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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 +2 more
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OECD Imports: Diversification and quality search [PDF]
This paper explores the evolution of OECD imports over time and as a function of income levels, measuring the concentration of those imports across origin countries at the product level.
Céline CARRERE +3 more
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Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.This study reveals that sampling strategy (i.e., sampling size and approach) is a foundational prerequisite for building accurate and generalizable AI models in peptide discovery. Reaching a threshold of 7.5% of the total tetrapeptide sequence space was essential to ensure reliable predictions.
Meiru Yan +3 more
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Does non-farm income diversivication in Northern Albania offer an escape from rural poverty? [PDF]
The paper uses up-to-date household data from two Northern-Albanian regions. It summarises socio-economic facts on taking up remunerative non-farm employment and identifies the determinants of non-farm income diversification at the farm household level ...
Möllers, Judith +2 more
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Dimensions of the AI Divide: Digital Inequality and Psychological Consequences
AI &Innovation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational component of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Yet, the ways in which AI reshapes patterns of exclusion beyond questions of access and technical capability remain insufficiently theorized.
Christos Papaioannou
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Agricultural diversification and rural industrialization as a strategy for rural income growth and poverty reduction in Indochina and Myanmar [PDF]
CONTENTS: Introduction;concepts and rationale; concept of diversification; rationale for diversification; significance for IMR; Structural features of IMR and their relevance to diversification; evidence of diversification in the IMR; trends in areas and
Goletti, Francesco
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RURAL EMPLOYMENT AND INCOME DIVERSIFICATION IN PAKISTAN
Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2019 Rural households have different asset endowments and they either specialize in single activity or choose to earn both from farm and nonfarm activities. The study constructs Hirchman-Herfindahl Index to evaluate the household income diversification by employing survey data for rural household from Pakistan for the periods 2001-02 and 2010-11.
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt +6 more
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Sources of agricultural growth in India: role of diversification towards high-value crops [PDF]
"This study examines the sources of crop income growth in Indian agriculture over the 1980s and 1990s. Using a method developed by Minot (2003), the analysis decomposes crop income growth into the contribution of yield increases, area expansion, price ...
Joshi, P.K. +2 more
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Cogent Food & AgricultureThe study investigated the determinants of household income diversification and its effect on food security status among small-scale rural farmers in the Alfred Nzo District Municipality (ANDM).
Vusi Mbewana, Irrshad Kaseeram
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