I argue that increased consumption of vegetable seed oils high in omega-6 polyunsaturated fats has driven obesity in the United States, a link overlooked in the economics literature. Obesity rates have closely tracked the level of seed oils in the food supply since 1960, while diverging from...

While most studies on African Indigenous Vegetables (AIV) focused on their nutritional values, household income and consumer attitudes, little has been documented on their marketing patterns. This study examines the influence of socio-economic factors and market patterns on AIV marketing among...

The study examined organic vegetable attributes, consumer decisions and consumption patterns of consumers in Ghana. A sample of 399 consumers was selected using a simple random sampling technique and data was collected through structured questionnaires. The study analyzed the important...

Excessive use of agrochemicals in vegetable cultivation has led to several problems, including serious health and environmental issues. Therefore, farming with low-external inputs (LEIs) is inevitable for enhancing safety and security. Thus, the study investigates the need for capacity building...

In precision agriculture, computational techniques play a critical role. It is a vital job to detect and classify fruits and vegetables from crops and gardens. In fruit detection and yield estimation, an intelligent detection system is used as a key technology where embedded sensor techniques...

This study analyzes the state of vegetable cultivation and production in the European Union, with a focus on Romania. In 2022, Romania ranked 6th in the EU in terms of vegetable acreage but experienced a significant decline, and using SPSS, we forecast vegetable production and cultivation...

The Romanian vegetable market is in continuous development, with consumers preferring local vegetables to the detriment of imported ones. Even though there is a very good potential and a fairly varied supply of fresh vegetables on the domestic market, some of the producers have given up making...

Despite having a good scope of vegetable seeds as high value & low volume products, their profitable production is still elusive for the farmers. In this regard, a study was carried out to assess the economics of vegetable seed production and marketing in the Kavrepalanchowk district of Nepal....

Farmers have started to adopt information and communication technology (ICT), which has considerable potential to impact farm performance. This study uses data from a 2018 survey of 763 vegetable smallholder farms in China to estimate the impact of ICT on technical efficiency (TE). We adopt...

Relational contracting (RC) is an important yet little understood governance of transactions that provides more stability than the spot market and more flexibility than vertical integration. Employing transaction data on a large vegetable wholesale market in China, we study RC alongside a...

-- Chapter 1. Introduction , Jiandong Chen -- Chapter 2.Selection and Comparison of Satellite Data, Jiandong Chen, Zhiwen Li, Malin Song, Ying Feng -- Chapter 3.Measurement of Vegetation Carbon Sequestration Data in China, Jiandong Chen, Zhiwen Li, Malin Song, Ying Feng -- Chapter 4.Changes and...

The objectives of the European Green Deal are closely related to digitalization as a key factor in achieving them. Accordingly, this study aims at analysing the differences among the profiles of consumers from Romania regarding the method of payment used in online purchasing of fresh vegetables...

The paper aims to study the reaction of the Romanian vegetable sector to the disruption of trade flows due to the Covid-19 pandemic, analysing the evolution of the trade of the main vegetable products in the last decade in Romania and making comparisons with the most important vegetable...

Since 2005 when, at the initiative of the Finnish Presidency, the European Network of Living Laboratories (ENoLL) was established, the term "living laboratory (LL)" has spread throughout the scientific and technical world because: it aims to stimulate innovation in all its complexity, it can be...

The purpose of this study was to assess the current state of existing traceability systems in Vietnam's fruit and vegetable (F&V) value chains, examine pertinent policies and regulations, share international good practices and explore their potential applicability to Vietnam, and examine the...

The paper attempts to fill a knowledge gap by examining India’s pulse complex, consisting of production, consumption, and trade policies. India’s pulse policies are anchored in a cereal-centric farming system and prioritize national self-sufficiency as well as the mitigation of relative...

Fear of crime is a concern in developing countries where rule of law is imperfectly enforced. I use a cluster-randomized field experiment in Kenya to show that fear of theft imposes pervasive indirect costs on small-scale farmers, distorting their planting and time use decisions, as well as crop...

This study combined field trials and a greenhouse study to measure the impacts of residuals-based soil amendments on soil health and vegetable yield and nutritional quality for three urban soils. Two biosolids based products and two food scrap-based materials were included. Amendment addition...

Soil seed bank (SSB) is an important component in the process of rehabilitating degraded lands and forecasting the future vegetation cover of a given area and to take a required conservation approach accordingly. The present study was conducted in Hirmi dryland vegetation, Tigray regional state,...

This study collected 274 soil samples and 188 soil-crop paired samples in moderately Cd contaminated farmland dominated by vegetables in suburbs of Yangtze River Delta. In addition, this study conducted field trials of soil amendment and cultivar selection using Luhao as the target crop. The...

Climate variability has profound effects on vegetation. Many studies have investigated the responses of vegetation to climate change but ignored vegetation resilience and cumulative and lagging impacts. In this study, the spatiotemporal characteristics of vegetation resilience and vegetation...

Understanding of feedbacks between plant N uptake and soil N transformations under various vegetable production systems is of vital importance to enhance vegetable N acquisition and improve N fertilizer management. In this study, a series of 15N tracing pot experiments were conducted under...

The intensification of agricultural systems (e.g., cropping of vegetables) to supply the world population demand for food has increased over the last decades. In Brazil, the largest area of vegetable cropping systems is in Oxisols within the Cerrado biome. These areas are characterized by...

In March 2020, the Philippine government implemented the community quarantine regulation to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, and this has brought significant changes in the livelihood of small-scale farmers. We conducted a study to understand farmers’ experiences in the first two...

This paper aims to explore the value chain of vegetables with the explicit objectives of observing actors' performance in the chain and examining vegetable supply factors in the market. The primary data were gathered from 150 value chain actors in the North-Eastern part of Bangladesh, using...

The objectives of this study were to assess the socio-economic characteristics and the effect of floating gardening on income and livelihood of the farmers. The study was conducted in Gopalganj and Pirojpur district. Data were collected from the randomly selected 60 respondents during August to...

Agricultural research institutes in Sub-Sahara Africa have focused on establishing farmer groups that facilitate the commercial production and marketing of African Indigenous Vegetables (AIVs) to address food and nutritional security. With the freedom of selecting the choices of market outlets,...

Purpose: Mental budgeting, as a part of mental accounting theory, is expected to impact a household's budgetary management in terms of expenses. The purpose of this paper is to study whether and how mental budgeting can explain differences in farmers' reactions to different incentives of...

In many developing countries, smallholder farmers cultivating vegetatively propagated crops (VPCs) have limited access to quality planting material. This constraint can limit both the yield of and returns on VPC cultivation. Yet policy and regulatory initiatives designed to strengthen access to...

The spatial distribution of vegetative agricultural residuals (VAR) makes the economic feasibility of a waste treatment solution particularly sensitive to transportation costs, especially when farmers are the ones being charged for that. This study evaluated a method to design an economic...

The study presents a comparative analysis of eight Vegetation Indices (VIs) used to examine vegetation greenness over the northern coasts of Iceland. The geographical extent of the study area is set by the coordinates of the two fjords, Eyjafjörður and Skagafjörður, notable for their...

Diese Arbeit konzentriert sich auf die Rolle von Risikopräferenzen, Anreizen und Governance-Strukturen beim Einsatz von Pestiziden in der Gemüseproduktion in China. Das erste Kapitel stellt den allgemeinen Hintergrund der Dissertation und die wichtigsten Forschungsfragen der Studie vor....