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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

Lethal plague outbreaks in Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago. [PDF]

Nature
Macleod R, Seersholm FV, De Sanctis B, Lieverse A, Timpson A, Schulting R, Stenderup JT, Gaunitz C, Vinner L, Goriunova OI, Bazaliiskii VI, Vasilyev SV, Jessup E, Wang Y, Ramsey CB, Thomas MG, Corbett-Detig R, Iversen AKN, Weber AW, Sikora M, Willerslev E.   +20 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Livelihood Diversification as an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change and Household Food Security of Livestock Holders in Pakistan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rural farm households continue to face significant risks from climate change, resulting in many of them diversifying their livelihood sources into other income‐generating activities to increase their incomes and improve food and nutrition security. In this study, we examine the drivers and impact of farm households' participation in livelihood
Mahwish Arshad, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Sylvatic Plague [PDF]

American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health, 1938
openaire   +4 more sources

Economic Impact of Sustainability in Wine Sector: A Systematic Literature Review

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability has become a key issue in the wine sector, raising questions about its compatibility with firms' economic performance. Despite growing attention to environmental and social practices, evidence on their economic implications remains fragmented.
Valentina Di Chiara, Eugenio Pomarici, Leonardo Cei   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quarantine as filter: a conceptual framework from early modern Venice. [PDF]

Evol Med Public Health
Vianello A, Tykot RH, Adapa SR, Ferreira GC, O'Corry-Crowe G, Jiang RHY.   +5 more
europepmc   +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

Evolutionary trends of plague research from 2016 to 2025: A bibliometric analysis. [PDF]

PLoS Negl Trop Dis
Niu Y, Zhang Y, Zhou S, Liu G, Chen Y, Yuan Y, Du G, Liu J.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Forward: Health, plague and society in early modern Malta

The culmination of a lifetime's scholarship into the history of Maltese society, Carmel Cassar takes us into world dominated dominated by "bad airs", overeating by a few and undernourishment for the many, smallpox, syphilis and, above all ...
David Gentilcore
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The Effect of Sustainability Information on Consumers' Preferences for Fungus‐Resistant Grape Wine

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The demand for sustainable food production is intensifying the need to reduce the environmental and social impacts of pesticide use in agriculture. In viticulture, where dependence on pesticides is high because grapevines are susceptible to fungal diseases, fungus‐resistant grape varieties (PIWI) offer a promising strategy to reduce chemical ...
Daniel Vecchiato, Andrea Dominici, Fabio Boncinelli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source