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Market Integration Shape Organic Farmers’ Organisation [PDF]

, 2008
Increasing consumption of organic products in globalised food chains will require the involvement of thousands more smallholder farmers in many regions of the world.
Delve, R.J., Egelyng, H., El-Araby, A., Halberg, Niels, Hauser, M., Jensen, Henning Høgh, Kledal, Paul Rye, Knudsen, Marie Trydeman, Liu, Yuexian, Mursal, Ahmed Musa, Oelofse, Myles, Salem, Sherif Gebril, Sultan, Tursinbek, Yuhiu, Q.   +13 more
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Mapping the “Supply–Demand–Flow” of Ecosystem Services for Ecosystem Management in China

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study develops a “supply–demand–flow” framework clarifies how ecosystem services move between regions by distinguishing potential and actual supply and demand. Using integrated biophysical–socioeconomic modeling, nine services in China were mapped.
Yikun Zhang, Yadong Yang, Yongsheng Wang, Guirui Yu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Eco‐Geography Reverses Dominant AMR Reservoirs in Klebsiella pneumoniae: Integron‐Rich Mobilomes and Cross‐Niche Connectivity

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Dominant antimicrobial resistance reservoirs in Klebsiella pneumoniae vary across eco‐geographic settings rather than following a universal pattern. Integrated One Health and global genomic analyses show that lineage structure, integron load, and cross‐niche connectivity shape whether AMR burden accumulates primarily in human or nonhuman compartments ...
Hui Lin, Biao Tang, Hao Xu, Jiajie Qian, Feifan Shi, Junhui Zhao, Xiaorui Mao, Xiaohe Hu, Ruishan Liu, Wenhong Liu, Xiawei Jiang, Beiwen Zheng, Guoping Zhao   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do people value farmers markets: A spatial hedonic pricing model approach

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
Farmers markets can generate positive externalities by improving food access and negative externalities through pollution. The presence of both may influence people’s willingness to pay (WTP) for living nearby.
Yanan Zheng, Meng Yang, Henry An, Feng Qiu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A possible dose–response association between distance to farmers’ markets and roadside produce stands, frequency of shopping, fruit and vegetable consumption, and body mass index among customers in the Southern United States

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background The association between farmers’ market characteristics and consumer shopping habits remains unclear. Our objective was to examine associations among distance to farmers’ markets, amenities within farmers’ markets, frequency of farmers’ market
Stephanie B. Jilcott Pitts, Jedediah Hinkley, Qiang Wu, Jared T. McGuirt, Mary Jane Lyonnais, Ann P. Rafferty, Olivia R. Whitt, Nancy Winterbauer, Lisa Phillips   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

State Implementation of the New WIC Produce Package: Opportunities and Barriers for WIC Clients to Use Their Benefits at Farmers' Markets [PDF]

, 2009
The new WIC fruit and vegetable package will create a $500 million market annually for produce. Even if 10% of these benefits were spent at farmers markets, it would provide a big boon for access to local food and to small farmers.
Andy Fisher, Nell Tessman
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Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich, Tim Ölkers, Vanessa Bonke, Oliver Musshoff   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Potato market access, marketing efficiency and on-farm value addition in Uganda

Scientific African, 2018
Understanding barriers to market access for smallholder farmers and their marketing efficiency when they participate in agricultural value chains is key to unlocking the market potential and overcoming market failures.
Harriet Kyomugisha, Christopher Sebatta, Johnny Mugisha   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Profitability of Organic Agriculture in a Transition Economy: the Case of Organic Contract Rice Farming in Lao PDR [PDF]

, 2008
Poverty is prevalent among smallholder farmers in transition economies where market failures prevail and where the capacity of the public sector is limited.
Cai, Junning, Leung, PingSun, Setboonsarng, Sununtar, Stefan, Adam   +3 more
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Did the Indian Green Revolution Change the Farm Size–Productivity Relationship?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between farm size and productivity during India's Green Revolution, a period of rapid technological transformation. Using a unique panel of over 5000 Indian farm households that spans the Green Revolution (1971–1999), we show that the classic (linear) inverse farm size–productivity relationship gradually evolved ...
Rabail Chandio, Leah E. M. Bevis
wiley   +1 more source