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Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating Europe's agricultural transition: Systemic policy approaches to mixed farming and agroforestry [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Open Research Europe
Mixed farming and agroforestry systems offer the potential to optimise resource use and reduce environmental impacts by integrating crops, livestock and trees.
Holger Pabst, Simone Sterly, Johannes Lang   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
wiley   +1 more source

A Comparative LCA of Field Grown Lettuce Versus Vertically Farmed Lettuce

Food and Energy Security
Climate change has accelerated the degradation of agricultural land, prompting innovation to develop and adapt current global production systems to accommodate more people with increased demand for resources.
Michael Gargaro, Astley Hastings, Richard J. Murphy, Zoe M. Harris   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimating yield of food crops grown by smallholder farmers: A review in the Uganda context [PDF]

Precise agricultural statistics are essential for planning and evaluation of agricultural investments to improve the productivity and profitability of smallholder farming systems.
Benson, Todd, Fermont, Anneke
core  

Consumer Valuation of Meat Alternatives and Labeling Policies: A Comparative Perspective

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates and compares US consumer perceptions and the impact of environmental, human health, and animal welfare information related to conventional meat on preferences for meat alternatives and labeling policies. Using the best–worst scaling method across 10 different burger alternatives, our results show that the meat burger is
Daniele Asioli, Wei Yang, Jia Han, Quoc Cuong Nguyen, Massimiliano Petracci, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Labor constraints on choosing profitable products for part-time farmers in Swiss agriculture. [PDF]

Based on a conceptual framework, we develop the hypothesis that part-time farmers invest in less profitable products than full-time farms, due to the necessary minimum labour requirements which entering and running profitable production processes require.
Laure Latruffe, Stefan Mann
core   +1 more source

Policies and Farming System Resilience

, 2022
The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy appears essential for farming systems’ resilience, but its resilience-enabling effects in practice remain underexplored. We assessed how farming system actors perceive the CAP’s effects on resilience. The CAP contains a robustness-oriented approach, which actors expect to buffer stress and shocks, while adaptation ...
Buitenhuis, Yannick, Candel, Jeroen, Termeer, Katrien, Bardaji, Isabel, Coopmans, Isabeau, Lievens, Eewoud, Martikainen, Anna, Mathijs, Erik, Urquhart, Julie, Wauters, Erwin, Feindt, Peter H   +10 more
openaire  

Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková, Michiel van Dijk, Robert M'Barek, Hans van Meijl, Tomas Ratinger   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparing productivity growth in conventional and grassland dairy farms [PDF]

This paper analyzes technical efficiency and productivity growth of dairy farms in southern Germany. We compare the performance of farms operating on permanent grassland and conventional farms using fodder crops from arable land.
Kellermann, Magnus, Salhofer, Klaus
core   +1 more source