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Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li, Vanessa Ormeño‐Candelario, Xueli Chen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability Strategies in the Cocoa‐Chocolate Value Chain: An Analysis Using Stakeholder Theory, Global Value Chain Theory, and Resource Dependence Theory

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner, Luigi Orsi, Alessandro Olper, Stefanella Stranieri   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic electronic modulation of single-atom Fe sites with p-block metal coordination enables highly selective generation of FeIV = O in Fenton-like reactions

Nature Communications
High-valent iron-oxo species (FeIV=O) have garnered increasing attention for water purification, while the selective generation of FeIV = O in Fenton-like reactions still lacks an effective control protocol at the atomic level.
Zhendong Zhao, Huiwang Dai, Tiantian Nie, Tong Hu, Wenjun Zhou, Ming Zhang, Jiang Xu, Daohui Lin, Lizhong Zhu   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Farmers’ Protests in Germany: Media Coverage and Types of Bias

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The German farmers’ protests of 2024 sparked widespread media coverage and public debate. Yet, media coverage was not always positive, reflecting the media's attention‐seeking and selective focus. Occurrences of farmers blocking media outlets reflected distrust in how their concerns were portrayed.
Felix Schlichte, Doris Läpple
wiley   +1 more source

Cost‐Benefit Analysis of the European Union Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in Fertilizer Trade

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), launching 2026, will charge EU importers for embedded carbon emissions, aiming to reduce emissions but raising import costs. Shifts in demand following implementation may reduce carbon emissions, but importers will bear the cost of increased prices.
Natalie Crisci, Md Deluair Hossen, Andrew Muhammad, Seong‐Hoon Cho   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization and ecological risk assessment of toxic metals in mangrove sediments near Langen Village in Tieshan Bay of Beibu Gulf, China

Open Chemistry
A series of coastal development initiatives have been recently implemented in the East Harbor area of Tieshan Harbor, Guangxi Province, China. However, the ecological impacts of these reclamation activities on toxic metal pollution levels in shallow ...
Lu Qiongqiong, Duan Gaoqi, Liu Fengping, Zheng Yinan, Chang Yuhu, Ding Zhenyu, Zhang Yankun, Hu Hongxia   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Phytoremediation potential depends on the degree of soil pollution: a case study in an urban brownfield. [PDF]

Environ Sci Pollut Res Int, 2023
Fernández-Braña A, Salgado L, Gallego JLR, Afif E, Boente C, Forján R.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Impact of Soil Pollution on Melliferous Plants. [PDF]

Toxics, 2022
Bărbulescu A, Barbeș L, Dumitriu CŞ.
europepmc   +1 more source

Nanomaterials as Soil Pollutants

, 2018
This chapter covers how engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) may enter soils, how they behave in soils, the exposure dynamics this presents to soil organisms, and resulting issues for uptake and food-chain transfer. Special attention is given to summarizing the main issues and the current state of the art for the most important elements of how ENMs act as ...
Loureiro, Susana, Tourinho, Paula S., Cornelis, Geert, Van Den Brink, Nico W., Díez-Ortiz, Maria, Vázquez-Campos, Socorro, Pomar-Portillo, Vicenç, Svendsen, Claus, Van Gestel, Cornelis A.M.   +8 more
openaire   +3 more sources