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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drought is among the most severe and persistent threats to food supply chains, and relocating production to less drought‐prone regions offers a strategy to reduce this risk. This is particularly relevant for fresh vegetables, which are highly water‐intensive, yet drought‐driven reconfiguration strategies remain understudied.
Bingyan Dai +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales +3 more
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Cleaner Logistics and Supply ChainObjective: The growth of e-commerce has transformed last-mile logistics, with direct-to-consumer deliveries and frequent delivery failures. This has exacerbated pollution and congestion issues, negatively impacting urban life.
María Alejandra Maldonado Bonilla +2 more
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, 2023 The Last Mile explores the gaps and dichotomy between drafted policies and their implementation, and the last mile challenges which often make public services inaccessible to the poorest and most vulnerable sections of society. It provides an in-depth overview of the dynamics between communities, research and consultation and the implementation of ...
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Strategic positioning becomes increasingly important as markets mature, particularly in consumer‐facing industries that offer similar products, experiential cues, and values‐based messages. This study offers a conceptual model to examine the strategic positioning factors that motivate consumers to visit one local business over another before ...
Aaron J. Staples +2 more
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AI‐Driven Cancer Multi‐Omics: A Review From the Data Pipeline Perspective
Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.The exponential growth of cancer multi‐omics data brings opportunities and challenges for precision oncology. This review systematically examines AI's role in addressing these challenges, covering generative models, integration architectures, Explainable AI for clinical trust, clinical applications, and key directions for clinical translation.
Shilong Liu, Shunxiang Li, Kun Qian
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen +5 more
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Assessing the e-commerce last-mile logistics’ hidden risk hurdles
Cleaner Logistics and Supply ChainDue to increasing last-mile logistics complexity, the e-commerce business's last-mile delivery has emerged as an imperative issue that impedes the advancement of contemporary last-mile logistics practices.
Rohit Raj +4 more
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A comparative analysis of last mile delivery in Kenya’s online retail subsector [PDF]
The Retail and Marketing ReviewSuccess in online retailing depends on effective and efficient last mile delivery. Although online retailing in Kenya has considerable potential to ensure sustainable trade and economic growth, progress in this subsector has been inhibited by several ...
Eric Mogire, Peter Kilbourn, Rose Luke
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, 2008 The figure above (click to enlarge) is probably self-explanatory but a few words may be in order.
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