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Family Strategies and Farming Changes: The Case of Family Farming in the Basque Country [PDF]
, 2017 Productive changes introduced by family dairy farms in the Basque Country seem to depend on a number of conditions, such as the farm's capacity for generating an adequate level of income, the possibility of finding an off-farm job, the family coming together on a common plan or strategy, whether the would-be successor sees the working conditions ...
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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
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Ekonomika Poljoprivrede (1979), 2008 Family farms play the most important role in cattle production in Republic of Serbia. These farms are dealing with different types of cattle production, and each production type requires different structure of investments.
Sanjin Ivanović +2 more
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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 +3 more
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török +6 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole +6 more
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Conserveries Mémorielles, 2013 The article explores the ways in which the Basotho, a late immigrant group into Gutu, have formulated strategies of belonging and anchored themselves among the dominant Karanga populations of south-eastern Zimbabwe.
Joseph Mujere
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Forage seeding in rangelands increases production and prevents weed invasion
California Agriculture, 2017 Increasing forage productivity in the Sierra foothill rangelands would help sustain the livestock industry as land availability shrinks and lease rates rise, but hardly any studies have been done on forage selections.
Josh Davy +3 more
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U.S. Consumer Preferences for Cage‐Free Eggs and Hen Housing Policies
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farm animal welfare (FAW) continues to be a divisive issue in the egg industry. In the United States, 10 states and most major retailers have implemented policies or voluntary pledges to transition to 100% cage‐free egg sales. We use best‐worst scaling and discrete choice experiments to evaluate U.S.
Vincenzina Caputo +3 more
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An analysis of the efficiency in a sample of small Italian farms part of the FADN dataset
Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2016 Italian farms have an average surface lower than 10 hectares and they are predominately scattered in the upland rural areas. The most important aspect of small family farms is to protect the rural environment against the socio-economic marginalization of
Nicola GALLUZZO
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