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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

Mapping demographic variations in sense of mastery across the world a cross-national analysis of 22 countries in the global flourishing study

Scientific Reports
Are certain parts of the world home to people with a higher sense of mastery? Does mastery vary across key demographic factors in similar or different ways across national contexts? These questions have been underexplored, or not explored at all.
Eric S. Kim, R. Noah Padgett, Matt Bradshaw, Ying Chen, William J. Chopik, Sakurako Okuzono, Renae Wilkinson, Margie E. Lachman, Byron R. Johnson, Tyler J. VanderWeele   +9 more
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The Impacts of Health and Environmental Information Nudges on Meat Choices: Where Does Goat Meat Fit?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amidst a recent surge in US goat meat imports to meet growing demand, this study contributes to the meat demand literature by examining consumer preferences for goat meat, a relatively healthy and environmentally friendly alternative to other popular meats.
Binod Khanal, Sunil P. Dhoubhadel, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Childhood predictors of balance in life: a cross-national analysis of the global flourishing study

Scientific Reports
Although the importance of balance has been recognized in various specific domains, from work-life balance to a balanced diet, there has been curiously little attention to balance in life overall (i.e., across all aspects of living).
Tim Lomas, R. Noah Padgett, James L. Ritchie-Dunham, James O. Pawelski, Koichiro Shiba, Byron R. Johnson, Tyler J. VanderWeele   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang, Edward C. Jaenicke, Martina Vecchi, Sheng‐Jang Sheu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural conditions, social networks, and the HIV vulnerability among Indonesian male labour migrants and motorbike taxi drivers

International Journal for Equity in Health
Background The Indonesian National AIDS report reveals that the percentage of HIV cases in the country is significantly higher in men compared to women, which is contrary to global AIDS data. Using a conceptual model of how social networks impact health,
Paul Russell Ward, Nelsensius Klau Fauk
doaj   +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

The mediating role of social networks and safety perceptions in the frailty–quality of life relationship among older people in rural and urban regions of Ghana

BMC Public Health
Background Frailty is a major public health concern among older people, particularly in resource-limited settings where it significantly reduces Quality of Life (QoL) and increases vulnerability to poor health outcomes.
Gideon Dzando, Paul R. Ward, Lillian Mwanri, Solomon Alhassan Yabila, Justice Moses K. Aheto, Rachel C. Ambagtsheer   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards 'Flourishing Studies': A network lens onto flourishing

Commonplace
Our grand challenges in science are those for which we cannot ignore the complexity of the world--the interconnectedness of our disciplines, systems, and groups.   How do we embrace complexity in the project of scientific discovery? This is perhaps the threshold question for our moment in the Earth and Space Sciences.
openaire   +1 more source

Topological Properties of International Commodity Market: How Uncertainty Affects the Linkages?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study aims to explore the network topology of the international commodity market by examining the interconnections among 21 commodity futures across various categories, including energy, precious and industrial metals, and agriculture. We analyze the market structure of these commodity futures under both low and high uncertainty conditions
Ibrahim Yagli, Bayram Deviren
wiley   +1 more source