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Exploring barriers to utilizing local agricultural products in the catering industry

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Both the proportion and expenditure of dining out and takeaway in Taiwan have been increasing year by year. This study investigates the factors influencing the catering service providers (CSPs) procurement of domestically produced or imported food materials.
Wan‐Yu Liu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

PICS or poly sack: Traders’ willingness to invest in storage protection technologies

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture and Food Research, 2023
This study applies a simple financial model to compare the profitability of selected grain storage protection technologies (PICS and Poly sacks) in Ghana.
Edward Martey   +3 more
doaj  

Contrastive Pretraining for Visual Concept Explanations of Socioeconomic Outcomes [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
Predicting socioeconomic indicators from satellite imagery with deep learning has become an increasingly popular research direction. Post-hoc concept-based explanations can be an important step towards broader adoption of these models in policy-making as they enable the interpretation of socioeconomic outcomes based on visual concepts that are ...
arxiv  

Environmental exposures, socioeconomics, disparities, and the kidneys.

open access: yesAdvances in Chronic Kidney Disease, 2015
Kidney disease disproportionately affects racial and ethnic minority populations, the poor, and the socially disadvantaged. The excess risk of kidney disease among minority and disadvantaged populations can only be partially explained by an excess of ...
S. Said, G. Hernandez
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Beyond subsistence? The role of rural cooperatives in driving smallholder commercialization in Ethiopia

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract The transition from subsistence to market‐oriented agriculture holds the potential to boost rural economic progress and improve the well‐being of the rural poor in developing countries. Despite this potential, there is limited understanding of the key drivers for smallholder commercialization. In this study, we utilize comprehensive three‐wave
Abebayehu Girma Geffersa   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evacuation patterns and socioeconomic stratification in the context of wildfires in Chile [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
Climate change is altering the frequency and intensity of wildfires, leading to increased evacuation events that disrupt human mobility and socioeconomic structures. These disruptions affect access to resources, employment, and housing, amplifying existing vulnerabilities within communities. Understanding the interplay between climate change, wildfires,
arxiv  

Socioeconomics of long-term glaucoma therapy in India

open access: yesIndian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2015
Purpose: To determine the socioeconomic impact of long-term glaucoma therapy. Materials and Methods: One hundred and fifty consecutive glaucoma patients on medical therapy, following up at our glaucoma service for at least 6 months were recruited.
B. Nayak   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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