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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar +2 more
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Quality evaluations should not be taken for granted
California Agriculture, 2007 Subjective quality-evaluation errors in agriculture, such as discarding good-quality product and packing poor-quality product, can be costly to growers and workers. This study of workers and supervisors in a strawberry-plant packingshed
Gregory Encina Billikopf
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THE ROLE OF FARM OWNERSHIP IN OFF-FARM WORK PARTICIPATION [PDF]
A labor supply model is used to examine the relationship between farm ownership and operators' participation in the off-farm labor market for the Northeast region.
Li, Farong +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli +2 more
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The Effect of HIV/AIDS Driven Labor Organization on Agrobiodiversity: an Empirical Study in Ethiopia [PDF]
Improved micronutrient intake contributes to delaying the progression of HIV into AIDS and to reducing HIV infection rates. Higher agrobiodiversity in the homegarden contributes to improving the nutritional status of farm households. Farm households with
Gebreselassie, Kidist +2 more
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, 2019 This study examines recall bias in farm labor by conducting a randomized survey experiment in Ghana. Hours of farm labor obtained from a recall survey conducted at the end of the season are compared with data collected weekly throughout the season.
Oseni, Gbemisola +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner +3 more
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Liberating bodies and food systems from the everyday violence of industrial sustenance
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community DevelopmentFirst paragraph: Seth M. Holmes’s book, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, initially published in 2013 and revised in 2023, lays out the hidden costs of superfoods that are widely considered to be health-giving and ...
David Fazzino
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Adjusting the Labor Supply to Mitigate Violent Shocks: Evidence from Rural Colombia [PDF]
This paper studies the use of labor markets to mitigate the impact of violent shocks on households in rural areas in Colombia. It examines changes in the labor supply from on-farm to off-farm labor as a means of coping with the violent shock and the ...
Ana María Ibáñez L. +2 more
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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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