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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
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Rural poverty and labour force participation: Evidence from Indonesia's Village fund program. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Rammohan A, Tohari A.
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A Hybrid Transfer Learning Framework for Brain Tumor Diagnosis
Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.A novel hybrid transfer learning approach for brain tumor classification achieves 99.47% accuracy using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images. By combining image preprocessing, ensemble deep learning, and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) techniques like gradient‐weighted class activation mapping and SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP), the ...
Sadia Islam Tonni +11 more
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THE RURAL POPULATION AND THE POVERTY THREAT
Ekonomika Poljoprivrede (1979)In many European countries, there is an increasing possibility of poverty threat. This paper undertakes a comprehensive investigation into the determinants of rural poverty in 27 European countries, utilizing Eurostat data from 2010 to 2020.
Jiri Alina +3 more
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New evidence on the rural poverty and energy choice relationship. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 Di Falco S, Lynam G.
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen +5 more
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Landlessness and Rural Poverty in Pakistan [PDF]
Although reducing rural poverty has been the key agenda of economic reforms in Pakistan, the rural poverty continued to rise during the 1990s. The causes of rural poverty are complex and multidimensional.
Talat Anwar +2 more
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High-resolution rural poverty mapping in Pakistan with ensemble deep learning. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Agyemang FSK, Memon R, Wolf LJ, Fox S.
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Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich +4 more
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Irrigation, poverty and inequality in rural China [PDF]
This paper examines the impact of irrigation on rural incomes, poverty and the income distribution in rural China. The relationship between irrigation and income is examined using descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis. A simulation approach is
Rozelle, Scott +4 more
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