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What matters for agricultural trade? Assessing the role of trade deal provisions using machine learning

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper employs machine learning to determine which preferential trade agreement (PTA) provisions are relevant to agricultural trade patterns and the factors that may influence their adoption. Utilizing the three‐way gravity model, we apply plug‐in Lasso regularized regression to pinpoint predictive PTA provisions for agricultural trade ...
Stepan Gordeev   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Key NaCMC Properties to Optimize Electrodes and Battery Performance

open access: yesAdvanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
Sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (NaCMC) polymer properties, namely, the degree of substitution, molecular weight, and an in batteries unpublished impurity, are investigated with regard to their impact on the electrode properties. The gained knowledge then is transferred to further understand the resulting cell performance and understand key figures to ...
Noah Keim   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Recent Progress on Upgrading of Furfural and Derivatives into Green Transport Fuels and Precursors via CC Coupling Reactions

open access: yesAdvanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
This review highlights recent advancements in converting lignocellulosic biomass to fuel precursors. It emphasizes the role of FUR and 2‐methylfuran in aldol condensation and hydroxyalkylation–alkylation reactions. The article discusses their efficiency, potential applications, and emerging technologies that promise cleaner and more sustainable energy ...
Errol D. Saluta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Catalytic Approaches for CO2 Conversion to Value‐Added Products: An Overview of Life Cycle Assessment Studies

open access: yesAdvanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
The catalytic conversion of CO2 into value‐added products provides an emerging strategy for reducing carbon emissions and improving environmental performance. This review compares different Life Cycle Assessment studies to evaluate the environmental impacts of CO2 conversion, focusing on the main challenges, technical limitations, and potential ...
Anastasia Pappa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring specialty crop grower willingness to pay for genetic modification and genetic editing

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract In contrast to the widespread adoption of agricultural commodities modified using biotechnology, the adoption rate of bioengineered specialty crops by growers remains low. The use of bioengineered crops has been controversial since their introduction in the 1990s due to concerns about their potentially harmful effects to human health, the ...
Marie Abbey   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supply chain risk in grain trading: Inventories as real options for shipping grain

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Integrating trading and logistics is an important challenge in commodity trading. Trading and logistics are strategic decisions and are integral to most commodities including grain shipping by rail, in addition to other modes (barges, ocean shipping). There are substantial risks, such as the ordering and placement of rail cars.
William W. Wilson, Jesse Klebe
wiley   +1 more source

Determining the influence of belonging to a wine protected designation of origin on profitability

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract To guide consumers, wineries need credible attributes about the quality of their wines and its origin. In Spain, protected designations of origin (PDO) guarantee that the wine has been produced in a certain wine region in accordance with specific and officially regulated quality criteria thus providing elements of guarantee to the consumer ...
Jordi Moreno Gené   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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