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Efficiency and Technology Gap in European Apple Production—A Metafrontier Model for Germany, Italy, and Poland

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
wiley   +1 more source

Worse Function and Symptoms Among the Most Rural Patients With Advanced Cancer: A Cross-Sectional Analysis. [PDF]

Cancer Med
Schmitz KH, Baker S, Ahmed M, Celebre R, Patterson CG, Smith C, Werts-Pelter SJ, Stout N, Moss J, Calo WA, Sobolewski M, Doerksen SE.   +11 more
europepmc   +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

Urban-rural structuring of mosquito assemblages in Moyen-Ogooué, Gabon reveals widespread dominance of Aedes albopictus. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Manouana GP, Hellhammer F, Djida Y, Ambinintsoa MF, Maloum MN, Boussougou-Sambe TS, Ngossanga B, Zinsou JF, Kremsner PG, Bi Zahouli JZ, Borrmann S, Becker SC, Adegnika AA.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

Development of an Illustrative Conceptual Model to Promote Rural Research Capacity Building Efforts by Embedded Researchers. [PDF]

Aust J Rural Health
Reid CJ, Glenister K, Wallace W, Glanville R, Keast J, Aberdeen L, Bourke L.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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

Signals of inequity in the care pathway: rural lab diagnosis, systemic therapy delays, and RAS mutation differences in metastatic colorectal cancer. [PDF]

Front Oncol
Ismail A, Dahanayake A, Ahmed S, Pillay Y, Khatib A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe, Juo‐Han Tsay, Sarah A. Low   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Variations in Sexual Size Dimorphism in Two Anurans Along an Urbanization Gradient in Shanghai: Assessment of Rensch's Rule. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Li B, Liu N, Zhong S, Wang T, Zheng R, Song Q, Wang Z, Zhang W.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source