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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
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization of urban agriculture and farmers’ climate change adaptation: the case of Urban Wa, Ghana

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Urban agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to significantly improve urban food security and feed the underprivileged when promoted. In Ghana, urban agriculture has several characteristics that distinguish it from traditional farming ...
Godwin K. Naazie, Isaac Agyemang, Anthony M. Tampah-Naah   +2 more
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Estimation of Import Demand Functions of Two Key Food and Feed Commodities (Corn and Soybean) for India

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The derived demand for the increased demand for meat and dairy products is clearly observed in the fast‐paced growth of the Indian feed industry and its increased demand for agricultural commodities (e.g., corn, soybean, rice, wheat, broken rice, millet, etc.) as feed ingredients.
Dwiti Baruah Thapa, Sanjib Bhuyan, Kishor Goswami   +2 more
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ediblecity: an R package to model and estimate the benefits of urban agriculture. [PDF]

Open Res Eur, 2023
Pueyo-Ros J, Comas J, Corominas L.
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Campania Region: Multifaceted Urban Agriculture – Case Studies [PDF]

, 2015
In the 50’s the Campania agricultural activity lived a recession together with a growing process of urbanization, both for social and cultural reasons. Recently, there has been a comeback of the urban farming, related to several factors.
GORGITANO, MARIA TERESA, Costa, Sara, GIOIA, LAURA   +2 more
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Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt, Stefan Seifert, Saskia Wolff, Tobia Lakes, Marten Graubner, Axel Werwatz, Silke Hüttel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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, Valerio Giuffrida, Bruno Martorano, Georg Schmerzeck, Marco Tiberti   +4 more
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Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analysis of the Cys2His2 Zinc Finger Protein Gene Family in Flammulina filiformis

Journal of Fungi
Zinc finger proteins (ZFPs) are essential transcription factors in eukaryotes, particularly the extensively studied C2H2 family, which is known for its involvement in various biological processes.
Zongjun Tong, Xing Han, Xinlian Duan, Junbin Lin, Jie Chen, Jihong Xiao, Ying Gan, Bingcheng Gan, Junjie Yan   +8 more
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Challenges to Promote Sustainability in Urban Agriculture Models: A Review. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2023
Bennedetti LV, de Almeida Sinisgalli PA, Ferreira ML, Lemes de Oliveira F.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Other title: Water Management in Kansas

, 2013
Information on the Emergency Drought Livestock Water Supply Initiative was also presented to the Senate Committee on Agriculture on January 23, 2013.A set of 3 documents provided to the Kansas Legislature, House Agriculture and Natural Resources ...
Kansas. Department of Agriculture.
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