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Editor's Note for the Special Issue on “Sustainability, ESG, and Agribusiness” “可持续发展、ESG与农业综合企业”特刊编者按

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Agribusiness Pub Date : 2026-04-10 Epub Date: 2025-12-07 DOI: 10.1002/agr.70059

Hung-Hao Chang, Guanming Shi, Frederic Ang

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Sustainability Strategies in the Cocoa-Chocolate Value Chain: An Analysis Using Stakeholder Theory, Global Value Chain Theory, and Resource Dependence Theory 可可巧克力价值链中的可持续发展战略：基于利益相关者理论、全球价值链理论和资源依赖理论的分析

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Agribusiness Pub Date : 2026-04-10 Epub Date: 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1002/agr.22044

Stella Marschner, Luigi Orsi, Alessandro Olper, Stefanella Stranieri

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Government Support, Collaboration, and the Circular Economy: Impacts on ESG Performance and Firm Reputation 政府支持、合作与循环经济：对ESG绩效和企业声誉的影响

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Agribusiness Pub Date : 2026-04-10 Epub Date: 2025-12-14 DOI: 10.1002/agr.70061

Marcelo Werneck Barbosa, Paulo Renato de Sousa, Marcelo Bronzo

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More ESG Practices, Higher Financial Performance? The U-Shaped Pattern in China's Agricultural and Food Firms 更多的ESG实践，更高的财务绩效？中国农业和食品企业的u型结构

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Agribusiness Pub Date : 2026-04-10 Epub Date: 2024-10-21 DOI: 10.1002/agr.21989

Yanyan Zhang, Tao Xiong

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ESG Decoupling and Innovation: Are China's Agri-Food Companies Walking the Walk? ESG脱钩与创新：中国农业食品企业是否在行动？

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Agribusiness Pub Date : 2026-04-10 Epub Date: 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1002/agr.22059

Yanyan Zhang, Tao Xiong

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Trade and Sustainability: The Green Dividend of Grain Trade 贸易与可持续性：粮食贸易的绿色红利

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Agribusiness Pub Date : 2026-04-10 Epub Date: 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1002/agr.22036

Ting Xu, Chante Jian Ding, Kunqian Zhao

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Climate Risk and Green Productivity in African Agriculture: Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Implications 非洲农业的气候风险和绿色生产力：挑战、机遇和政策影响

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Agribusiness Pub Date : 2026-04-10 Epub Date: 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1002/agr.70034

Su Liu, Bingjie Huang, Zhiyang Shen

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Who Are the Farmers Participating in a Carbon Sequestration Program? Results of a Discrete Choice Experiment in Germany 谁是参与碳封存计划的农民？德国离散选择实验的结果

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Agribusiness Pub Date : 2026-04-10 Epub Date: 2025-06-16 DOI: 10.1002/agr.70000

Julia B. Block, Michael Danne, Oliver Mußhoff

{"title":"Who Are the Farmers Participating in a Carbon Sequestration Program? Results of a Discrete Choice Experiment in Germany","authors":"Julia B. Block, Michael Danne, Oliver Mußhoff","doi":"10.1002/agr.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/agr.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Agricultural soils offer great potential for carbon sequestration through humus formation. One way to motivate farmers to build up humus is through humus programs. These are still at an early stage of development, poorly explored, and the number of participating farmers is low. Our aim is to explain the heterogeneity of farmers' willingness to participate in humus programs by typologizing them according to different design preferences and socioeconomic backgrounds. To this end, we conducted a survey with German farmers including a discrete choice experiment and questions about environmental awareness, profit orientation and farm characteristics. We summarized farmers' attitudes towards for example, climate change with a factor analysis and included the results into the latent class model we used to analyze the discrete choice experiment. The farmers surveyed can be divided into four classes. The results show that the classes differ in the farmers' preferences for the characteristics of a humus program, for example, type of reference value and program duration, and according to the factors of the factor analysis, for example, advocacy of humus programs. The classes distinguish between disinterested and motivated farmers, farmers focusing on safe money and farmers focusing on quick money. With this study, we improve the understanding of farmers' acceptance of humus programs, which is essential before starting targeted (political) efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":55544,"journal":{"name":"Agribusiness","volume":"42 2","pages":"590-602"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/agr.70000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Fallacy of Sustainability: Evidence From Yangtze River Fishing Ban 可持续性的谬论：来自长江禁渔的证据

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Agribusiness Pub Date : 2026-04-10 Epub Date: 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1002/agr.22062

Xiaoyu (Ross) Zhu, Ashok K. Mishra, Wenbiao Sha

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Introduction to Special Issue on Agribusiness and Sustainable Development in Latin America 《拉丁美洲农业综合企业与可持续发展特刊导言》

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Agribusiness Pub Date : 2025-10-05 DOI: 10.1002/agr.70038

Federico García-Suárez, Francisco Rosas

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