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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
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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

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

Models for Ordered Categorical Variables: An Application [PDF]

Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences
Ordered logit and ordered probit models, commonly used ordered categorical variable models, are used when the dependent variable is categorical and ordered.
Öznur İşçi Güneri, Burcu Durmuş , Aynur İncekırık   +2 more
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Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Türkiye’de Hanehalkı Tasarruf Davranışının Analizi

İzmir İktisat Dergisi, 2019
Türkiye gibi gelişmekte olan ülkelerde hanehalkı tasarrufları, ülke ekonomileri ve refahı için belirleyici niteliktedir. Bu çalışmada TÜİK tarafından yayımlanan 2002-2016 yılları arasında Hanehalkı Bütçe Anketi mikro veri setleri kullanılarak, Türkiye’de
Özlem AYVAZ KIZILGÖL, Evren İPEK
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Smallholder cattle farmers’ perceptions, adoption potential, and utilization of trees and shrubs as livestock feeds in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2023
The sustainability of the livestock sector is negatively affected by insufficient quality and quantity of feeds. The effects of population growth and climate change further exacerbate the availability of feeds.
Didier Kichochi Barwani, Catherine Nyambune Maindi, Samy Bashizi Bacigale, Dieudonné Musale Katunga, Mathew Gitau Gicheha, Isaac Maina Osuga   +5 more
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimation and Statistical Test in Bivariate Binary Probit Model

Jurnal Ilmu Dasar, 2012
One of the models that can be used to analyze two binary response variables data is bivariate binary probit model. This paper tried to estimate the parameters of bivariate binary probit model using Maximum Likelihood Estimationmethod, whereastoget the ...
Vita Ratnasari, Purhadi Purhadi, Ismaini Ismaini, Suhartono Suhartono   +3 more
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Factors affecting urban households’ participation in home gardens: the case of Mekelle City, Tigray Region, Ethiopia

European Journal of Horticultural Science
Home gardening is a means of food production and for enhancing household food security. The people of Tigray used home gardens as a means of survival during the war and siege, particularly in the urban areas. However, there is a lack of empirical studies
Aregawi Beyene, Azeb Gebreegziabher, Zenebe Abraha, Tsahaynesh Hagos, Yohansu Girmay   +4 more
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