Results 131 to 140 of about 2,300,264 (313)

Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Increase of Residential Electricity Consumption in Urban and Rural China by Province [PDF]

open access: yes
We have developed a projection model to investigate the inter-regional and intra-regional urban-rural characteristics of the current residential electricity demand in China.
Honda, Manabu   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Proposed EITC Expansion Would Increase Eligibility and Dollars for Rural and Urban “Childless” Workers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This brief uses data from the 2013 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey to examine how President Obama’s proposed expanded eligibility and higher credit values might affect tax filers in both rural and urban America ...
Carson, Jessica A.   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence Of Hypertension and It’s Correlates in Elderly Population of Coastal Karnataka

open access: yesNational Journal of Community Medicine, 2014
Background: Hypertension is becoming an important public health problem worldwide. It exhibits iceberg phenomena were unknown morbidity exceeds the known morbidity. The prevalence of hypertension is rapidly increasing in developing countries and is said
Shahul Hameed   +5 more
doaj  

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

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effects of New Cooperative Medicine Scheme coverage on health outcomes and health care in rural China [PDF]

open access: yes
health insurance, rural population, China, Health Economics and Policy,
Chu, Xueling   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Rural America Growing Again Due to Migration Gains [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
For the first six years of this decade, rural America experienced overall population loss for the first time in history. New Census Bureau estimates suggest that last year overall growth accelerated in nonmetropolitan America where 46.1 million people ...
Johnson, Kenneth M.
core   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy