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Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah, Habtamu Alem, Abdulai Adams, Tomáš Ratinger, Miroslava Bavorová   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

From NIL to real estate: strategic revenue adaptation in the post-house era of college athletics. [PDF]

Front Sports Act Living
Webster NR, Carr J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li, Vanessa Ormeño‐Candelario, Xueli Chen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Challenges of healthcare quality in Kenya's tertiary hospitals: assessing the contribution and constraints of asset leasing financing mechanism. [PDF]

BMC Health Serv Res
Karino E, Ndegwa J, Were V.
europepmc   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of digital technology on herders' grassland leasing-in decisions in Inner Mongolia, China. [PDF]

PLoS One
Xue C, Yong M, Du F, Feng Z, Han J, Lin H.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Interventions to Improve Access to Financial Services for Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Evidence and Gap Map. [PDF]

Campbell Syst Rev
Dela Cruz NAO, Villanueva ACB, Tolin L, Disse S, Lensink R, White H.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

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, Sanzidur Rahman, Giacomo Zanello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emerging migrant workers and aspiring capitalist farmers in the aftermath of the land rush in Ethiopia. [PDF]

Agric Human Values
Belay M.
europepmc   +1 more source