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Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

An investigation of consumer willingness to pay for traceable pork accompanied by supplementary quality assurance information

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
IntroductionWith increasing consumer concern regarding food safety, willingness to pay (WTP) for food has become a significant focal point of research. This study explored consumer willingness to pay for traceable pork in Shanghai with additional quality
Zengjin Liu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The fair lending laws and their enforcement [PDF]

open access: yes
Consumer credit ; Discrimination in consumer ...
John R. Walter
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Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Errors in variables and lending discrimination [PDF]

open access: yes
Consumer credit ; Discrimination in consumer ...
Jed L. DeVaro, Jeffrey M. Lacker
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Credit constraints in the market for consumer durables: evidence from micro data on car loans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
We investigate the empirical significance of borrowing constraints in the market for consumer loans. We set up a theoretical model of consumer loan demand, which in the presence of credit rationing implies restrictions on the elasticities of loan demand ...
Attanasio, O.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

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

Identification of the risks of consumer credit cooperatives

open access: yesВестник университета, 2019
Various types of classification of risks of credit consumer cooperatives have been considered. The author’s approach to the classification of cooperative risks based on the account of losses associated with risk situations has been adduced.
V. Yu Didenko   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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