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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang, Lena Kuhn, Hang Xiong, Zhanli Sun, Thomas Glauben   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
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Habitat use and diel activity of insectivorous bats across land‐cover types on an Afrotropical oceanic island

Conservation Science and Practice
Tropical island biodiversity is declining at alarming rates. Yet, understanding how species are coping with such disturbance remains limited for Afrotropical islands.
Ana Filipa Palmeirim, Ana Catarina Araújo‐Fernandes, Ana Sofia Castro‐Fernandes, Patrícia Guedes, Yodiney dosSantos, João C. Alves, Vanessa Mata, Natalie Yoh, Ricardo Rocha   +8 more
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Second-growth forests of the Mexican tropics are reservoirs of timber species similar to old-growth forest: Perspectives for sustainable forest management

Trees, Forests and People
Second-growth forests represent the largest area of forest in southern Mexico and can provide relevant information on how their structural attributes in are linked to anthropogenic factors and for their forest management. However, a knowledge gap remains
Ramiro Puc-Kauil, Gregorio Ángeles-Pérez, Francisca O. Plascencia-Escalante, Leonardo Beltrán-Rodríguez, Marcos A. Briceño-Méndez, Facundo Sánchez-Gutiérrez, Francisco Montoya-Reyes, Faustino Ruiz-Aquino, Xavier García-Cuevas, Juan Ortiz   +9 more
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Invasive earthworms in Indiana old-growth and second-growth forests

, 2011
Temperate and boreal forests in Canada and the northeastern United States are susceptible to attacks by multiple invasive species, including European earthworms (family Lumbricidae) and plant species such as garlic mustard ( Alliaria petiolata [M.
Quackenbush, Patricia Mary
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Determinants of local food producer participation in state‐sponsored marketing programs: Evidence from Missouri

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines producer participation choices considering a variety of potential benefits linked to state‐sponsored marketing programs, using a real choice dataset of farmers in Missouri. Multinomial logit models are employed to predict determinants of farmer enrollment in three tiers of the Missouri Grown local food marketing program ...
Lan Tran, Ye Su, Laura McCann
wiley   +1 more source

Structural dynamics of deciduous mixed stands in the Hyrcanian forests, northern Iran

Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca
Forest structure as an effect of forest dynamics can be used to characterize biophysical processes, biodiversity and ecosystem functions. This study examines the structural components of old-growth forest stands located in the Caspian forests, north of ...
Mohsen Javanmiri POUR, Vahid ETEMAD, Ion Catalin PETRITAN   +2 more
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On the option value of old-growth forest

Ecological Economics, 1997
Abstract The option value of an old-growth forest is determined when the net value of timber is known and non-timber amenity value evolves according to geometric Brownian motion. The model permits the derivation of a critical barrier or boundary on amenity value, denoted A*. Specifically, A* is the minimum amenity value necessary to justify continued
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Long-term dynamics in mixed Fagus sylvatica - Abies alba Pecka old-growth forest in Dinaric Alps of Slovenia.

reservedSenza l’attività umana, l’Europa sarebbe coperta da foreste primarie, ma, oggi questo tipo di foresta copre appena il 3% della superficie forestale europea, e solo 1/3 è foresta vetusta.
FIORANI, FRANCESCO
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How Does Cultural and Colonial Heritage Affect Optimal Branding Strategies? Evidence From the Rice Sector in Senegal

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source