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COVID-19 Employment Status Impacts on Food Sector Workers

Cho, Seung Jin; Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2020

Food production and distribution is essential for human well-being, but the food sector has experienced a number of difficulties maintaining worker health and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine employment status changes of persons recently employed in the U.S. food sector with...

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CAP reform: Premise of the balance between sustainable food systems, quality of life and conservation of territorial resources

Toma, Monica; Haddad, Florentina; Nicola, Mirela Daniela; … - 2019

consumers and farmers who demand high-quality food while meeting the environmental, social and economic challenges, including …

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Covid-19 and rural landscape: The case of Italy

Agnoletti, Mauro; Manganelli, Simone; Piras, Francesco - 2020

Throughout the covid-19 emergency, health authorities have presented contagion data divided by administrative regions with no reference to the type of landscape, environment or development model. This study has been conducted to understand whether there is a correlation between the number of...

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Benchmarking technical efficiency of rice farms in Ghana: An empirical application of alternative production frontier approaches

Coffie, Rebecca Owusu - In: The Central European Review of Economics and Management … 2 (2018) 3, pp. 125-154

still low. It is therefore important to assess the efficiency of farmers and identify sources of inefficiency to develop … farmers in Ghana.Design/Research methods: Bias-corrected data envelopment and restricted single-stage stochastic frontier … models are employed to examine the technical efficiency of farmers and its determinants. The data for empirical application …

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Consumption and youth employment impact on production of Bulgarian organic products

Aleksiev, Georgi; Doncheva, Dora; Stoyanov, Konstantin; … - In: The Central European Review of Economics and Management … 3 (2019) 2, pp. 49-62

During the current planning period of the Common Agricultural policy of the European Union, a newly formed Bulgarian organic production sector has rapidly developed. In the span of just three years - from 2014 to 2017 Bulgaria has risen to the top of the EU organic production charts for several...

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Climate change impacts on agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean: An application of the integrated economic-environmental modeling (IEEM) platform

Banerjee, Onil; Cicowiez, Martín; Rios, Ana R.; De … - 2021

In this paper, we assess the economy-wide impact of Climate Change (CC) on agriculture and food security in 20 Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) countries. Specifically, we focus on the following three channels through which CC may affect agricultural and non-agricultural production: (i)...

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Urbanisation and rural development in developing countries: A review of pathways and impacts

Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu - 2022

This paper reviews the current state of literature on the impacts of urbanization on rural development in developing countries, with an emphasis on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It also provides a conceptual framework for linking these phenomena, and identifies research gaps that have important...

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Hot topics in agricultural and environmental economics - a large-scale bibliometric analysis

Droste, Nils; Bartkowski, Bartosz; Finger, Robert - 2021

Land use is at the core of today's complex sustainability challenges. Agricultural and environmental economics share a focus land and resource use but evolved in their own domains. Their specialized competencies can be complementary and thus strengthen policy analysis. We use structural topic...

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Leveraging innovation knowledge management to create positional advantage in agricultural value chains

Prasad Adhikari, Rajendra; Miles, Morgan P.; Bonney, … - In: Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (JIK) 4 (2019) 2, pp. 115-123

This study employs resource advantage theory to identify how beef cattle value chain actors' resources are translated into the positional advantage and how that then affects their financial performance in an emerging country context. The study tested was designed to understand if: (1) the...

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Os subsídios afetam as exportações agrícolas brasileiras? Análise a partir de modelos gravitacionais

Martins, Michelle Márcia Viana; Cechin, Alícia; … - 2022

The aim of the study is to estimate the effects of domestic support subsidies from third countries on Brazilian agricultural exports. The study contributes to the existing literature by applying to the dataset the subsidies provided by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development...

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