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The Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Cafeterias: Evidence From US Military Dining Facilities
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Providing nutritious meals in institutional settings with financial constraints, such as military dining facilities, is challenging. The US Department of War (DoW) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) collaborated to modernize the Basic Daily Food Allowance (BDFA) using an optimization model that incorporates service members' consumption ...
Linlin Fan +8 more
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Cogent Economics & FinanceSorghum farming is vital due to its resilience and suitability in the marginal lands of Africa, playing a key role in food security and economic stability.
Thedy Kimbi +4 more
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Coordinating a three-level contract farming supply chain with option contracts considering risk-averse farmer and retailer. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Liao C, Lu Q, Lin L.
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
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Contract Farming Preferences of Smallholder Rice Producers in Benin: A Stated Choice Model Using Mixed Logit Erodibility [PDF]
Tropicultura, 2017 In developing countries, smallholder farmers face many constraints including lack of information, and lack of access to credit and markets. To overcome these constraints, smallholder farmers can engage in contract farming. However, contract farming needs
Arouna, A. +4 more
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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang +4 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To increase farmer adoption of green practices, the EU Common Agricultural Policy includes both mandatory (conditionality) and voluntary instruments (eco‐schemes–ECS– and more demanding, multi‐annual agri‐environment‐climate measures –AECM–). Building on the experiment of Barreiro‐Hurle et al.
L. Sanchez‐Mata +4 more
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Contract farming and pro-environmental behavior: insights from beef cattle farmers
Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsIntroductionFacilitating and motivating farmers to adopt standardized pro-environmental production technologies serve as a solution to agricultural surface pollution.
Yuan Liang +4 more
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Chinese Trade Competition and Rural Mexican Migration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 reshaped global trade, reducing U.S. demand for Mexican manufactured goods and weakening Mexico's manufacturing employment. This study estimates how this trade‐induced decline affected migration and employment decisions among rural Mexicans.
Zachariah Rutledge, Joaquin Mayorga
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Contract farming in Brazil – an approach to Law and Economics
Revista Direito GVContract farming is based on agreements settled prior to the farmer deciding about agricultural production, and influence their judgment regarding inputs and production systems. Therefore, they provide means of production coordination and safety for both
Kassia Watanabe +2 more
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