Of the 37 million inhabitants of Uzbekistan, 49 percent lived in rural areas in 2024 - and the rural population is growing faster than the urban population. Agriculture is a key economic sector, accounting for 27 percent of total employment in 2019. This is partly due to Uzbekistan's prime...

This info sheet presents a concise overview of the EU School Scheme, which supports the distribution of fruit, vegetables, and milk to schoolchildren across Europe, along with educational and informational measures. It also summarizes key recommendations from the point of view of local and...

Background: Access to healthy food in emerging-economy cities is challenged by last-mile constraints and poor infrastructure. Aligned with the UN SDGs on Zero Hunger and Sustainable Cities, this study examines how a strategically located nanostores network can help close these gaps while...

The vegetable sector of the Republic of Moldova plays an important role in ensuring the food security of the population. The physical availability and economic access to vegetables are of particular importance for provision of the population with the necessary dietary norms. In the context of...

Vegetable crops are strongly affected by extreme weather phenomena (for example drought and floods), which disrupt the technological production process and favor the spread of diseases and pests, thus creating an unstable agricultural environment. In addition, these climate changes directly...

Encouraging the consumption of fresh food products, with a reduced degree of processing and processing, represents one of the sustainable global targets found both at the level of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and within the European directives and strategy, components of the...

Innovation management stands as a pivotal driver in attaining enduring sustainability in livelihoods. However, its progress can face formidable obstacles, encompassing the complexities arising from human perceptions. This research delved into the realm of innovation management within the context...

People waste a lot of food, especially at the consumption stage in consumer households. Despite the urgency of this topic, little is known about how consumers use visual inspection to decide to throw away fruits and vegetables at different stages of ripening and spoilage. We presented 366 US...

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...

Purpose: A high fruit and vegetable intake has been associated with reduced risk of hypertension; however, results have been inconsistent and it is unclear whether specific types of fruits and vegetables are particularly beneficial. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to summarize the...

Purpose A high fruit and vegetable intake has been associated with reduced risk of hypertension; however, results have been inconsistent and it is unclear whether specific types of fruits and vegetables are particularly beneficial. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to summarize the...

Recent advances in computer vision have allowed wide-ranging applications in every area of life. One such area of application is the classification of fresh products, but the classification of fruits and vegetables has proven to be a complex problem and needs further development. In recent...

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...

The increasing availability of retail scanner data makes it possible to study consumer demand at more disaggregated levels than ever before. This paper derives the asymptotic properties for a tractable iterated three stage least squares (I3SLS) estimator and applies it to estimate a quadratic...

This study identifies changes in fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption habits during the COVID-19 pandemic in Quito-Ecuador and observe relationships regarding household income and the relevance of FV nutritional value. The study used an online survey among urban residents (n = 1093) in...

In this paper, we estimate the effect of temperature shocks on the price of nine vegetables with a high contribution to Mexico's non core inflation. We utilize monthly panel data of the price index of each vegetable at the city level which we combine with high resolution weather data of the...

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...

-- 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...

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...

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...

In agricultural economics, fluctuations in food prices and the factors affecting these fluctuations have always been an important research topic. From production to delivery to consumers, the supply chain of agricultural products has a dynamic structure with continuous changes. In this dynamic...

What accounts for the ubiquity of small vendors operating side-by-side in the urban centers of developing countries? Why don’t competitive forces drive some vendors out of the market? We ran an experiment in Kolkata vegetable markets in which we induced (via subsidizing) some vendors to sell...

Restrictions on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and incentives for fruit and vegetable (FV) purchases are recommended as policy options for Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program (SNAP) to promote healthy food consumption among low-income Americans in the United States. This mixed methods...

What accounts for the ubiquity of small vendors operating side-by-side in the urban centers of developing countries? Why don’t competitive forces drive some vendors out of the market? We ran an experiment in Kolkata vegetable markets in which we induced (via subsidizing) some vendors to sell...