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Do sustainability standards benefit smallholder farmers also when accounting for cooperative effects? : evidence from Cote D'Ivoire

Sellare, Jorge; Meemken, Eva-Maria; Kouamé, Christophe; … - 2019

While many studies analyzed effects of sustainability standards - such as Fairtrade or Rainforest Alliance - on … evaluating the benefits of sustainability standards in the small farm sector. …

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Food sustainability standards and agricultural cooperatives: implications for the small farm sector of Côte d’Ivoire

Sellare, Jorge Luis - 2020

Sustainability standards such as Fairtrade, UTZ, and Rainforest Alliance have recently gained importance in global …

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Meat Consumption and Sustainability

Parlasca, Martin Christoph; Qaim, Matin - 2022

Meat has become a controversial topic in public debates, as it involves multiple sustainability dimensions. Here, we … review global meat consumption trends and the various sustainability dimensions involved, including economic, social … and can also be associated with negative health effects. Technological options can help to increase the sustainability of …

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Organic agriculture, food security, and the environment

Meemken, Eva-Marie; Qaim, Matin - In: Annual review of resource economics 10 (2018), pp. 39-63

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Organic Agriculture, Food Security, and the Environment

Meemken, Eva-Marie; Qaim, Matin - 2018

Organic agriculture is often perceived as more sustainable than conventional farming. We review the literature on this topic from a global perspective. In terms of environmental and climate change effects, organic farming is less polluting than conventional farming when measured per unit of land...

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Transgenic crops, production risk, and agrobiodiversity

Vijesh, Krishna; Qaim, Matin; Zilberman, David - 2014

Do transgenic crops cause agrobiodiversity erosion? We hypothesize that they increase productivity and reduce production risk and may therefore reduce farmer demand for on-farm varietal diversity, especially when only a few transgenic varieties are available. We also hypothesize that varietal...

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Are the economic benefits of Bt cotton sustainable? : evidence from Indian panel data

Kathage, Jonas; Qaim, Matin - 2011

sustainability of these effects is still unclear and debated controversially between biotechnology proponents and critics. We use …

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Transgenic crops, production risk and agrobiodiversity

Krishna, Vijesh; Qaim, Matin; Zilberman, David - In: European review of agricultural economics : ERAE 43 (2016) 1, pp. 137-164

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Impact of tissue culture banana technology on farm household income and food security in Kenya

Kabunga, Nassul Ssentamu; Dubois, Thomas; Qaim, Matin - 2011

While tissue culture (TC) technology for vegetative plant propagation is gradually gaining in importance in Africa, rigorous ex post assessments of welfare effects for smallholder farm households is lacking. Using recent survey data and accounting for self-selection in technology adoption, we...

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Evaluating nutrition and health impacts of agricultural innovations

Qaim, Matin - 2014

Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the adoption of agricultural technologies, most studies...

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