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Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia, John Olwande, Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert, David L. Mather, Nicole M. Mason   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Machine learning models explanations as interpretations of evidence: a theoretical framework of explainability and its implications on high-stakes biomedical decision-making. [PDF]

BMC Med Res Methodol
Rizzo M, Veneri A, Marcuzzo M, Zangari A, Albarelli A, Lucchese C, Nobile MS, Conati C.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring proxies for occupation intensity in hunter-gatherer settlement systems: A combination of ethnohistoric and archaeological data. [PDF]

PLoS One
Clark AE, Miranda GS, López-Pérez N, López-Rivera A, Luna T, Avilés A, Martynec R, Martynec S, Martínez-Tagüeña N, Pailes M.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Coagulation Pathways as Determinants of Acute Subdural Hematoma Resolution: Genetic Evidence From Human Data. [PDF]

CNS Neurosci Ther
Wu Q, Xu T, Tan B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Using aggregate geographic data to proxy individual socioeconomic status: does size matter?

American Journal of Public Health, 2001
Mah-Jabeen Soobader, F. LeClere, W. Hadden, Brooke B. Maury   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Reproducibility of Age at Menarche Gathered From Mail Questionnaires: A Report From the Life Span Study. [PDF]

J Epidemiol
Kadowaki Y, Brenner AV, Yamada M, Sugiyama H, Utada M, Misumi M, Sakata R.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Farmers' Financial Literacy—Scale Development and Linkages to Accounting Practices and Financial Outcomes

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
wiley   +1 more source