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At present, the application of blockchain is still at level private chain, lacking systematicness and comprehensiveness, neglecting participation process multi-agent stakeholders, overall system not clear. This paper aims applying technology to field e-agriculture, building hierarchical theoretical framework revealing impact on e-agriculture. Through dividing hierarchy, this finally structures ...

Female agricultural contributions decline with agricultural intensification. W e formulate a n d test a theory of t h e processes of agricultural intensi fcation that explains a high proportion o f t h e variance i n female contributions t o agriculture. Five variables show replicable effects across two or more regions o f t h e world. These are n u m b e r o f d r y months , importance of dome...

One of the major drawbacks of conducting business online is the raised level of risk associated with business transactions. Potential business partners usually have limited information about each other’s reliability or product / service quality before an online transaction. In this paper, we focus on the problem of selecting a trustful electronic market (e-market), in order to perform business ...

BACKGROUND Recent serological studies indicate that hepatitis E virus (HEV) is endemic in industrialised countries. The increasing trend in the number of autochthonous cases of HEV genotype 3 in Western European countries, stresses the importance to get insight in the exact routes of exposure. Pigs are the main animal reservoir, and zoonotic food-borne transmission of HEV is proven. However, in...

The Ghana cocoa market has been extensively liberalised over the period since the mid 1980s. Three issues have been prominent in microeconomic research on the effects of liberalisation on agriculture. The first has been the size of any supply response, the second has been the effect on producers of reduced subsidies on inputs, and the third whether innovation has occurred. In this paper we inve...

OBJECTIVES Relating food diversity, quality, and intake is one of the key aspects in understanding household food security. This paper aimed at marying food intake and quality, both being measurement for food security. METHODS A household food consumption survey (n=200) exploring food diversity, quality of foods, and their relation to food intake in Embo, a poor farming community in rural Kwa...

professor and economist, Department of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University; and Stiles is an assistant specialist, University of Arkansas Extension Service. For more information, contact Martin at (662) 686-3264; e-mail [email protected]. This information sheet was published by the Office of Agricultural Communications, a unit of the Division of Agriculture, Forestry, and...

Technologies and skills in the ICT sector have rapidly advanced in the past forty years, but the profession has not kept up with this process. Unfortunately, poorly qualified colleagues are even found in sector today. The EU ensures that the knowledge, skills and creativity of the European workforce (including ICT practitioners) meet the highest standards, by using effective lifelong learning. ...