A cradle-to-grave life cycle assessment (LCA) study was conducted for an open-field strawberry (strb) produced in California. The evaluation covered the full supply chain of strawberry, which also included the impacts of food waste generated at each phase of the life cycle. The supply chain...

Over the most recent couple of years, the Internet of Things and other empowering innovations have been logically utilized for digitizing the vegetable supply chain (VSC). Background: The unpredictable examples and complexity inserted in enormous data dimensions present a test for an orderly...

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...

Purpose: This research develops a model to improve the quality and freshness of sold vegetables through a funding program between farmers and retailers. Through this program, retailers who are interested in the distribution of first quality vegetables provide funds to farmers to increase their...

Consumer opinion and behavior research plays an important role in the development of the market of specific products. Currently, research in the field of consumer behavior towards organic food, which is gaining popularity on the Polish market whose production is in line with the concept of...

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...

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,...

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...

Erythromycin (ERY), a widely used macrolide antibiotic, is omnipresent in soil and aquatic environments, which may potentially contaminate food crops but remains to be explored. Pakchoi and water spinach, two leafy vegetables, were grown in laboratory-constructed soil or hydroponic systems to...

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 paper presents the results of research conducted under the conditions of Turda Agricultural Research and Development Station (ARDS Turda) located in the hill area of Transylvania, regarding the influence of the soil tillage system (CS - plow, MC - minimum chisel, MD - minimum disk and NT -...

Nigeria’s heavy dependence on crude oil has rendered its economy vulnerable to fluctuations in world crude prices hence the intense prospect for exportation of cultivable vegetables to the global market in pursuant to the compelling need for Nigeria to diversify its economy. This study...

US consumers currently eat less fruits and vegetables (FV) than recommended by dietary guidelines. Inadequate FV consumption exists alongside rapid growth in demand for organic FV. Since the viable production area of FV is finite, organic and conventional FV are linked in production while...

Although off-farm work plays a significant role in facilitating agricultural production and rural development and improving household welfare, little is known about whether off-farm work can promote fruit and vegetable consumption in rural areas of developing countries. This paper sheds new...

The main goal of the research is to consider and compare the importance of fruits and vegetables in external trade in goods of the Republic of Serbia. According to the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC), "Vegetables and Fruit" is a division that is dominant in Serbian exports of...

This study examines on-farm post-harvest losses (PHL) for three vegetable crops (onion, tomato, and pimento) in Senegal and the potential economic benefits associated with reducing PHL for these three vegetables. Household survey data was used to quantify the onfarm PHL for these vegetables at...

Vegetables play an important role in human nutrition, as they have a high content of nutrients. In the last five years, there has been a tendency to increase the consumption of vegetables among Romanians, this being attributed to the increase of the living standard, but also to the reorientation...

The paper presents the vegetable market in the period 2015-2019 in Romania, highlighting aspects such as: cultivated area of vegetables, vegetable production, price dynamics, average annual consumption, domestic and foreign trade. The fruit and vegetable market is one of the most important...

En los últimos años se observa un creciente interés en las cadenas de valor como una herramienta para analizar las dinámicas empresariales, el desarrollo económico y social, el comercio internacional y la innovación, así como para el diseño y la evaluación de políticas públicas. En un...

This paper designs and tests a model for count outcomes to analyse the effective demand for organic vegetables in the city of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. From a 'short value chain' perspective, we show that the distance travelled by consumers to organic vegetable production sites primarily...

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...