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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Sustainability Information on Consumers' Preferences for Fungus‐Resistant Grape Wine

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The demand for sustainable food production is intensifying the need to reduce the environmental and social impacts of pesticide use in agriculture. In viticulture, where dependence on pesticides is high because grapevines are susceptible to fungal diseases, fungus‐resistant grape varieties (PIWI) offer a promising strategy to reduce chemical ...
Daniel Vecchiato   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drought Exposure and Dynamic Input Adjustment in North Central U.S. Agriculture

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether realized extreme drought episodes affect the speed of adjustment of derived input demands and output supplies toward their long‐run equilibrium in U.S. agriculture, focusing on states in the North Central Region.
Victor H. Lana Pinto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence–Based Surgical Phase Analysis Enables Objective Assessment of Surgeon Skill in Robotic Distal Gastrectomy: A Multicenter Study

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim Artificial intelligence (AI)–based surgical video analysis can automate time‐consuming manual assessments and enable objective characterization of surgical workflows. We aimed to construct a large, multicenter, fully annotated dataset of robotic distal gastrectomy (RDG) videos and evaluate the feasibility and performance of an AI model for
Masaru Komatsu   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards greater sensitivity: advancing social life cycle assessment for the coffee sector in Brazil and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Life Cycle Assess
Thom B   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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