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Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang, Edward C. Jaenicke, Martina Vecchi, Sheng‐Jang Sheu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli, Francesco Pagliacci, Paola Gatto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A STUDY OF SOME SOCIAL VARIABLES THAT DETERMINE WHEAT CROP PRODUCTION IN BEHIRA AND ASSUIT GOVERNORATES . [PDF]

Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2011
H. Farag, S. Nasrat
doaj   +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

Educated for the region? A register-based sequence analysis modelling medical doctors’ career trajectories

Research in Health Services & Regions
Recruiting and retaining medical doctors in rural and primary healthcare remains a global challenge. Norway and its Northern region are no exception.
Marie Hella Lindberg, Birgit Abelsen
doaj   +1 more source

Challenges for video communications in remote and rural communities

2008 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, 2008
For Canadapsilas remote and rural communities, video communications provide a vital lifeline. This study explores the challenges for video communications in remote and rural First Nation (Indigenous) communities. Central to our analysis are social and technical issues as well as the ICT experiences of community-based organizations and community members.
O'Donnell, Susan, Perley, Sonja, Simms, Deanne   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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

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

Rural Communities [PDF]

Scope: Contemporary Research Topics (Health & Wellbeing), 2019
Jan L. Flora, Cornelia Flora, Elizabeth Houdek, Mark Weinberg   +3 more
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Schedule of factors influencing access to psychiatric treatment in persons with schizophrenia: Validity and pilot testing

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2013
Background : A substantial proportion of patients with severe mental disorders remain untreated in India. Qualitative research has highlighted the complex interplay of multiple factors that preclude schizophrenia patients in rural Indian settings from ...
K Shanivaram Reddy, Jagadisha Thirthalli, C Naveen Kumar, N Krishna Reddy, N R Renukadevi, Vikram Singh Rawat, Jayashree Ramkrishna, Bangalore N Gangadhar   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source