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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
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Farmers' Participation in Messenger‐Based Social Groups And Its Effects on Performance in Irrigated Areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in farming communities is increasing the use of smartphone‐based instant messaging apps. Despite this, the reasons behind participation and the impact on farm productivity in developing countries remain unexplored.
Zafar Kurbanov, Abdusame Tadjiev, Nodir Djanibekov, Ajit Govind, Akmal Akramkhanov   +4 more
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Factores de adopción de agricultura orgánica en la región de Piura 2020

Semestre Economico, 2020
La agricultura orgánica es un sistema de cultivo agrícola autónoma basada en la utilización óptima de los recursos naturales, y surge como respuesta ante la contaminación de la agricultura convencional que usa productos químicos sintéticos.
Freddy Carrasco Choque, Janet Del Rocío Sánchez Castro   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Variational Bayesian multinomial probit regression with Gaussian process priors [PDF]

, 2005
It is well known in the statistics literature that augmenting binary and polychotomous response models with Gaussian latent variables enables exact Bayesian analysis via Gibbs sampling from the parameter posterior.
Girolami, M., Rogers, S.
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Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar, Sanzidur Rahman, Giacomo Zanello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adoption of inland valley farming and rice production practices: Evidence from smallholder farmers in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
Inland valley wetlands in West African countries are considered to hold immense potential for rice-based production systems. Policies to increase rice production in inland valleys have until now not lived up to expectations.
Tesfahun Alemayehu, Edwin van der Werf
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Migración, retorno y emprendimiento en Colombia

Revista Venezolana de Gerencia, 2022
Este artículo identifica algunos factores que determinan que una persona se convierta en emprendedora cuando retorna al país, después de una estadía en el exterior.
Sebastian Castro Rojas, Johan Corrales, Edy Lorena Burbano-Vallejo, Alvaro Andres Coral -Vallejo   +3 more
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Applications of sensitivity analysis for probit stochastic network equilibrium [PDF]

, 2006
Network equilibrium models are widely used by traffic practitioners to aid them in making decisions concerning the operation and management of traffic networks.
Beckmann, Bell, Blum, Cantarella, Cascetta, Chen, Chen, Cho, Cho, Clark, Clark, Clark, Daganzo, Daganzo, David P. Watling, Davis, Fiacco, Fisk, Fisk, Frank, Friesz, Isserlis, Nash, Nguyen, Nguyen, Nielsen, Patriksson, Patriksson, Powell, Powell, Prashker, Sheffi, Sheffi, Stephen D. Clark, Suh, Suwansirikul, Tobin, Van Stackelberg, Vovsha, Wie, Yai, Yang, Ying   +42 more
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley   +1 more source