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Advances in AgricultureThis review explores the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in African agriculture. At the core of this review lies the questions: How is AI being applied in African agriculture and what are the challenges and opportunities associated with its ...
Toritseju Begho +2 more
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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
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The political economy of rural development in China: reflections on current rural policy [PDF]
The paper examines some of the main political economy dynamics of the policy initiatives on rural development that have been taken since 2003, and provides an overview of the main issues that they are addressing.
Zhang, Heather Xiaoquan +1 more
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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 +3 more
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Ethiopia: Diversifying the Rural Economy. An Assessment of the Investment Climate for Small and Informal Enterprises [PDF]
The Rural Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) is one of the first studies of small and informal firms in rural and semi-urban areas in Ethiopia. Little was known about the nature and size distribution of small, rural firms, the constraints they face when
Loening, Josef, Mikael Imru, Laketch
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Ecosystems and PeopleEcological democracy has drawn upon relational approaches through Indigenous thinking and pluriversal politics to re-imagine democratic design and practice.
Seb O’Connor
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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 +2 more
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Semi-subsistence farm households and the non-farm rural economy - Perspectives and challenges [PDF]
Semi-subsistence farm households (SFHs) have persevered in Central and Southeastern Europe. An outlook on future perspectives of SFHs asks for reliable information on the phenomenon of SFHs and the impact of policy measures on their development options: (
Curtiss, Jarmila +4 more
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Determinants of millet and sorghum yield with fertilizer microdosing technique
Revue Marocaine des Sciences Agronomiques et Vétérinaires, 2019 The fertilizer microdosing technique was developed by the International Crops Research Institute for the Tropics and Semi-arid Regions (ICRISAT), in partnership with national research institutes in the Sahel, to resolve the productivity constraints of ...
Penda SISSOKO, Philippe LEBAILLY
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Scenario Method of Strategic Planning and Forecasting the Development of the Rural Economy in Agricultural Complex. [PDF]
Scientifica (Cairo), 2020 Lukyanova MT +4 more
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