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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

Jasmonates Alleviate Abiotic Stress and Enhance Fruit Quality in Crop Plants: An Updated Review. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
García-Pastor ME, Erazo-Lara A, Padilla-González PA, Martínez-Romero D, Serrano M, Valero D, Agulló V.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reconfiguring Fresh Produce Supply Chains in Response to Drought Risk: Evidence From the U.S. Broccoli Market

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drought is among the most severe and persistent threats to food supply chains, and relocating production to less drought‐prone regions offers a strategy to reduce this risk. This is particularly relevant for fresh vegetables, which are highly water‐intensive, yet drought‐driven reconfiguration strategies remain understudied.
Bingyan Dai, Miguel I. Gómez, Harry M. Kaiser   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the influence of magnetic iron as an eco-friendly soil amendment applications on agronomic and fruit quality parameters of 'Fremont' mandarin. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Hamdy AE, Mekky AE, Abdel-Aziz HF, Abd El-Wahed AEN, Elnaggar IA, Mustafa AE, Mustafa EN, El-Shennawy SI, Mady EA, El-Flaah RF, Al-Saif AM.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Protection Motivation Theory and Farmers' Participation in Futures Markets: Evidence From Germany

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines why German farmers show limited adoption of commodity futures contracts despite substantial price volatility, applying Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) to understand the cognitive processes driving participation decisions in futures markets. Survey data from 303 German farmers collected in 2024 were analyzed using Partial
Hendrik Wever, Marius Michels, Oliver Musshoff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A bittersweet symphony: genetic insights into cider apple fruit quality. [PDF]

G3 (Bethesda)
Bouillon P, Zakalik D, Brown M, Krishna Kumar S, Peck G.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales, Alba J. Collart, Matthew G. Interis, Esther Mmenaa Agyemang‐Duah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimizing strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa cv. 'Ruby Gem') performance and fruit quality using sorbitol and boron foliar sprays. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Al-Abbasi AT, Sale YM, Alalam ATS, Khalid WK, Agha BS, Ahmad MA, Al-Dabbagh AD, Alalaf AH, Meftahizadeh H.   +8 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

Evolution of Physical Intelligence Across Scales

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
By following the evolution of physical intelligence across scales, this article shows how intelligence arises from materials, structures, physical interactions, and collectives. It establishes physical intelligence as the evolutionary foundation upon which embodied intelligence is built.
Ke Liu, Tianyun Huang, Aming Li, Pengyu Lv, Tingting Qin, Wenhui Chen, Hui Wei, Huiling Duan   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source