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How Does Cultural and Colonial Heritage Affect Optimal Branding Strategies? Evidence From the Rice Sector in Senegal

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Trends in the discussion of cycling in urban environments: An X-based study. [PDF]

PLoS One
Antón-González L, Pellicer-Chenoll M, Villarrasa-Sapiña I, Toca-Herrera JL, González LM, Devís-Devís J.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: Holistic approaches to understanding obesity and metabolic diseases in urban environments. [PDF]

Front Nutr
Cohen E, Diaw M.
europepmc   +1 more source

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

Stressful urban walks: an experimental design for measuring physiological and psychological stress in virtual urban environments. [PDF]

Virtual Real
Aghanejad R, Birenboim A, Matthys M, Claramunt S, Perchoux C.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang, Edward C. Jaenicke, Martina Vecchi, Sheng‐Jang Sheu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trash Talking: Anthropogenic Resources Facilitate Raccoon Interactions in Urban Environments. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Plimpton LD, VanAcker M, Kross S, Olarte-Castillo XA, Evans S, Konowal CR, Craft M, Goodman LB, Whittaker G, Needle D, Diuk-Wasser M.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Distribution and antibiotic resistance patterns of airborne staphylococci in urban environments of Delhi, India. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Kumari H, Singh M, Chakrawarti MK, Mukhopadhyay K.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source