, empirical evidence on their adoption patterns
Mercy Mburu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design and trial of a comprehensive home composting evaluation tool

open access: yesInternational Journal of Recycling of Organic Waste in Agriculture
Purpose: In this study, a comprehensive home composting evaluation tool (HCET) was designed and trialled to support the analysis of empirical and quality assurance parameters of home composting systems.
Sabina Mensah   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A review of vegetable waste bio-processing techniques in rural areas [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Recycling of Organic Waste in Agriculture
Purpose: Vegetable waste (VW) could cause environmental problems if not properly managed. Due to rural living conditions and a relatively low residence density, VW is usually disposed of in landfills.
Noorafizah Murshid   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pricing Dynamics in the US Hemp Market: A Vertical Price Transmission Analysis of the Hemp Value Chain

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The US hemp market is a new and nascent industry that has been devoid of research for about half a century. This study examined the effects of exogenous shock on price at each phase of the value chain—Farm (hemp biomass), and its impact on prices at other phases of the value chain—Intermediary Processor (crude cannabidiol hemp) and Final ...
Solomon Odiase   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fungal functional metabolism succession contributes to product efficiency during co-composting of domestic garbage and cow manure

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Improving composting efficiency by adding domestic garbage and analyzing the associated microbial mechanisms constitute the foundation for promoting the utilization of agricultural waste.
Cece Qiao   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

AI Guided Protein Design for Next‐Generation Autogenic Engineered Living Materials

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Autogenic engineered living materials (ELMs) integrate biology and materials science to create self‐regenerating and self‐healing materials. This perspective highlights emerging strategies in protein engineering and AI‐guided de novo design to expand the capabilities of autogenic ELMs.
Hoda M. Hammad, Anna M. Duraj‐Thatte
wiley   +1 more source

Core fungal species strengthen microbial cooperation in a food-waste composting process

open access: gold, 2022
Yuxiang Zhao   +6 more
openalex   +1 more source

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