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Forecasting food production is important to identify possible shortages in supply and, thus, food security risks. Such …
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This paper models inorganic fertilizer and improved maize varieties adoption as joint decisions. Controlling for … fertilizer and improved maize varieties were inter-dependent. Other factors found to influence the adoption of the two …
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Over the 2000s', consumers' food purchases have been increasingly informed by supply chain-related issues, with growing … concerns about the sustainability of chains differing for their geographical scope. As a result, short food supply chains and … local food systems have risen to policymakers and food chain stakeholders' attention as more sustainable alternatives to …
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We examine the impact of food labels that make unsupported claims of food safety and labels that provide information to … support such claims on consumer choices and examine consumers’ willingness to pay for beef products with these different food … two thirds of respondents who received a label with unsubstantiated food safety claims chose this option and were willing …
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traditionally attributed to an alternative food network (AFN). In fact, considerations linked to food safety and healthiness prevail …, metropolitan SPGs do not consider particularly desirable periurban and local food products. Observing the SPGs from this …
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years on agricultural and food commodities fromseveral countries, creating a supply gap of around 25 % in the Russian orange …
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This study assessed the determinants of intensity of adoption of Improved Rice Varieties (IRVs) and the effect of market participation on farmers' welfare in Nigeria using the Tobit and Heckman two-stage models, respectively. The sample consists of crosssectional data of 600 rice farmers...
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Agricultural price distortion which is the discrepancy between world market price of agricultural produce and price received by farmers as a result of market interventions by governments, either through subsidies or taxes or even trade protection systems, has received rare attention in the cocoa...
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period 2004-2019 and uses data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), an ordinary least squares model and fixed …
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This paper analyzes the effects of education on farm productivity in the case of growers of modern and traditional varieties of paddy in Odisha, Eastern India. Using an endogenous switching regression model, the study has found that a minimum threshold level of education is significantly...
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