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 +3 more
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Elevated CO2 decreases micronutrient Zn but not Fe in vegetables – evidence from a meta-analysis
Frontiers in Plant ScienceWith carbon dioxide (CO2) levels continuing to rise in the coming decades and threatening agro-ecosystems worldwide, it is crucial to understand the impact of elevated CO2 on global food production and security.
Xiaolin Wang +5 more
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Vertical Integration in Produce Markets: A Colorado Cooperative’s Strategic Response to Change [PDF]
An evolving produce industry has placed vegetable growers in northern Colorado at a competitive disadvantage. The Colorado producers’ strategic response is to form a value-added, cold storage processing cooperative in the hopes of establishing a better ...
Hine, Susan E. +3 more
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Vegetable marketing in Vientiane (Lao PDR) [PDF]
, 2004 Overall objective: The main objective of research on vegetable marketing in Laos is to help harmonize vegetable production with the market demand in terms of quantity, quality, and price.
Khamtanh Thadavong, +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar +2 more
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Variation in the apparent faecal digestibility of macronutrients and urinary energy excretion for three diets varying in fat and fibre content-- assessment of the Atwater factors and related energy conversion factors : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Nutritional Science at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2007 Background: Current systems to estimate dietary metabolisable energy (ME), often based on Atwater factors, assume that diet ME can be accurately predicted based on a few chemical components and that the ME of components is constant across foods ...
Zou, Maggie Long
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India–United States Agricultural Trade Under the America‐First Agenda
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines India–United States agricultural trade under the America‐First agenda, highlighting trade patterns, tariff structures, and potential impacts of United States trade policies. Total agricultural trade remains modest at $7 billion annually, with India imposing higher tariffs (average 39%) than the United States (5%).
Badri N. Gopalakrishnan +2 more
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Lay-down working cart improves efficacy of hand weeding [PDF]
, 2004 Manual weed control is often the major limiting factor for organic vegetable production on a farm level.
Leinonen, P., Närkki, V.
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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