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ASSESSING RURAL COMMUNITY VIABILITY AN EXPERIMENTAL MODEL [PDF]
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Eubank, Randy +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rural farm households continue to face significant risks from climate change, resulting in many of them diversifying their livelihood sources into other income‐generating activities to increase their incomes and improve food and nutrition security. In this study, we examine the drivers and impact of farm households' participation in livelihood
Mahwish Arshad, Awudu Abdulai
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines racial differences in farm succession planning using survey data from Tennessee farmers. While observed differences between White and Black farmers are small, decomposition and counterfactual analyses show that structural characteristics, particularly farm size, would predict higher succession planning among White farmers ...
Abdelaziz Lawani +2 more
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Economic Impact of Sustainability in Wine Sector: A Systematic Literature Review
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability has become a key issue in the wine sector, raising questions about its compatibility with firms' economic performance. Despite growing attention to environmental and social practices, evidence on their economic implications remains fragmented.
Valentina Di Chiara +2 more
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Chapter 11 - Police, rural policing, and community safety
, 2015 One reason this chapter is devoted to rural policing is the difference in policework and organization. More than 40 years ago, Cain (1973) highlighted the distinctivenessof rural policing, with its isolating and lonesome nature, and thedependence on one ...
Ceccato, Vania, +2 more
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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
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The Effect of Sustainability Information on Consumers' Preferences for Fungus‐Resistant Grape Wine
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The demand for sustainable food production is intensifying the need to reduce the environmental and social impacts of pesticide use in agriculture. In viticulture, where dependence on pesticides is high because grapevines are susceptible to fungal diseases, fungus‐resistant grape varieties (PIWI) offer a promising strategy to reduce chemical ...
Daniel Vecchiato +2 more
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Malaria signs, symptoms, prevention knowledge and its associated factors among rural Ethiopians
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family MedicineBackground: Malaria is a leading cause of morbidity, mortality and socio-economic burden in Ethiopia. Although the country set a goal to eradicate malaria by 2030, a resurgence has been reported recently.
Kemal A. Kuti, Sibusiso M. Zuma
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen +5 more
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The Community Divide is more Detrimental than the Plant Itself: Confrontational Stigma and Community Responses to Rural Facility Siting [PDF]
, 2017 Rural communities are changing as ex-urban residents in-migrate with differing expectations than long-time residents of the surrounding agricultural community.
Baxter, Jamie +2 more
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