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Impact of Mobile Phone Application Usage on Farmers’ Price Realisation and Expenditure on Pesticides and Fertilisers

Jayanth, Reddy Sai Shiva; Nair, Sthanu - 2022

Smartphones are fast emerging as one of the crucial technologies in agriculture and rural development. Even though, they possess immense potential in improving farmers livelihood and agriculture value chain, corresponding research is scant. By collecting novel data from 997 farmers in Andhra...

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Adoption intentions of smart weeding technologies : a lab-in-the-field experiment with German crop farmers

Feisthauer, Philipp; Hartmann, Monika; Börner, Jan - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 4 (2024) 1, pp. 1-23

hypothetical SWT adoption. We further test if an environmentally motivated subsidy, a green nudge, and a combination thereof affect … effect for the nudge and subsidy. Our findings have implications for policy and future research. Substantial policy support …

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Science-Based Food Labels : Improving Regulations and Preventing Consumer Deception Through Limited Information Disclosure Requirements

Dhyani, Joshua - 2015

regulation focusing on areas that do not address pertinent problems, but instead respond to consumer demand without recognizing … the underlying goals of regulation. Consumer demand, on its own is not enough to steer the direction of regulation. Unlike … past regulation, recent regulations have taken an approach that undermines consumer protection, is not adequately …

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The Indian Bt Brinjal Controversy : Genetically Modified Food, Legal & Regulatory Framework

Verma, Sachin P.S - 2015

Bacillus thuringiensis Brinjal, popularly known as Bt brinjal, was at the centre of a major controversy in India recently. Bt brinjal, a genetically modified strain created by India's number one seeds company Mahyco in collaboration with American multinational Monsanto, claims to improve yields...

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Animal Welfare, Moral Consumers and the Optimal Regulation of Animal Food Production

Eichner, Thomas; Runkel, Marco - 2022

animal food quality. With consumer and producer heterogeneity, regulation is the same but sector-specific, with a more … intense regulation in the sector with the worse living conditions of animals …

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Perceived legitimacy of agricultural support schemes : an investigation using factorial survey experiments

Glenk, Klaus; Liebe, Ulf; Thomson, Steven - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 4 (2024) 2, pp. 1-31

Agricultural support payments are a significant position in public budgets, and the legitimacy of such payments is subject to continuing debate, The legitimacy rests on the social acceptance of citizens for support payments to farmers, which is the focus of this study, Social acceptance is...

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Regulating Forced Arbitration in Consumer Financial Services : Re-Opening the Courthouse Doors to Victimized Consumers

McCluskey, Martha T. - 2016

Forced arbitration clauses have become almost unavoidable in contracts for financial services and products ranging form credit cards to private student loans. This report examines how the financial services industry uses these clauses to defeat consumers' rights and evade accountability for...

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Danish farmers' preferences for bio-based fertilisers - a choice experiment

Bonnichsen, Ole; Højland Jacobsen, Brian; Tur-Cardona, Juan - 2020

Within the transition towards a “circular” economy, more farmers are searching for bio-based fertilisers, which are nutrient products based on animal manure. In Denmark, there are many collaborative agreements between farmers, and the need for manure processing is relatively low. Arable...

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Direct Market Retailer Perceptions of State-Sponsored Marketing Programs

Govindasamy, Ramu; Italia, John; Thatch, Daymon - 2002

Direct market retailers were surveyed to evaluate their participation and opinions of the Jersey Fresh state marketing program. Other states interested in establishing a similar marketing program could target retailers who are most likely to participate in such a program. Specifically, the study...

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A Quantitative Analysis of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs

Galenianos, Manolēs - 2014

We develop a theoretical framework to study illicit drugs markets and we estimate it using data on purchases of crack cocaine. Buyers are searching for high-quality drugs, but they determine drugs' quality (i.e., their purity) only after consuming them. Hence, sellers can rip off first-time...

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