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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Collective agri‐environmental schemes offer a promising approach to improve biodiversity promotion in agriculture by providing landscape connectivity. However, how to design these schemes to foster participation in the presence of farmers' heterogeneous preferences and perceived transaction costs remains an open question.
Louisa Wyss +3 more
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International Journal of Population Data ScienceObjectives Policies designed to support the sustainability of farming are multiple, although developed with little knowledge about the intricacies of farming households.
Claire Hargreaves +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Due to complexity of smallholder farms, many times technologies with great potential fail to achieve the desired impact in leveraging productivity and profitability of the farming community.
Jashanjot Kaur +15 more
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Agronomic and Nutritional Perspectives on Vegetable Crops in Africa
AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.Vegetable production plays a key role in food security, nutrition, and livelihoods across Africa. Moreover, African indigenous vegetables emerge as underutilized yet highly valuable crops, rich in macro‐ and micronutrients, as well as bioactive compounds with an array of health benefits.
Đorđe Vojnović +4 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the determinants of generative AI (GenAI) knowledge and usage among agricultural extension professionals. Drawing on survey data from agricultural extension personnel in Tennessee, we employ regression analyses and latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) for topic modeling of open‐ended responses to study the knowledge and usage ...
Abdelaziz Lawani +3 more
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Greek Farm Households: Income inequality, poverty and distributional impact of farm income [PDF]
This paper examines the incidence of income inequality and poverty, and the impact of farm income on inequality. A detailed typology of farm households (FHs) is developed, based on Household Budget Survey micro-data.
Pavlos Karanikolas, Stavros Zografakis
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Labor markets and labor allocative efficiency among farm households in western Kenya [PDF]
, 2009 This paper evaluates how efficiently farm households allocate labor between farm and offfarm activities. It estimates farm and off-farm labor supply functions to determine the factors that influence labor allocation. Both the shadow wage and the off-farm
Kuyvenhoven, A. +3 more
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The determinants of off-farm employment and the impact of off-farm employment on food consumption in rural Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2010 Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 27-30).This study analyses the determinants of off-farm employment in rural Ethiopia using a representative sample farm households from four regions of the country.
Shifa, Mhbuba Ahmad
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Does a Specialized Niche Market Vegetable Processor Enjoy Bargaining Power?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Agribusiness companies may achieve competitive advantage through specialization within niche markets. One such niche is the fresh‐cut fruit and vegetable market, which has been steadily growing in Germany. This study examines whether the specialization of a German fresh‐cut producer grants it with market power within this niche market.
Nikolas Bublik +3 more
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INCOME, WEALTH, AND THE ECONOMIC WELL-BEING OF FARM HOUSEHOLDS [PDF]
Agricultural policy is rooted in the 1930s notion that providing transfers of money to the farm sector translates into increased economic well-being of farm families.
El-Osta, Hisham S. +4 more
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