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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
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Diversification strategies and their impact on farm performance
Apstract: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, 2013 The objective of this study is to identify factors determining the economic performance of agricultural holdings in Italy, with specific attention to the impact of the adoption of on-farm diversification strategies, namely income diversification and ...
Cristina Salvioni, Lara Fontanella
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Off-farm Income and Risky Investments: What Happens to Farm and Nonfarm Assets? [PDF]
Off-farm work improves and reduces the riskiness of household income. Theoretical analyses reveal that the level and riskiness of off-farm income affect demand for farm/nonfarm investments.
Ramaswami, Bharat +5 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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Measuring Farm Net Income To Better Achieve Policy Objectives [PDF]
The farm problem is a longstanding topic in agricultural economics, and farm organizations continue to press claims that they are disadvantaged and deserve public support.
Freshwater, David
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Traceability of Agri‐Food Products: The Key to Conscious Trade
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Globalization and growing concerns about sustainability have led to improvements in product traceability, quality, and sustainability. Traceability contributes to environmental protection and supports sustainable development by fostering transparency in agricultural practices and encouraging the responsible use of resources.
Scarlett Queen Almeida Bispo +5 more
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF OFF-FARM ACTIVITY PARTICIPATION IN BANGLADESH [PDF]
Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2013 The study was conducted in two districts of Bangladesh to determine the factors affecting the participation in off-farm activity. A total of 150 sample farmers were selected for interview through random sampling technique.
M.S. Rahman
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Off-farm income diversification among rural farm households in Nigeria
Agricultura Tropica et Subtropica, 2019 This paper aims to analyze the extent of off-farm income diversification of farm households in rural areas of Nigeria by age, gender, educational qualification, farm size, household size and across the different regions in the country.
Adeoye Ifeoluwa Damilola +3 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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The role of non-farm income and employment support in farmers’ decisions on crop insurance
Agricultural and Resource EconomicsPurpose. This paper explores the farmers’ non-farm income (NFI) and individual, combined and differential effects of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) on crop insurance adoption in India under Pradhan Mantri Fasal ...
Saurabh Bharne +3 more
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