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Effects of Outsourced Agricultural Extension Services on the Technical Efficiency and Financial Returns of Soybean Farms in Northern Cameroon

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda, Doria A. Medondjeu, Dorothy E. Fon, Stefan Sieber   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do More Open Economies Export Less Diversely in Brazilian Agribusiness?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper asks whether municipalities with a larger export‐to‐revenue ratio display a more concentrated bundle of exported goods in Brazilian agribusiness. Recent advances in export imputation for Brazilian municipalities allow for an analysis of the concentration profile of each municipality and its association with export openness.
Alan Leal, Michelle Marcia Viana Martins
wiley   +1 more source

What Explains Racial Differences in Farm Succession Planning? Evidence From Decomposition and Counterfactual Analysis

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines racial differences in farm succession planning using survey data from Tennessee farmers. While observed differences between White and Black farmers are small, decomposition and counterfactual analyses show that structural characteristics, particularly farm size, would predict higher succession planning among White farmers ...
Abdelaziz Lawani, Anna‐Liisa Ihuhwa, Armine Poghosyan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Impact of Sustainability in Wine Sector: A Systematic Literature Review

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability has become a key issue in the wine sector, raising questions about its compatibility with firms' economic performance. Despite growing attention to environmental and social practices, evidence on their economic implications remains fragmented.
Valentina Di Chiara, Eugenio Pomarici, Leonardo Cei   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Agribusiness, 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

Crystal Structure Prediction of Inorganic Materials: A Benchmark and Modern Evaluation

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Predicting a crystal’s structure from composition alone is a long‐standing challenge in materials discovery. The CSP180 benchmark of 180 inorganic crystals evaluates thirteen crystal structure prediction algorithms requiring no density functional theory (DFT) against DFT‐based baselines across twelve metrics.
Lai Wei, Sadman Sadeed Omee, Rongzhi Dong, Nihang Fu, Yuqi Song, Edirisuriya M. Dilanga Siriwardane, Meiling Xu, Ming Hu, Chris Wolverton, Jianjun Hu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal Patterns and Driving Factors of Water Self-Purification Capacity in the Source Area of the Western Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion. [PDF]

Toxics
Xing F, Lu H, Yan B, Xiao S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Physics‐Guided Modeling of Temperature‐Dependent Electrical Conductivity of Functional Oxides

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
This complete workflow presents an automated, data‐driven screening of functional oxides based on their predicted electrical conductivity. A curated dataset is fed into TriCondNet, a charge‐transport, physics‐guided neural network that classifies an input composition's conduction mechanism and then simulates its conductivity–temperature profile.
Elias Assaad, Jae Evans, Troy D. Manning, Matthew J. Rosseinsky, Kerys Trathen, Bei Peng, Matthew S. Dyer   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Power and entitlement: Addressing the structural drivers of food insecurity and malnutrition. [PDF]

PLOS Glob Public Health
Walls H, McKee M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sound‐Based Assembly of Magnetically Actuated Soft Robots Toward Enhanced Release of Extracellular Vesicles

Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
Magnetic soft robots offer promise in biomedicine due to their wireless actuation and rapid response, but current fabrication methods are complex and have limited cellular compatibility. A new, contactless bioassembly strategy using hydrodynamic instabilities is introduced, enabling customizable, centimeter‐scale robots.
Wei Gao, Riccardo Tognato, Micaela Natta, Elena Della Bella, Alessandro Cianciosi, Tiziano Serra   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source