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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
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Strengthening Institutions for Worker Empowerment: Capacity Building among Civil Society Organizations in China [PDF]
, 2008 The series Verite Works profiles initiatives to improve workplace conditions around the world. This issue describes a two year program aimed at building Civil Society Organizations (CSO) in China, with the goal of improving working conditions by ...
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Helping People and Places Move Out of Poverty: Progress and Learning 2010 [PDF]
, 2011 Presents a mid-course review of a ten-year program to help the poor build economic security in the Southeast. Examines impact, lessons learned, factors that facilitated or impeded progress, how resources were leveraged, changing contexts, and next ...
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe +2 more
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The Impact of Norwegian Labor Market Policy on Disability Employment
Nordic Journal of Working Life StudiesDespite generous welfare systems and relatively high employment rates, sizable employment gaps persist in the Nordic countries between people with disabilities and the general population.
Julie Ulstein
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Shared Prosperity, Stronger Regions: An Agenda for Rebuilding America's Older Core Cities [PDF]
, 2006 Explores opportunities for community collaborations to promote economic development and neighborhood revitalization, and offers strategies for public/private investment.
Radhika K. Fox +2 more
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