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Enhancing the resilience of vulnerable social-ecological systems: pathways toward sustainable oases in southeastern Tunisia

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Oases have long been a source of life for farming communities in regions characterized by water scarcity. Adopting “resilience thinking” to analyze the capacity of oases to continue providing goods and services despite their vulnerability means ...
Hichem Charieg, Hichem Charieg, Mohamed Zied Dhraief, Inès Gharbi, Abdallah Ben Saad   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

THE NEW FEDERALISM: HOW WOULD IT AFFECT MINNESOTA? [PDF]

Community/Rural/Urban Development, Political Economy,
Maki, Wilbur R., Nelson, Glenn L., Stinson, Thomas F., Waldo, Arley D., Yoho, Carole B.   +4 more
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Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar, Sanzidur Rahman, Giacomo Zanello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A review of the pathway to reducing youth unemployment in Sub Saharan Africa through agriculture and agribusiness

Discover Global Society
Youth unemployment remains a challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa. There are suggestions that agriculture, with the right interventions, holds the potential to serve as a transformative sector for creating sustainable and productive jobs.
Toritseju Begho, Tare Philip Daubry
doaj   +1 more source

A labeled image dataset of common tomato diseases for classification and object detectionMendeley Data

Data in Brief
Computer vision has emerged as a critical enabler of sustainable production in protected agriculture by offering efficient and non-invasive crop disease diagnosis.
Yongbo Liu, Yuhang Zhu, Liang Hu, Yao Huo, Wenbo Gao, Rongping Hu, Peng He   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Recession catches rural America [PDF]

As the recession intensified in 2008, rural economies held firm. Through the first half of the year, strong commodity prices supported robust farm incomes and contributed to relatively stronger gains on Main Street.
Jason Henderson, Maria Akers
core  

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

Incidental mood affects decision under uncertainty: findings from an experiment with Nigerian farmers

Discover Agriculture
Small farmers in low-and-middle-income countries are disproportionately affected by uncertainties under which they have to make decisions. However, decision-making may not be purely rational as it could be influenced by affective or emotional states ...
Toritseju Begho, Tare Philip Daubry
doaj   +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

The Facilitating Act Framework: A new insight into cultural ecosystem services through investigating women, wild swimming and community

People and Nature
We present the Facilitating Act Framework (FAF) as a way to challenge more linear ways of thinking about cultural ecosystem services. The framework moves towards more relational and participant‐led processes to provide insights on how values emerge ...
Lucy Barnard, Seb O'Connor, Klaus Glenk
doaj   +1 more source