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Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
wiley   +1 more source

Infestation, Community Structure, and Seasonal Dynamics of Chiggers on Small Mammals at a Focus of Scrub Typhus in Northern Yunnan, Southwest China. [PDF]

Insects
Lv Y, Yin PW, Guo XG, Fan R, Zhao CF, Zhang ZW, Zhao YF, Zhang L.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Early and sustained community engagement to reach unreached populations for malaria elimination in Lao People's Democratic Republic. [PDF]

Infect Dis Poverty
Roy SR, Banouvong V, Hoban E, Khamlome B, Chindavongsa K, Inthirath I, Inthivong S, Sibounheuang K, Akavong K, Huong TTG, Yadav RPH, Ringwald P, Kelley JF, Xangsayarath P, Shortus MS, Reyburn R.   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley, Sean Posey, Kathy Baylis, Daniel Osgood, Stuart Sweeney   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Balancing integrated green-grey infrastructure shapes carbon emissions in village-town clusters. [PDF]

iScience
Sun ZY, Zhu X.
europepmc   +1 more source

Analysis of the Management of Village Fund Allocation in the Health Program in Tuntungan II Village, Deli Serdang Regency

Anggi Novita Sari, Ulfiyah Az-Zahra Dahlan, Nabilla Tawaqal Ainy K., Putri Alvia Ritonga, Indah Doanita Hasibuan   +4 more
openalex   +2 more sources

Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

A study on the spatial distribution characteristics and influencing factors of forest villages in southwest China based on OPGD. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Liu J, Gong Y, Ma C, Yang L, Wang L, Gui Q, Cheng L, Zhang R.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Can outsourcing pest and disease control help reduce pesticide expenditure? Evidence from rice farmers

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Outsourcing pest and disease control (PDC) has grown rapidly worldwide, especially in developing countries. Although numerous studies have investigated various advantages of outsourcing PDC, little is known about its impact on pesticide expenditure.
Pengcheng Wang, Wanglin Ma, Mengling Diao   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source