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Supermarkets, New-Generation Wholesalers, Tomato Farmers, and NGOs in Nicaragua [PDF]
Based on a survey of 145 tomato farmers and interviews with supermarket chains, NGOs, wholesalers, and farmer organizations in 2004, this paper examines the determinants and effects of farmers' participation in supermarket channels, with and without ...
Balsevich, Fernando +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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The organic market in the Netherlands [PDF]
, 2011 The organic sector in the Netherlands is varied and vibrant. To be able to adequately respond to market trens, opportunities and threats, farmers and their partners in the production chains need high quality information about consumption and trends.
Meeusen, Marieke
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor +3 more
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Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Shopping Behaviors and Fruit and Vegetable Consumption of Farmers' Market Incentive Program Users in Illinois. [PDF]
Ethn Dis, 2020 Singleton CR +3 more
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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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Micro-Level Decision for Area Shift in Favour of High-Value Crops: A Case of Horticultural Crops [PDF]
Area shift towards horticultural crops is vital for increasing farm income, productivity and overall employment in the agricultural sector. Several economic (price and income) and non-economic (food-security concerns) factors influence farmers’ decisions
Mehta, Pradeep Kumar
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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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Modeling Farmers' Use of Market Advisory Services [PDF]
In an effort to improve marketing of their products, many farmers use market advisory services (MAS). To date, there is only fragmented anecdotal information about how farmers actually use the recommendations of market advisory services in their ...
Good, Darrel L. +2 more
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