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Technological Innovations for Smallholder Farmers in Ghana [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This chapter explores which community-based technologies have the greatest potential for reducing poverty and vulnerability among many smallholder farmers in Ghana. To this end, the stochastic dominance test was applied to rank outcomes from the different technologies used by the smallholder farmers in the study area.
Samuel Asuming-Brempong   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Heat Stress in Quail: Impacts on Health and Productivity, and Mitigation Strategies

open access: yesAnimal Research and One Health, EarlyView.
Heat stress disrupts physiological homeostasis in quail, inducing oxidative stress, immune dysregulation, and metabolic imbalance, which impair growth, reproduction, product quality, and welfare. Integrating nutritional, environmental, and genetic–epigenetic strategies enhances thermotolerance, sustains productivity, and supports climate‐smart quail ...
T. A. Eletu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Debunking the Myth: A Dive Into the Role of Relational Capital in Sustainable Food Production Systems

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The shift towards sustainable food production is essential to address the urgent dual challenges of climate change and population growth, with agricultural cooperatives playing a vital role in this transformation. However, many cooperatives struggle to deliver the expected value to their members.
Ismail Badraoui   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How does credit guarantee promote the organized participation of smallholder farmers in agricultural production outsourcing?

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
The participation of smallholder farmers in agricultural production outsourcing through organizational means is of significant importance for enhancing agricultural production capacity and promoting agricultural modernization.
Mei Qiao, Jing Wang, Bowen Wang
doaj   +1 more source

Mineral fertilizer use in land-scarce conditions: Case of Rwanda

open access: yesOpen Agriculture, 2020
This study was undertaken to investigate the use of mineral fertilizer by smallholder farmers in order to understand the set of factors influencing the decisions of smallholder farmers to use fertilizers in land-scarce conditions.
Mugabo Josaphat Rusisiro   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cultivating Circularity: Harnessing Industry 4.0 and Stakeholder Engagement for a Sustainable Agrifood Future in Brazil

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyzed Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technology applications in agribusiness and the role of strategic stakeholders, engagement methods, and other critical aspects data sharing, confidentiality, integrity, decision‐making, and sector‐specific requirements in promoting circularity.
Simone Sehnem   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Access to Finance for Smallholder Farmers

open access: yes, 2014
The percentage of smallholders with access to finance is equally difficult to quantify. According to estimates, even promising approaches to expanding smallholder lending, such as value chain finance, are reaching fewer than 10 percent of smallholders, primarily those in well-established value chains dedicated to higher value cash crops.
openaire   +2 more sources

Past and Future of Sustainability Indicator Research in Agribusiness: A Bibliometric and Forecasting Analysis

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study offers a forward‐looking assessment of sustainability indicator research in agribusiness by integrating bibliometric mapping with ARIMA‐based forecasting. Analysing 403 Scopus‐indexed articles, bibliographic‐coupling analysis identifies three contemporary thematic domains: Techno‐Managerial Sustainability, Systemic and ...
Marcelo Kratz Mendes   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Dynamics of Community Development, Product Responsibility and Environmental Management Teams for Improving Emissions Performance

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates whether, under what conditions, and how community development—conceived as a form of engagement with secondary stakeholders—affects firms' emissions performance. Specifically, we examine the moderating role of Environmental Management Teams (EMTs) and the mediating role of product responsibility capability.
Misagh Tasavori   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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