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Harnessing rural community savings groups for contribution collection in the Zambia national health insurance scheme: an analysis of community perspectives using the motivation and ability framework. [PDF]

BMC Health Serv Res
Silumbwe A, Simataa N, Zulu JM, Bulawayo M, Chewe M, Hangoma P.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões, Cassiano Bragagnolo, Humberto Francisco Silva Spolador   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Temporal and spatial patterns and determinants of traditional villages in Henan Province. [PDF]

PLoS One
Zhang M, Wu J, Liu Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Weather Attention in Online Discourse and Price Uncertainty in Agricultural Futures Markets

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Weather is a central determinant of production risk in agricultural markets, but markets respond not only to weather conditions themselves, but also to how those conditions are noticed, framed, and interpreted in public discourse. In this setting, real‐time online weather discussions may shape price uncertainty by influencing how market ...
Mario A. Ortez, Olga Isengildina Massa, Michael Liam Smith, Nicole Olynk Widmar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perceptions, Attitudes, and Expectations Toward Primary Health Care Service Provision and Their Association with Service Utilization in Subdistrict Health Promoting Hospitals in Northeastern Thailand: A Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]

Healthcare (Basel)
Somporn K, Songsin N, Chusuton S, Singsu S, Phranphithak A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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

Learning from animals? shared plant use between Lua herders and water buffalo in Northern Thailand. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed
Lainé N, Fooyontphanich K, Janyasuthiwong S, Prommanut P.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Drought Exposure and Dynamic Input Adjustment in North Central U.S. Agriculture

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether realized extreme drought episodes affect the speed of adjustment of derived input demands and output supplies toward their long‐run equilibrium in U.S. agriculture, focusing on states in the North Central Region.
Victor H. Lana Pinto, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Examining the nexus between household livelihood vulnerability and ecosystem service dependence in southern Shaanxi. [PDF]

iScience
Liu W, Guo L, Xu J, Feldman MW, Li C.
europepmc   +1 more source

A Unifying Approach to Self‐Organizing Systems Interacting via Conservation Laws

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
The article develops a unified way to model and analyze self‐organizing systems whose interactions are constrained by conservation laws. It represents physical/biological/engineered networks as graphs and builds projection operators (from incidence/cycle structure) that enforce those constraints and decompose network variables into constrained versus ...
F. Barrows, G. Zhang, S. Anand, Z. Chen, J. Lin, A. Desai, S. Martiniani, F. Caravelli   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source