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Heavy Metal Contamination: Impacts From Plants to the Food Chain and Eco‐Friendly Amelioration Strategies

AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.
Heavy metal pollution reduces soil health and threatens food safety by entering plants; however, the use of nanoparticles, biofertilizers, and organic fertilizers such as biochar offers a promising strategy for improvement and sustainable agriculture. ABSTRACT Heavy metal (HM) pollution, resulting from human activities such as mining and the excessive ...
Sina Siavash Moghaddam, Latifeh Pourakbar, Sevda Alizadeh, Zahra Alizadeh, Jelena Popović‐Djordjević   +4 more
wiley   +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

The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Too Complex to Choose? The Role of Heuristics in Shaping Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Income Stabilization Tool in Italy

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European agriculture is increasingly exposed to economic instability driven by extreme weather events, market volatility, and geopolitical tensions. To manage these growing risks, farmers are encouraged to adopt innovative risk management strategies such as the Income Stabilization Tool (IST), which offers protection against severe income ...
Alice Stiletto, Ruggiero Rippo, Samuele Trestini, Elisa Giampietri, Roberta Raffaelli, Simone Cerroni   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Participating in Agricultural Global Value Chains Promote Agricultural Growth?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between GVC participation and agricultural value‐added growth in 43 countries over the period 1995–2022. In contrast to prior literature, we disaggregate the agricultural sector into four sub‐sectors namely crop cultivation, animal production, forestry and fishing.
Taner Turan, Halit Yanıkkaya, Hüseyin Alperen Özer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coastal Wetlands Drive Isotopic Niche Plasticity of Top Predator Fish Communities in Green Bay, Lake Michigan (USA). [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Rojas TV, O'Reilly KE, Houghton CJ, Shrovnal JS, Berg MB, Uzarski DG, Lamberti GA, Forsythe PS.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Not All Agreements Are Equal: Heterogeneous Effects of RTAs on Latin American Agri‐Food Exports, 1990–2019

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the final decade of the 20th century, Latin American countries have increasingly regarded the signing of regional trade agreements (RTAs) as a promising strategy for expanding their exports. Within this context, the main objective of this study is to assess the impact of RTAs on agri‐food exports in Latin America over the period 1990 ...
María‐Isabel Ayuda, Ignacio Belloc, Vicente Pinilla   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Livelihood Diversification as an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change and Household Food Security of Livestock Holders in Pakistan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rural farm households continue to face significant risks from climate change, resulting in many of them diversifying their livelihood sources into other income‐generating activities to increase their incomes and improve food and nutrition security. In this study, we examine the drivers and impact of farm households' participation in livelihood
Mahwish Arshad, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Deformity, erosion, lesion, tumor, and parasite (DELT) anomalies in fish communities of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA: a regional assessment and potential landscape drivers. [PDF]

Environ Monit Assess
Breitmeyer SE, McLaughlin P, Blazer VS, Noe GB, Smalling KL, Wertz T, Wagner T.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Prevalence of MSI‐H/dMMR Colorectal Cancer in Japan: Data From the Clinical Study Group of the University of Osaka‐Colorectal Registry

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Using a multicenter Japanese colorectal cancer cohort from 25 institutions, we analyzed 1464 patients across all disease stages and tumor locations to determine the prevalence and clinicopathological features of MSI‐H/dMMR colorectal cancer. MSI‐H/dMMR tumors accounted for 9.4% of cases overall, were present in 22% of right‐sided colon cancers, and ...
Yoshihiro Morimoto, Mamoru Uemura, Yoshinori Kagawa, Hidekazu Takahashi, Masayuki Hiraki, Yozo Suzuki, Shinichi Yoshioka, Mitsuyoshi Tei, Shu Okamura, Yukako Mokutani, Atsushi Naito, Shinji Tokuyama, Takamichi Komori, Akinobu Yasuyama, Genta Sawada, Yujiro Fujie, Shinya Yamashita, Naotsugu Haraguchi, Yusuke Matsuura, Chu Matsuda, Yoshinao Chinen, Tatsushi Shingai, Katsuki Danno, Nobuo Tanaka, Kazuya Sakata, Kohei Murata, Yuichiro Doki, Hidetoshi Eguchi   +27 more
wiley   +1 more source