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Impact of crop commercialization on smallholder farmers’ resilience to shocks: Evidence from panel data for rural Southeast Asia 作物商业化对小农抵御冲击能力的影响：来自东南亚农村地区面板数据的证据

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-08-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102709

Manh Hung Do, Trung Thanh Nguyen

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Development of the Food Systems Literacy Competencies Framework for youth: A modified Delphi study with experts 为青年制定食品系统扫盲能力框架：经修改的德尔菲专家研究

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-08-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102702

Alicia E. Martin , Jess Haines , Evan D.G. Fraser

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Market food environments and child nutrition 市场食品环境与儿童营养

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-08-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102704

Vivien Hülsen , Makaiko G. Khonje , Matin Qaim

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Impact of food hubs on food security and sustainability: Food hubs perspectives from Leeds, UK 粮食中心对粮食安全和可持续性的影响：英国利兹的粮食中心视角

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102705

Effie Papargyropoulou , Gemma Bridge , Sonja Woodcock , Emma Strachan , Joanna Rowlands , Elizabeth Boniface

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Animal disease outbreaks and upstream soybean trade 动物疫病爆发与上游大豆贸易

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102685

Wuit Yi Lwin, K. Aleks Schaefer, Amy D. Hagerman

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Robust policy frameworks for strengthening the resilience and sustainability of agri-food global value chains 加强农业食品全球价值链的复原力和可持续性的有力政策框架

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102714

Titus Awokuse , Sunghun Lim , Fabio Santeramo , Sandro Steinbach

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Emerging outsource agricultural services enable farmer adaptation in agrifood value chains: A product cycle perspective 新兴的农业外包服务使农民能够适应农业食品价值链：产品周期视角

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102711

Thomas Reardon , Titus Awokuse , Ben Belton , Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie , Bart Minten , Genevieve Nguyen , Sara Qanti , Johan Swinnen , Rob Vos , David Zilberman

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Technology-driven transformations in agri-food global value chains: The role of incumbent firms from a corporate venture capital perspective 农业食品全球价值链中的技术驱动转型：从企业风险投资的角度看现有企业的作用

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102684

Pablo Mac Clay , Roberto Feeney , Jorge Sellare

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Understanding firm networks in global agricultural value chains 了解全球农业价值链中的企业网络

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102689

Anne Beck , Sunghun Lim , Daria Taglioni

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Did product certification and e-commerce benefit agricultural producers in China? 产品认证和电子商务是否使中国的农业生产者受益？

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102688

Shuang Liu , Yanhong Jin , Fengtian Zheng

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