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Is Precision Agriculture Technology Adoption Persistently Overestimated?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Precision agriculture is sometimes assumed to diffuse steadily over time, and industry planning frequently extrapolates early adoption trends forward. This study evaluates the accuracy of such expectations by comparing agricultural input dealers' forecasts of future service offerings with the actual levels of offerings that dealerships ...
Trey Malone, Chad Fiechter, Zanliang Meng, James Lowenberg‐DeBoer, Bruce Erickson, Jay Akridge   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Party Dealignment, Multiconflictual Party Systems and Transformation of Cleavages:Theoretical Considerations

Teoria Polityki
Political partisanship in Europe has undergone a significant and multifaceted transformation in recent decades.
Ladislav Cabada, Jakub Charvát
doaj   +1 more source

Introducing new multilevel datasets: Party systems at the district and national levels

Research & Politics, 2018
For decades, datasets on national-level elections have contributed to knowledge on what shapes national party systems. More recently, datasets on elections at the district level have advanced research on subnational party competition.
Cory L. Struthers, Yuhui Li, Matthew S. Shugart   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The determinants of Party System Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

Otoritas: Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan, 2018
This article examines what socio-economic factors are conducive to changes in the patterns of inter-party competition in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Riccardo Pelizzo
doaj   +1 more source

Toward an integrated clinical, molecular and serological classification of inflammatory bowel disease: report of a Working Party of the 2005 Montreal World Congress of Gastroenterology.

Canadian journal of gastroenterology = Journal canadien de gastroenterologie, 2005
The discovery of a series of genetic and serological markers associated with disease susceptibility and phenotype in inflammatory bowel disease has led to the prospect of an integrated classification system involving clinical, serological and genetic ...
M. Silverberg, J. Satsangi, T. Ahmad, I. Arnott, C. Bernstein, S. Brant, R. Caprilli, J. Colombel, C. Gasche, K. Geboes, D. Jewell, Amir S Karban, E. Loftus, A. Peña, R. Riddell, D. Sachar, S. Schreiber, A. Steinhart, S. Targan, S. Vermeire, B. Warren   +20 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

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, Alba J. Collart, Matthew G. Interis, Esther Mmenaa Agyemang‐Duah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Not All Agreements Are Equal: Heterogeneous Effects of RTAs on Latin American Agri‐Food Exports, 1990–2019

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the final decade of the 20th century, Latin American countries have increasingly regarded the signing of regional trade agreements (RTAs) as a promising strategy for expanding their exports. Within this context, the main objective of this study is to assess the impact of RTAs on agri‐food exports in Latin America over the period 1990 ...
María‐Isabel Ayuda, Ignacio Belloc, Vicente Pinilla   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The 2022 Elections in Bulgaria: Another Dead-end Street

Contemporary Southeastern Europe, 2023
Zankina, Emilia
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying Consumer Tradeoffs Across Firm‐Level Strategic Positioning Dimensions: Evidence from US Craft Beer Consumers

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, Trey Malone, J. Robert Sirrine   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China

Agribusiness, 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