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

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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

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

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Convergence of green total factor productivity in China’s service industry

Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022
With the rising global concern over environment and energy issues, there are many scholars incorporating them into total factor productivity (TFP) analytical framework. This paper aims to outline the dynamic change trend and convergence characteristics of green total factor productivity (GTFP) of 14 sub-sectors in China's service industry.
Zhenqiu Wu   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Green Growth, Carbon Intensity Regulation, and Green Total Factor Productivity in China

The Energy Journal, 2022
Based on input-oriented Malmquist productivity index and parametric decomposition approach, this paper measures China’s green total factor productivity (TFP) index and its growth sources using a panel dataset of 30 provinces of China mainland from 1997 to 2014, and assesses the effect of CO2 intensity regulation on the green TFP growth in China.
Xiaobo Shen, Boqiang Lin
openaire   +1 more source

Impact of fiscal decentralization on green total factor productivity

International Journal of Production Economics, 2018
Abstract Based on panel data from 2000 to 2015, this study estimates the green total factor productivity (GTFP) of each of the 11 provinces in the Yangtze River economic belt using z slacks-based measure in data envelopment analysis model. The influences of fiscal decentralization and environmental regulation on GTFP are analyzed by calculating the ...
Malin Song, Juntao Du, Kim Hua Tan
openaire   +1 more source

The impact of green bond issuance on corporate green total factor productivity

Journal of Environmental Management
As green financial instruments continue to permeate the Chinese market, green bonds, as a specialized debt financing tool, have provided corporations with both financing convenience and opportunities for transformation, marking a significant breakthrough in the exploration of ways to enhance corporate green total factor productivity. This paper focuses
Zhonghua, Cheng, Minghui, Zhao
openaire   +2 more sources

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