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Protection Motivation Theory and Farmers' Participation in Futures Markets: Evidence From Germany

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

DEMAND FOR FEED GRAINS AND CONCENTRATES BY LIVESTOCK CATEGORY

open access: yes
Livestock feed demand is a collection of derived feed demands by various livestock categories. A structural understanding of demand for feed grains and total concentrates requires knowledge of separate feed demand relationships for each major livestock ...
Ray, Daryll E., Richardson, James W.
core   +1 more source

Do More Open Economies Export Less Diversely in Brazilian Agribusiness?

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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

Delivering Bundled Gender Sensitive Livestock Climate Information Services

open access: yes
The CGIAR Research Initiative on Livestock and Climate aimed to address livestock system climate adaptation and mitigation through five interrelated work packages. This series of Work Package Results Fact Sheets details our key outcome results.
CGIAR Research Initiative on Livestock and Climate   +1 more
core  

Robust Representation Learning for Clean Feature Discovery in Incomplete Multi‐View Clustering

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Robust feature discovery in incomplete multi‐view clustering is achieved by coupling RPCA‐based clean representation recovery with neural‐network‐assisted graph learning. The resulting RIMVC framework constructs cleaner and more discriminative graph‐structured representations from incomplete and noisy multi‐view data, improving clustering robustness ...
Ping Hu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are Pesticide Residues Found in the Oranges Produced in Sari? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences
Background and purpose: Today, ensuring food security for the inhabitants of the earth, and preserving agricultural production from destruction due to drought, pests, and diseases, seems more necessary than ever.
Narges Mazloomi   +6 more
doaj  

Dietary supplementation of Galactooligosaccharides improves growth performance and intestinal barrier function of offspring

open access: yesPorcine Health Management
This study aims to investigate the effects of maternal supplementation with galactooligosaccharides (GOS) on intestinal digestion, absorption, and barrier function of offspring.
Jichang Zheng   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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