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    <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:02:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The evolutionary transformation of modern agri-food systems: Emerging trends in consumption, production, and in the provision of public goods</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/240304</link>
      <description>Title: The evolutionary transformation of modern agri-food systems: Emerging trends in consumption, production, and in the provision of public goods
Authors: Camanzi, Luca; Troiano, Stefania</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Adoption analysis of agricultural technologies in the semiarid northern Ethiopia: A panel data analysis</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/240295</link>
      <description>Title: Adoption analysis of agricultural technologies in the semiarid northern Ethiopia: A panel data analysis
Authors: Gebru, Menasbo; Holden, Stein Terje; Alfnes, Frode
Abstract: Agricultural technology change is required in developing countries to increase the robustness to climate-related variability, feed a growing population, and create opportunities for market-oriented production. This study investigates technological change in the form of adoption of improved wheat, drought-tolerant teff, and cash crops in the semiarid Tigray region in northern Ethiopia. We analyze three rounds of panel data collected from smallholder farms in 2005/2006, 2009/2010, and 2014/2015 with a total sample of 1269 households. Double-hurdle models are used to assess how the likelihood (first hurdle) and intensity of technology adoption (second hurdle) are affected by demographic, weather, and market factors. The results indicate that few smallholders have adopted the new crops; those that have adopted the crops only plant small shares of their land with the new crops, and that there has been only a small increase in adoption over the 10-year period. Furthermore, we found that high population density is positively associated with the adoption of improved wheat, and previous period's rainfall is positively associated with the adoption of drought-tolerant teff. The adoption of cash crops is positively associated with landholding size and access to irrigation. The policy implications of these results are that the government should increase the improved wheat diffusion efforts in less dense population areas, make sure that drought-tolerant teff seed is available and affordable after droughts, and promote irrigation infrastructure for production of cash crops.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Commoning of territorial heritage and tools of participated sustainability for the production and enhancement of agro-environmental public goods</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/240296</link>
      <description>Title: Commoning of territorial heritage and tools of participated sustainability for the production and enhancement of agro-environmental public goods
Authors: Safonte, G. Fabiola; Bellia, Claudio; Columba, Pietro
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the commoning heritage processes find application for the production of agro-environmental public goods in contexts of high socio-economic marginality and environmental vulnerability, characterized by abandonment and from the consumption of agricultural land for food use. The purpose is to understand how these processes are able to influence, at local level, the governance processes for the implementation of environmental protection strategies. The survey made it possible to verify how the commoning processes aimed at the production of agro-environmental goods generate territorial resilience, understood as a community competence able to structure specific forms of social learning based on priorities identified and defined by the communities. The followed theoretical framework and the methodological approach have allowed on the one hand to draw up a taxonomy of the different territorial dynamics and on the other to identify a mixed indicator system, applicable and replicable also in other contexts, able to describe its dimensions analytically. The assessment of the cognitive elements related to the territorial fabric carried out through the proposed approach has allowed to demonstrate how the knowledge of the territorial capital contributes to the activation of forms of collective intelligence necessary for decision-making processes.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Do consumers' values and attitudes affect food retailer choice? Evidence from a national survey on farmers' market in Germany</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/240289</link>
      <description>Title: Do consumers' values and attitudes affect food retailer choice? Evidence from a national survey on farmers' market in Germany
Authors: Cicia, Gianni; Furno, Marilena; Del Giudice, Teresa
Abstract: New trends in food consumption are shaping consumers' preferences and buying behavior. Non-traditional food retailing and short supply chains (SSCs) are offering bundles of attributes that fit the needs of larger consumers' segments. Several studies have analyzed factors affecting the choice of traditional and non-traditional food retailing. Very few, however, are those studies that analyze the predictive role of human values and attitudes on the choice of traditional and non-traditional food retailing and supply chains. Usually, due to the low percentage of consumers involved in SSC, analyses of consumer behavior have been conducted using convenience samples. This study, based on online questionnaires submitted to a representative sample composed by 1009 German consumers, tests the hypothesis that the frequency of purchases at farmers' markets is related to human values: attitude toward the industrialized food market and attitude toward the environment. The econometric approach here implemented computes the model on average and in the tails of the dependent variable, frequency of purchases at farmers' market, thus investigating the model in a representative sample even where the percentage of non-traditional food retailing consumers is low, as occurs in the tails for low/high frequency of purchases. The questionnaire included the Schwartz value survey, attitudes toward environment and attitude toward industrialized food market, and self-reported estimates of the frequency of buying at farmers' market. Results suggest that the frequency of buying at farmers' market is hierarchically related to attitudes and values. The frequency of purchases at farmers' market is negatively related to industrialized food attitude and positively related to pro-environment attitude. Attitudes are in turn affected by values: self-transcendence has a positive impact on pro-environment attitude and the reverse is true for conservation. Furthermore, these relationships are not constant in the sample: they change according to the selected frequency of purchases.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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