Thomas Reardon, C. Peter Timmer, Christopher B. Barrett, Julio A. Berdegué
Supermarkets are traditionally viewed by development economists, policymakers, and practitioners as the rich world's place to shop. The three regions discussed here have a great majority of the poor on the planet. But supermarkets are no longer just niche players for rich consumers in the capital ci...
Riffat Ara Zannat Tama, Ying Liu, Man Yu, Md Mahmudul Hoque et al.
Conservation agriculture is considered as an agro-ecological approach to the sustainable and resource-saving crop production system. Previous studies on the adoption of agricultural innovation often consider socio-economic characteristics and overlook underlying psychological factors influencing far...
Parves Sultan, Ho Yin Wong, Md. Shah Azam
This study aims to examine how marketing communication channels for organic food (MCOF) and perceived organic food values (OFV) stimulate organic food consumers’ behavioural intentions (BI) within the stimulus-organism-response (S–O-R) framework. The online survey resulted in 1011 responses, and dat...
Gerold Rahmann, Mohammad Reza Ardakani, Paolo Bàrberi, Herwart Boehm et al.
S. M. E. Rahman, Mahmuda Akter Mele, Young‐Tack Lee, Mohammad Zahirul Islam
Growing and purchasing demand for organic fresh produce is increasing rapidly. Consumers are aware of health, environmental safety, pesticide harmfulness, nutrients, bioactive compounds, and safe food. Many research works are available on organic and conventional fresh produce. As organic fresh prod...
Ben Belton, Mohammad Mahfujul Haque, David C. Little, Le Xuan Sinh
Carol Shennan, Timothy J. Krupnik, Graeme Baird, Hamutahl Cohen et al.
In this review, we examine the debate surrounding the role for organic agriculture in future food production systems. Typically represented as a binary organic–conventional question, this debate perpetuates an either/or mentality. We question this framing and examine the pitfalls of organic–conventi...
Zhe Chen, Apurbo Sarkar, Airin Rahman, Xiaojing Li et al.
Zannatul Ferdous, Farhad Zulfiqar, Avishek Datta, Ahmed Khairul Hasan et al.
Bangladesh’s economy and livelihoods of majority of its population depend on agriculture. Despite the importance of agriculture, ensuring food security is a concern because of frequent natural disasters, the effects of climate change, and land degradation. The country has limited land area but diver...
Mohammad Ashraf, Mohd Hasanur Raihan Joarder, Sarker Rafij Ahmed Ratan
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors affecting anti-consumption behavior of the consumers toward organic food purchase: in particular, how do individual beliefs about trustworthiness of organic foods, normative structure of social pressure and self-efficacy affect individu...
John M. Dixon, Jeevika Weerahewa, Jon Hellin, Maria Fay Rola‐Rubzen et al.
Context: The COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting health and economies across the world, although the nature of direct and indirect effects on Asian agrifood systems and food security has not yet been well understood. Objectives: This paper assesses the initial responses of major farming and food sy...
Apurbo Sarkar, Honhyu Wang, Airin Rahman, Qian Lu et al.
The agricultural cooperative may significantly impact the adoption of environmentally friendly production technologies, which eventually help the farmers with better living standards and productivity. However, critical evaluation of how and to what extent the cooperative organization's participation...
Joachim von Braun, Kaosar Afsana, L.O. Fresco, Mohamed Hassan et al.
Duojiao tan, Festus Fatai Adedoyin, Rafael Alvarado, Muhammad Ramzan et al.
39 40 Currently, one of the most significant challenges of agricultural sector of an economy is to keep 41 pace with the world's rapidly growing population in order to feed them. But continuous 42 environmental degradation is posing serious threat to the agricultural production. The objective 43 of ...
Alison Blay‐Palmer, Betsy Donald
Abstract: Drawing upon research from a cluster and innovation systems perspective, we counter the argument that the food industry is a mature and dying industry and point to evidence of a vibrant, dynamic food sector that has made a substantial contribution to regional growth. Since the mid‐1990s, t...