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Can Non-farm Employment Improve Dietary Diversity of Left-Behind Family Members in Rural China?

open access: yesFoods
Rural residents in China are still at risk of malnutrition, and increasing dietary diversity is crucial to improving their health. This study empirically analyzed the impact of non-farm employment on the dietary diversity of rural left-behind family ...
Yonghu Zhang, Yifeng Zhang, Tingjin Wang
doaj   +1 more source

Swedish Consumers' Willingness‐to‐Pay for Plant‐Based Proteins in Pasta Sauce: Preferences and Policy Scenarios

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores Swedish consumers' protein preferences by estimating the willingness‐to‐pay (WTP) for minced meat and plant‐based proteins in pasta sauce from an in‐store experiment (n = 206) and an online discrete choice experiment (n = 517). On average, the WTP was highest for minced meat.
Emilia Mattsson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Consumers' Willingness to Pay a Premium for Climate‐Friendly Food Production: The Role of Production Method Information and Social Norms

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether information about production methods and social norms can increase consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) a price premium for food produced using climate‐friendly farming methods. A randomized survey experiment was conducted with 1568 respondents across Denmark, Lithuania, and Spain, who were assigned to one of four ...
Kassa Tarekegn Erekalo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

OPTIMAL ORIENTATION OF FARMS DEPENDING ON MANPOWER AND BUILDING FACILITIES IN CATTLE BREEDING

open access: yesEkonomika Poljoprivrede (1979), 2006
An influence of available manpower and building facilities in cattle breeding, on family farm optimal production orientation, were analyzed in the study.
Ljubomir Bastajić, Biljana Veljković
doaj  

Video and Text‐Based Supplemental Health Information and Consumer Willingness to Pay for Nutrient‐Enhanced Eggs

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutritional information is very important in the food choices of consumers. However, when they are too scientific or technical, they have the potential to confuse consumers, resulting in information asymmetry and dissuading them from making beneficial choices.
Edeoba W. Edobor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing sustainability of different forms of farm organization: adaptation of IDEA method to rubber family farms in Thailand

open access: yesBiotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement, 2019
Description of the subject. With increasing concerns on the sustainability of agricultural systems, many tools have been developed to assess farm sustainability. Objectives. The main objective of this study was to assess and compare the sustainability of
Biret, C.   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cost Pass‐Through in Crisis: Evidence From the German Malt‐Beer Supply Chain

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Global agri‐food supply chains are increasingly exposed to geopolitical shocks, climate volatility, and market consolidation, factors that disrupt traditional price relationships and reshape market power dynamics. Nowhere is this more visible than in the brewing sector, where agricultural raw materials meet complex industrial processing and ...
Nikolas Bublik, Lukáš Čechura
wiley   +1 more source

INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAMILY FARM INCOME, FARM SIZE AND FIELD CROP PRODUCTION STRUCTURE

open access: yesEkonomika Poljoprivrede (1979), 2011
The greatest share of field crop production (88% оf corn, 73% wheat, 65% sunflower and about 50% of soybean and sugar beet production) in Serbia may be attributed to family farms.
Petar Munćan
doaj  

Farm family effects of adopting improved and hybrid sorghum seed in the Sudan Savanna of West Africa. [PDF]

open access: yesFood Policy, 2018
Smale M   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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