Results 111 to 120 of about 37,579 (307)
Agribusiness, 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
Effects of Prenatal and Early Life Malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek Famine [PDF]
This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy ...
Sven Neelsen, Thomas Stratmann
core
Environmental Research: HealthWe aimed to evaluate whether the association between long-term temperature variability (TV) and cardio-cerebrovascular diseases (CCVDs) was affected by famine exposure in different age stages. We used data from the fourth national urban and rural elderly
Yao Wu +8 more
doaj +1 more source
Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley +1 more source
Impact of Early Life Famine Exposure on Body Composition and Metabolic Profiles in Adulthood
Maternal and Child NutritionThe relationship between the famine and metabolic syndrome has been reported, but there is a lack of more detailed changes in metabolic profiles. It is unclear how famine affects body composition.
Shuaihua Song +10 more
doaj +1 more source
Agribusiness, 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
Return and Volatility Spillovers Among Major Cotton Markets
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores return and volatility transmission among major cotton markets. Several events have disrupted cotton supply and demand in recent years, leading to heightened price volatility and significant shifts in market interconnections.
Susmitha Kalli +3 more
wiley +1 more source
From famine to food crisis. What history can teach us about local and global subsistence crises
The range of famine prone regions in the world has been shrinking for centuries; it’s currently mainly limited to sub-Sahara Africa. Yet the impact of endemic hunger has not declined and the early 21st century seems to be faced with a new threat: global ...
Vanhaute, Eric
core
Speculative Price Bubbles in the Rice Market and the 1974 Bangladesh Famine [PDF]
This paper investigates the role played by speculative price bubbles in destabilizing food markets in Bangladesh during the 1974 famine. The hypothesis of speculative price bubbles in the rice market is tested using weekly price data.
Charles Becker, Munir Quddus
core