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Agritourism as A Pathway to Women's Empowerment: Insights From Rural Albania

European Countryside
Tourism literature has emphasized the potential of agritourism in empowering women in rural areas. Recently, there has been a rise in agritourism enterprises managed by women in rural regions of Albania.
Sulaj Anila, Themelko Henrieta
doaj   +1 more source

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

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

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

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

Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török, Gréta Maró, Zsófia Jámbor, Zalán Márk Maró, Barbara Tocco, Péter Balogh, Péter Czine   +6 more
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

An Analysis of the Circular Economy Performance of the Romanian Agri-Food System

Agriculture
The circular economy represents one of the key pillars of European Union strategies aiming to decouple growth from resource utilization. The circular economy has emerged as a key flagship for European policies related to sustainable agri-food systems ...
Steliana Rodino, Rodica Chetroiu, Vili Dragomir   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source