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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in farming communities is increasing the use of smartphone‐based instant messaging apps. Despite this, the reasons behind participation and the impact on farm productivity in developing countries remain unexplored.
Zafar Kurbanov +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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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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Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 In the context of historical policies that pursue economies of scale in agriculture, and of ever-declining farm incomes among small and midsized farms, rural policies of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (EU CAP) have demonstrated a shift ...
Áine Macken-Walsh
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Transforming the rural Asian economy [PDF]
Developing Asia as a whole has taken remarkable strides since the food crises of the 1960s. Improvements in food security, poverty reduction, and per capita income initiated by the Green Revolution have been substantial and lasting.
Hazell, Peter B. R., Rosegrant, Mark W.
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
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Introduction of New Food Products in China: Is There a Trend towards Healthier and Safer Products?
Social Sciences, 2019 The Chinese society has undergone an important transformation in the last 20 years, with changes in lifestyles due to increasing urbanization and rising income levels.
Montserrat Costa-Font +1 more
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THE CHANGING RURAL POLICY CONTEXT [PDF]
A characteristic of our rural policies is that we seem to treat farm policy and other rural policy as if agriculture and the rest of the rural economy and society are separate. Literature from each perspective tends to ignore the existence and context of
Smith, Stephen M.
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Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li +2 more
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ASSESSING THE RESEARCH FRAMEWORK AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY [PDF]
The economic context for rural development has changed markedly since the 1970s. While natural resource industries have continued to decline in importance as rural employers, the internationalization of markets, reorganization of industries, new ...
McGranahan, David A.
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