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Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões, Cassiano Bragagnolo, Humberto Francisco Silva Spolador   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Weather Attention in Online Discourse and Price Uncertainty in Agricultural Futures Markets

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Weather is a central determinant of production risk in agricultural markets, but markets respond not only to weather conditions themselves, but also to how those conditions are noticed, framed, and interpreted in public discourse. In this setting, real‐time online weather discussions may shape price uncertainty by influencing how market ...
Mario A. Ortez, Olga Isengildina Massa, Michael Liam Smith, Nicole Olynk Widmar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Crop Forecast Similarity, Government Policies, and Macroeconomic Conditions Affect WASDE Forecast Accuracy

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) play a central role in how agricultural commodity markets process information about supply, demand, and prices. This study examines how global and domestic shocks, as well as policy interventions, are reflected in the similarity of WASDE ...
Zhining Sun, Rabail Chandio, Ani L. Katchova   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Cross‐Sectoral AI Integration Is Essential to Tackling Food Waste and Food Insecurity: A Roadmap for Developing Resilient Food Systems

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
As food insecurity and global food demands surge, artificial intelligence (AI)‐based technologies offer promising opportunities to reduce food loss and waste. In this perspective, current AI adoption across the food supply chain is assessed using various academic, industry, and policy sources.
Akansha Prasad, Hannah Mann, Lubna Najm, Shadman Khan, Carlos D. M. Filipe, Tohid F. Didar   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic foundations of political power

ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICAL POWER Economic foundations of political power (-
Bartlett, Randall
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Dimensions of the AI Divide: Digital Inequality and Psychological Consequences

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational component of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Yet, the ways in which AI reshapes patterns of exclusion beyond questions of access and technical capability remain insufficiently theorized.
Christos Papaioannou
wiley   +1 more source

Vernacular Futurism: How Persian Language Users Imagine AI

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public discourse about artificial intelligence increasingly unfolds through compressed forecasts, moral warnings, and everyday speculation circulating at platform speed. This study examines how Persian language users on X construct and contest AI futures, analyzing a corpus of 4741 posts collected between January 2023 and December 2025, with ...
Arthur Asa Berger, Ehsan Shahghasemi
wiley   +1 more source

Playing in the Dark: Invisible Chess as a Laboratory for Strategic AI

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
This paper shows that strategic AI evaluated on perfect‐information benchmarks can be brittle in real adversarial settings. By using invisible chess as a benchmark for hidden state and deception, it argues for stricter testing, human oversight, and more cautious governance of high‐stakes AI systems.
Paolo Ciancarini
wiley   +1 more source

AI‐Based Immortality: The Ethical Advantage of the Aretai Approach

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The convergence of artificial intelligence, digital identity technologies, and biogerontological ambitions has produced a novel set of philosophical problems that have not yet been adequately addressed within mainstream bioethical discourse. Digital life extension—encompassing AI‐generated avatars, neural data preservation, mind uploading, and
Mirko Daniel Garasic
wiley   +1 more source