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Filippo Giorcelli, Sergej Antonello Sirigu, Giuseppe Giorgi, Nicolás Faedo, Mauro Bonfanti, Jacopo Ramello, Ermanno Giorcelli and Giuliana Mattiazzo
Among the challenges generated by the global climate crisis, a significant concern is the constant increase in energy demand. This leads to the need to ensure that any novel energy systems are not only renewable but also reliable in their performance. A ...
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Meidiana Purnamasari, Wen-Chi Huang and Bambang Priyanto
Enhancing self-sufficiency and national food security have been strategic policy goals of the Indonesian government. From 2015 to 2019, a food policy program called Upsus Pajale had been implemented to provide input subsidies and extension assistants to ...
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Guangcheng Ren, Xueqin Zhu and Shuyi Feng
Developing economies face challenges in improving the overall performance of farms. An essential challenge could be a substantial shift in the agricultural labor force to off-farm sectors during the process of economic transition. This paper estimates th...
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Zhaohui Yan, Mingli Wang, Xujun Li and Hui Jiang
China?s African swine fever (ASF) outbreak, which started in 2018, has had a huge and far-reaching impact on China?s hog industry, and it has not been completely eliminated so far. This article analyzes the impact of the ASF epidemic on the costs and tec...
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Sifiso Themba Clement Mdletshe and Ajuruchukwu Obi
The frequent failures of government-funded broiler enterprises raise concerns about the viability and wisdom of government funding for smallholders. This study therefore investigates the scope for the profitability of the small-scale broiler production a...
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Guangji Tong, Rui Hong and Lei Shi
Fruit and vegetable products, integral to human nutrition, play a vital role in dietary patterns. Moreover, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) region, a critical market for Chinese fruit and vegetable exports, has observed the growing...
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Zhaohong Wu, Wenyuan Hua, Liangguo Luo and Katsuya Tanaka
Improving the efficiency of maize production is of great significance for global food security and the effective supply of agricultural products. Based on the survey data of 381 rural households, this study uses a stochastic frontier analysis to estimate...
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Carla Henriques and Clara Viseu
We evaluated the execution of the operational programs (OPs) committed to encouraging the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To achieve this goal, we employed a novel three-stage we...
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Lilik Sugiharti, Mohammad Zeqi Yasin, Rudi Purwono, Miguel Angel Esquivias and Deasy Pane
In this study, we investigated the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers on firm production and technical efficiency in Indonesia?s manufacturing sector from 2010 to 2015. We scrutinized three different channels of horizontal spillover, n...
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Tomislav Krljan, Ana Grbcic, Svjetlana Hess and Neven Grubisic
Nowadays, container terminals are subject to extensive technological changes and specific transformations. Changes applied to terminals tend to increase their ability to offer high- end personalized services to the customers and finally affect the compet...
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