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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

Komunikasi Persuasif Pengurus Koperasi Credit Union dalam Meningkatkan Jumlah Anggota di Desa Kasikan Kecamatan Tapung Hulu Kabupaten Kampar [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Cooperative credit union is a financial institution engaged in the savings and loan owned by its members, and aims for the welfare of its own members.
Nurjanah, N. (Nurjanah), Rio, S. (Simon)
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The IT System of the Clearing House (ITSCH) – a new tool to combat tax frauds

open access: yesPrawo Budżetowe Państwa i Samorządu, 2018
The presented publication is an attempt to analyse new tax law regulation – the electronic mechanism of network reporting: Communication System of Clearing House (Polish abbrev. STIR).
Mariusz Macudziński
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Certifications in Improving Household Food Security Among Peruvian Farmers

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving global food security requires sustainable transformations in agri‐food systems. Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) such as Organic and Fairtrade aim to internalize certain social and environmental costs while promoting more equitable value distribution, improved market access, and sustainable production practices.
Lisa‐Marie Schulte, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Competition and Financial Stability in European Cooperative Banks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Cooperative banks are a driving force for socially committed business at the local level, accounting for around one fifth of the European Union (EU) bank deposits and loans.
Fiordelisi, F, Mare, Davide
core   +1 more source

Multiobjective Environmental Cleanup with Autonomous Surface Vehicle Fleets Using Multitask Multiagent Deep Reinforcement Learning

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study presents a multitask strategy for plastic cleanup with autonomous surface vehicles, combining exploration and cleaning phases. A two‐headed Deep Q‐Network shared by all agents is traineded via multiobjective reinforcement learning, producing a Pareto front of trade‐offs.
Dame Seck   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative cranial biomechanics reveal macroevolutionary trends in theropod dinosaurs, with emphasis on Tyrannosauroidea

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Tyrannosaurus is viewed as a model organism in vertebrate paleontology, with numerous studies analyzing its feeding biomechanics. Nonetheless, the evolution of this feeding performance has been under‐addressed in Tyrannosauroidea, especially in basal tyrannosauroids. Here we used muscle‐force reconstruction and finite element analysis (FEA) to
Evan Johnson‐Ransom   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY AFTER A SOCIALIST REVOLUTION

open access: yesWorld Review of Political Economy, 2010
After a socialist revolution, scientific development of agricultural productivity is one of the new state's most important yet difficult tasks.
Wadi'h Halabi, Richard Levins
doaj   +1 more source

Essential work, invisible workers: The role of digital curation in COVID‐19 Open Science

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 703-717, April 2025.
Abstract In this paper, we examine the role digital curation practices and practitioners played in facilitating open science (OS) initiatives amid the COVID‐19 pandemic. In Summer 2023, we conducted a content analysis of available information regarding 50 OS initiatives that emerged—or substantially shifted their focus—between 2020 and 2022 to address ...
Irene V. Pasquetto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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