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Reconfiguring Fresh Produce Supply Chains in Response to Drought Risk: Evidence From the U.S. Broccoli Market

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drought is among the most severe and persistent threats to food supply chains, and relocating production to less drought‐prone regions offers a strategy to reduce this risk. This is particularly relevant for fresh vegetables, which are highly water‐intensive, yet drought‐driven reconfiguration strategies remain understudied.
Bingyan Dai   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Irrigation system performance in farmer managed irrigation systems in Hunza-Gojal - Final report submitted to Aga Khan Foundation [PDF]

open access: yes
Performance evaluation / Irrigation systems / Farmer managed irrigation systems / Pakistan ...
IIMI. Pakistan
core  

Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Report of the State Irrigation Commissioner to the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, 1924-26

open access: yes, 1926
WATER COMMISSION, KANSAS -- “The Kansas Water Commission was created by an Act of Legislature in 1917 for the purpose of investigating and controlling the problems of flood prevention, drainage, domestic water supply, water power, navigation and ...
Kansas. State Irrigation Commissioner
core   +1 more source

Economic Impact of Sustainability in Wine Sector: A Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability has become a key issue in the wine sector, raising questions about its compatibility with firms' economic performance. Despite growing attention to environmental and social practices, evidence on their economic implications remains fragmented.
Valentina Di Chiara   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Viewpoint – A hybrid approach to statutory water law to support smallholder farmer-led irrigation development (FLID) in Sub-Saharan Africa

open access: yesWater Alternatives, 2019
Millions of small-scale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa who are driving farmer-led irrigation development (FLID) have been turned into criminal offenders or, at least, categorically marginalised under widespread water permit systems. Under these systems,
Barbara van Koppen, Barbara Schreiner
doaj  

Cross‐Sectoral AI Integration Is Essential to Tackling Food Waste and Food Insecurity: A Roadmap for Developing Resilient Food Systems

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
As food insecurity and global food demands surge, artificial intelligence (AI)‐based technologies offer promising opportunities to reduce food loss and waste. In this perspective, current AI adoption across the food supply chain is assessed using various academic, industry, and policy sources.
Akansha Prasad   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lost ground, lost value: Investigating the relationship between soil erosion and agricultural land value

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the impact of soil erosion on agricultural land values in the United States (US) Midwest. Based on a novel county‐level panel data set with information on soil erosion levels and agricultural land values covering five census years (1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017), we separately investigate the direct effect of two types ...
Le Chen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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