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The Environmental and Socio-Economic Effect of Farmland Management Right Transfer in China: A Systematic Review

Land, 2022
Small and fragmented arable land is a key challenge for small-scale agricultural countries, resulting in low labor productivity, ecological damage, and inefficient land use.
Meseret Abatechanie, Baozhong Cai, Fang Shi, Yuanji Huang   +3 more
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková, Michiel van Dijk, Robert M'Barek, Hans van Meijl, Tomas Ratinger   +4 more
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What motivates food workers to adhere with WHO guidelines to combat the COVID-19? A social cognitive theory perspective

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundCOVID-19 has become a public health emergency and pandemic of global concern, and the hundreds of millions of foodborne illnesses that occur each year also wreak havoc on human lives, society and the economy.
Mingliang Wang, Shunlong Gong, Jin Tang, Zhenlin Weng, Xingtong Wu   +4 more
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, 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

Accessibility and influencing factors of leisure agriculture demonstration sites in Guangdong Province based on GWR model

Scientific Reports
As a key project of deepening rural reform, agricultural transformation and upgrading and beautiful rural construction, leisure agriculture plays an important role in promoting the coordinated development of urban and rural areas, rural revitalization ...
Zhenjie Liao, Lijuan Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

The Effect of Digital Finance on Rural Revitalization

, 2023
Digital finance is gradually becoming an important source of strength to promote rural revitalization. In order to give full play to the role of digital finance in promoting rural revitalization, based on the provincial panel data of China from 2011 to ...
Jiatong Wang, Wang, Jiatong, Niancheng Tong, Tong, Niancheng   +3 more
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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

Enhancing soil health and strawberry disease resistance: the impact of calcium cyanamide treatment on soil microbiota and physicochemical properties

Frontiers in Microbiology
IntroductionContinuous strawberry cropping often causes soil-borne diseases, with 20 calcium cyanamide being an effective soil fumigant, pig manure can often be used as soil organic fertilizer.
Ying-chun Du, Can-sheng Yuan, Yu-qi Song, Ying Yang, Qing-song Zheng, Qing-song Zheng, Qiong Hou, Di Wang, Di Wang, Lin Wang   +9 more
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How rural tourism development affects farmers’ livelihood resilience: based on comprehensive survey data of rural revitalization in China

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Many rural areas regard the tourism livelihood strategy as an essential breakthrough to overcome poverty and improve the lives of farmers. Studies have explored the income increasing effect of rural tourism on farmers’ families, but few have focused on ...
Jinlan Niu, Yuxi Zhou
semanticscholar   +1 more source

NO NĀ PUA: Exploring the feasibility of culture‐based social prescribing on firefighters' wellbeing in Hawaiʻi

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Firefighters face an array of stressors due to the demands of their occupation, leading to a high prevalence of mental health challenges. Social prescribing represents a novel approach to healthcare that emphasizes a holistic view of health and wellbeing.
Janice Ikeda, Margary Martin, Misty Pacheco   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source