Diversified farming systems are promoted as a pathway to more sustainable agricultural production. Yet wide scale adoption may be slow because of uncertainty about the viability of farmer livelihoods on diversified farms and entrenched perceptions that monocultures are key to making farming profitable. Here, a global meta-analysis of 3192 effect si...
Published in International journal of environmental research and public health
The relationship and mechanism between agricultural low-carbon technology application and farm household returns are not yet clear, especially the lack of evidence from developing countries. This paper takes large-scale farming households in Jiangxi Province, China, from 2019 to 2020 as the research object, and obtains relevant data from field rese...
This report focuses on identifying plausible futures and potential returns on investment in the form of projected benefits for the One CGIAR research portfolio. Literature reviews indicate that returns are high. One meta-analysis of 292 studies finds an average rate of return of 100% on agricultural research after excluding extremely high outliers....
This study estimates economic returns to investments in rice varietal development in the Philippines and Bangladesh. The net returns to IRRI and national partners' investments remain strongly positive. However, the returns are decreasing at a faster rate in the Philippines (24%) than in Bangladesh (6%). IRRI and national partners should continue in...
Extensieve melkveehouderijen en akkerbouwbedrijven hebben verdienmodellen nodig om duurzaam bij te kunnen dragen aan doelen op het gebied van biodiversiteit en waterkwaliteit. Dit rapport presenteert en analyseert rekenvoorbeelden van verdienmodellen op basis van (combinaties van) lagere kosten, hogere opbrengsten en ontwikkelmogelijkheden voor het...
Titel: Closed-loop supply chain: Implementering av utvecklat returflöde gällande begagnade handskar på HESTRA-Handsken AB. Kontext: Dagens konsumtions ökar allt mer då konsumenten ser stil och pris som en viktigare komponent än hållbarhet. För att istället öka produkters livslängd och minska dess miljöpåverkan kan en implementering av CLSC genomför...
This paper examinesinflation in Singapore and Hong Kong between 2002 to 2021. The purpose is to investigate whether REITs can hedge against inflation. The inflation will be divided into expected inflation (EI) and unexpected inflation (UI). Furthermore, the empirical analysis will test the relationship between REIT price return (PI), dividend yield...
Introduction. Within the production systems of the peasant economy in the Caribbean Region, the cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) is important given its nutritional quality. There are few studies that inquire about the allocation of production factors by the producer. Objective. To analyze and determine the efficiency of cowpea production in the C...
