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Volatility analysis and forecasting of vegetable prices using an ARMA‐GARCH model: An application of the CF filter and seasonal adjustment method to Korean green onions

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract The vegetable market experiences significant price fluctuations due to the complex interplay of trend, cyclical, seasonal, and irregular factors. This study takes Korean green onions as an example and employs the Christiano–Fitzgerald filter and the CensusX‐13 seasonal adjustment methods to decompose its price into four components: trend ...
Yiyang Qiao, Byeong‐il Ahn
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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
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Rainwater Harvesting Potential for Domestic Water Supply in Edo State [PDF]

In the face of increasing scarcity of water resources, there is a need for communities to undertake audits of their current rainwater harvesting potential as a practical and promising alternative solution for water shortage.
Emmanuel Ege, S. I. Oni
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Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah, Habtamu Alem, Abdulai Adams, Tomáš Ratinger, Miroslava Bavorová   +4 more
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Upcycling Spent Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery Into Fe‐CN3P Single Atom Catalyst for Environmental Remediation

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Electrochemical (EC) advanced oxidation enables near‐complete lithium and iron recovery from spent lithium iron phosphate batteries, while simultaneously transforming leach residues into a high‐performance P, N‐doped single‐atom Fe catalyst. The reconstructed Fe–CN3P catalyst exhibits exceptional peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation and rapid bisphenol A
Xianhui Ke, Kun Qian, Xiaoning Li, Xinyu Zheng, Zhongyong Yuan, Tianyi Ma, Wei Jin   +6 more
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Regional Differences in U.S. Consumer Preferences for Native Woody Shrubs With Varying Aesthetic Characteristics

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native plants offer a variety of aesthetic (e.g., fall colour, fruit, flowers) and functional benefits (e.g., pollinator friendly, wildlife friendly, water management). How these benefits influence consumer choice and perceived value of native versus introduced plants is not well understood.
Alicia Rihn, Ariana P. Torres, Sue Barton, Bridget K. Behe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of a rainwater harvesting model for broiler farms

Revista UIS Ingenierías, 2020
The access to water is critical in agricultural and livestock production. In the dry season, the water supply systems are under stress and have placed the region of La Mesa de Los Santos (Santander-Colombia) as susceptible to economic impacts due to ...
Isnardo Arenas-Navarro, Efrén David Montes, Sofía Margarita Serrano-Pinilla, Diego Andres Rueda-Ordoñez   +3 more
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Enhancing food and livelihood security in the context of the food and financial crisis: challenges and opportunities for small scale rainwater harvesting and conservation [PDF]

The world recently experienced the food and financial crisis. The food crisis was an indicator of the challenges towards sufficiently feeding an increasing world population.
Baiphethi, Mompati N., Kundhlande, Godfrey, Ralehlolo, N.G., Viljoen, Machiel F.   +3 more
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Smart Bioinspired Material‐Based Actuators: Current Challenges and Prospects

Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
This work gathers, in a review style, an extensive and comprehensive literature overview on the development of autonomous actuators based on synthetic materials, bringing together valuable knowledge from several studies. Furthermore, the article identifies the fundamental principles of actuation mechanisms and defines key parameters to address the size
Alejandro Palacios, Léon Chiriatti, Simon Poppinga, Thomas Speck, Vincent Le Houérou   +4 more
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VIABILITY OF PRECIPITATION FREQUENCY USE FOR RESERVOIR SIZING IN CONDOMINIUMS

Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering, 2010
The increase of house condominiums in the Brazilian cities is gradually increasing due to problems concerning traffic tie-up, air pollution level, amongst others.
Isabelle Yruska de Lucena Gomes Braga, Celso Augusto Guimarães Santos   +1 more
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