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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

Reversing the great degradation of nature by reducing factors related to cropland expansion. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Polasky S   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Estimation of Import Demand Functions of Two Key Food and Feed Commodities (Corn and Soybean) for India

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The derived demand for the increased demand for meat and dairy products is clearly observed in the fast‐paced growth of the Indian feed industry and its increased demand for agricultural commodities (e.g., corn, soybean, rice, wheat, broken rice, millet, etc.) as feed ingredients.
Dwiti Baruah Thapa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food Security Strategy, Macroeconomic Dynamics and Food Import Sensitivity in Qatar

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Qatar has limited agricultural land and water resources and therefore remains highly dependent on food imports. This structural dependency makes Qatar vulnerable to external shocks such as the recent Gulf crisis, threatening food security and disrupting global supply chains. In response to previous shocks, Qatar started implementing a National
Hansini Ranjan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Multidimensional Perspective on Network Conditions in Telesurgery

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A multidimensional framework systematically evaluates how combined network impairments influence telesurgical performance. By jointly analyzing latency, jitter, bandwidth, and packet loss, the proposed methodology identifies relevant network condition parameters and their interactions, supporting the design of reliable and safe telesurgical systems ...
Florian Heemeyer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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