Article
Business
Safi Ullah Khan, Attaullah Shah, Mohammad Faisal Rizwan
Summary: Drawing on data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys in twenty-one countries, this paper provides consistent evidence of financial frictions hindering firms from introducing technological and soft forms of innovation. The study finds that the impact of financing constraints varies across different types of innovation, with a stronger influence on incremental innovation.
EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Edgar Martin-Hernandez, Clara Montero-Rueda, Gerardo J. Ruiz-Mercado, Celine Vaneeckhaute, Mariano Martin
Summary: Intensive livestock farming generates a large amount of organic materials, leading to nitrogen releases that contribute to various environmental problems. Nitrogen recovery and recycling are feasible and cost-effective approaches to reduce nutrient pollution caused by livestock operations. This study conducted a techno-economic assessment of different techniques for nitrogen recovery and recycling, and the results showed that processes such as transmembrane chemisorption, MAPHEX, and stripping in packed bed are effective and have lower recovery costs compared to economic losses from uncontrolled nitrogen release. Overall, nitrogen recycling is important for both environmental and economic benefits.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
(2023)
Article
Business
Baris Istipliler, Suleika Bort, Michael Woywode
Summary: Previous research has shown that institutional constraints decrease firm performance. However, it is currently not well understood how resource-restricted small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) deal with these constraints. This study combines an institutional perspective with a relational view and finds that innovative capabilities and networking activities can help SMEs mitigate the negative impact of institutional constraints on firm performance.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Business
Christian Kabengele, Ruediger Hahn
Summary: Mobile money is widely adopted in emerging countries, and the adoption success is influenced by factors such as firm interaction with target market institutions, market power and institutional voids, enabling regulation and infrastructure, multinational telecommunication companies, and fintech companies offering a broad scope of services.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
John Coffie Azamela, Zhiwei Tang, Ackah Owusu, Sulemana Bankuoru Egala, Emmanuel Bruce
Summary: This study investigates the impact of institutional creativity and innovation capacity on public innovation performance in Ghana. The findings show that organizational creativity has a positive impact, while innovation capacity does not significantly affect innovation performance. Inter-agency collaboration and institutional leadership contribute positively to creativity and innovation capacity, while stakeholder pressure has a negative impact on both creativity and innovation performance.
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Zelalem Lema, Lisa A. Lobry de Bruyn, Graham R. Marshall, Romana Roschinsky, Alan J. Duncan
Summary: The study reveals that multi-level Innovation Platforms can facilitate technical innovations and enhance capacity in feed technologies. However, achieving sustained innovation requires integrating value chain concepts early on and engaging relevant actors across levels for multiple interventions.
AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ephraim Bonah Agyekum
Summary: The research presented the techno-economic potential of two different photovoltaic power plants systems in three different climatic conditions in Ghana. The integration of tracking systems increased the annual energy generation and capacity factor, with the northern section identified as the best location for large-scale PPP development in Ghana.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENTS
(2021)
Article
Veterinary Sciences
Francis Sena Nuvey, Gunther Fink, Jan Hattendorf, Gloria Ivy Mensah, Kennedy Kwasi Addo, Bassirou Bonfoh, Jakob Zinsstag
Summary: Livestock diseases have a significant impact on agricultural productivity and pose a threat to livelihoods and food safety. Vaccines are effective in controlling infectious livestock diseases, but their utilization is low. This study examines the barriers and determinants of vaccination utilization for priority livestock diseases in Ghana.
PREVENTIVE VETERINARY MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Veterinary Sciences
Emily Awuor Ouma, Clovice Kankya, Michel Dione, Terra Kelly, Dolapo Enahoro, Gaspar Chiwanga, Yakubu Abukari, Peter Msoffe, Boniface Baboreka Kayang, Huaijun Zhou
Summary: Smallholder poultry production in low- and middle-income countries is constrained by infectious diseases, particularly viral diseases such as Newcastle disease. This study used participatory epidemiology approaches to understand the challenges faced by smallholder poultry producers in Northern Ghana and Central Tanzania. The results highlighted the dominance of small-scale semi-intensive and extensive scavenging poultry production systems, and identified Newcastle disease as the highest cause of morbidity and mortality in chickens in both countries.
FRONTIERS IN VETERINARY SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Francis Sena Nuvey, Daniel T. Haydon, Jan Hattendorf, Kennedy Kwasi Addo, Gloria Ivy Mensah, Guenther Fink, Jakob Zinsstag, Bassirou Bonfoh
Summary: Livestock production is crucial for the livelihoods of many people in developing countries, but poor control of livestock diseases hampers productivity and threatens farmers' wellbeing and food security. This study examines the impact of disease-induced livestock mortalities on the wellbeing of livestock farmers.
Article
Management
Feng Zhang, Haina Zhang, David H. Brown, Xile Yin
Summary: This study examines the impact of service innovation and product innovativeness on manufacturing firm performance in the aspirant market of China. The findings suggest that in a complex institutional environment, service innovation is more effective for performance, especially when supported by the government and in the presence of dysfunctional competition.
ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Microbiology
Emilie Egholm Bruun Jensen, Victoria Sedor, Emmanuel Eshun, Patrick Njage, Saria Otani, Frank M. Aarestrup
Summary: Limited knowledge and research exist on the bacteriome and resistome in livestock in Africa. This study compared the antimicrobial resistance gene (ARG) pools and bacteriome in pigs and poultry from Ghana and European countries. Significant differences were found in ARG and bacterial abundance and composition between Ghanaian and European samples. The resistome composition also varied, with different resistance genes being more abundant in Ghanaian or European samples. This is the first report on the resistome in livestock from Sub-Saharan Africa using metagenomics.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Ying Sun, Derui Ding, Hongli Dong, Hongjian Liu
Summary: This paper addresses the event-based resilient filtering for stochastic nonlinear systems affected by outliers, utilizing gain variation and a factitious saturation constraint to improve reliability. By employing Lyapunov stability theory and matrix inequality techniques, sufficient conditions for ultimate boundedness of filtering error dynamics in mean-square sense are derived. The study also provides analytical formulas for desired filter gain and ultimate bound of filtering errors, along with simulation results illustrating the superiority of the developed filtering scheme.
INFORMATION SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Business, Finance
Julia Darby, Hai Zhang, Jinkai Zhang
Summary: The study reveals that high-value institutional trades exacerbate abnormal stock returns on extreme market movement days, and that regulator imposed price limits further amplify the destabilizing effects associated with these trades in Chinese stock markets.
PACIFIC-BASIN FINANCE JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
I. Paparamborda, S. Dogliotti, P. Soca, W. A. H. Rossing
Summary: Cow-calf systems are the primary livestock activity in the Pampas and Campos areas, but their sustainability is questioned due to low production levels and negative environmental impact. This paper analyzes cow-calf systems in Uruguay using a conceptual model and finds room for improvement in grazing control and timing of production events. Three types of cow-calf systems are identified based on the implementation of techniques, state variable evolution, and productive indicators, offering different starting points and strategies for sustainability transition.
Review
Food Science & Technology
Simon Oosting, Jan van der Lee, Marc Verdegem, Marion de Vries, Adriaan Vernooij, Camila Bonilla-Cedrez, Kazi Kabir
Summary: In the discourse of farmed animal production in the tropics, the key outcomes are to provide healthy diets and mitigate climate change, with circularity emerging as an integrated approach. This approach prioritizes food crops, avoids losses, recycles waste, and utilizes animals to unlock biomass. Collaboration between public, private, and social actors is essential for achieving maximum circularity and sustainability of food systems.
Review
Agronomy
Jan van der Lee, Daniel Kangogo, Seyda Ozkan Gulzari, Domenico Dentoni, Simon Oosting, Jos Bijman, Laurens Klerkx
Summary: This paper systematically reviews the literature on assessing the resilience of farming systems and identifies patterns in theories and methodologies. It introduces four theoretical positions and suggests a complementary causality framework. The paper also provides five design choices for rigorously assessing the resilience of farming systems.
AGRONOMY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2022)
Article
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
D. B. Akakpo, I. J. M. de Boer, K. E. Giller, S. Adjei-Nsiah, A. J. Duncan, S. J. Oosting
Summary: Crop residues have the potential to address feed shortages and nutrient deficiencies in West Africa. This study assessed the nutritional quality of grain legume fodders under different storage conditions. The results showed that farmers and sheep were able to distinguish quality differences based on physical characteristics, while laboratory analyses could not. Correlations were found between the different quality assessment methods, with crop differences being the important determinants. This highlights the value of farmers' knowledge in formulating and implementing interventions.
SMALL RUMINANT RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Forestry
Eko Nugroho, Rico Ihle, Wim Heijman, Simon J. Oosting
Summary: This study aims to assess the relationship between income source diversification, poverty, and livelihood capital for smallholder farm households combining cattle farming with forest extraction. The findings show no correlation between poverty and income diversification. Cattle breeders rely heavily on forest resources, while feeders exhibit increased income diversification.
SMALL-SCALE FORESTRY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
A. J. Netshipale, E. N. Raidimi, M. L. Mashiloane, I. J. M. de Boer, S. J. Oosting
Summary: South Africa has implemented land reform in the past two decades to address challenges of inequality, poverty, and unemployment. The lack of systematic classification of farming system types in land reform highlights the importance of understanding different types for targeted agricultural development.
Article
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Rui Shi, Wenqi Lou, Bart Ducro, Aart van der Linden, Han A. Mulder, Simon J. Oosting, Shengli Li, Yachun Wang
Summary: This study aimed to develop and validate the best prediction model of nitrogen use efficiency (NUE), nitrogen loss (NL), and dry matter intake (DMI) for individual dairy cows in China. The results showed that individual NUE can be predicted with moderate accuracy in both within-herd and external validations, while NL and DMI had lower accuracies. Additionally, the study found that information from MIR spectra variables increased the predictive ability of the models.
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Christopher Magona, Abubeker Hassen, Eyob Tesfamariam, Carina Visser, Simon Oosting, A. van der Linden
Summary: This study evaluated the ability of the mechanistic LiGAPS-Beef model to quantify beef production of selected cattle breed types in diverse agro-ecological regions in South Africa. The model simulated average daily gain (ADG) with a mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 23% after calibration, and the simulated and measured values were positively correlated (r = 0.88) and largely in agreement (index of agreement=0.92).
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Eko Nugroho, Rico Ihle, Simon J. Oosting, Wim Heijman
Summary: The understanding of the role of forest resource utilization in the livelihood strategies of smallholder farmers is limited. This study conducted a survey of 600 Indonesian cattle farmers to investigate the impact of extracting forest resources on livelihood strategies and household income. The results indicate that forest extraction is a core livelihood strategy for farmers relying on forests, and it increases with income diversification. The promotion of sustainable forest resource usage schemes, such as agroforestry or silvopastoral systems, would contribute to the sustainable future use of forest resources.
OUTLOOK ON AGRICULTURE
(2023)
Article
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Wilson C. Wilson, Maja Slingerland, Frederick P. Baijukya, Ken E. Giller, Simon Oosting
Summary: The demand for chicken meat and eggs in Tanzania exceeds production capacity due to low productivity of the sector. This study examines the yield gap in chicken production in Tanzania and explores the potential for increased production by addressing feed deficiencies. The findings highlight inadequate feed quantity and quality, lack of awareness about aflatoxin contamination, and the need for improved feeding strategies to ensure suitable and safe feed formulations.
Review
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Leah A. Germer, Corina E. van Middelaar, Simon J. Oosting, Pierre J. Gerber
Summary: This paper proposes a practical framework for assessing and comparing the synergies and tradeoffs among different livestock systems in achieving food security and climate change objectives. The framework aims to support stakeholders in policy and development to identify the livestock systems that contribute most to food security and climate change objectives over time and space.
AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS
(2023)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Ndungu S. Nyokabi, Imke J. M. de Boer, Jos Bijman, Bockline Bebe, Norman Aguilar-Gallegos, Lisette Phelan, Johanna Lindahl, Bernard Bett, Simon J. Oosting
Summary: The study aimed to examine social networks in dairy value chains in Kenya and understand how power relationships and trust among actors influence milk quality behavior. The researchers conducted stakeholder analysis using the Net-Map tool and analyzed social networks using VisuaLyzer software. They found that formal value chains had more actors and dense social networks with power asymmetries and limited trust, while informal value chains had fewer actors and less dense social networks with higher trust due to personal relationships. They also discovered that milk quality was perceived to be higher in the formal value chain. The study highlights the importance of addressing power asymmetries and enhancing trust to improve compliance with milk quality standards.
NJAS-IMPACT IN AGRICULTURAL AND LIFE SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Bhavana Rao Kuchimanchi, Raimon Ripoll-Bosch, Fokje A. Steenstra, Renie Thomas, Simon J. Oosting
Summary: The intensification of agriculture in India has improved food self-sufficiency but has also led to negative environmental impacts, particularly on groundwater resources. This study aims to understand the impact of intensified agriculture on water availability in a dryland watershed in Telangana, India. The findings reveal that the crop-dairy system consumes the highest amount of water, followed by the crop with small ruminants system and the crop without livestock system. The overall water balance of the watershed shows a deficit, indicating the over-utilization of water resources and groundwater depletion.
CURRENT RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Bhavana Rao Kuchimanchi, Raimon Ripoll Bosch, Imke J. M. De Boer, Simon J. Oosting
Summary: This paper investigates the characteristics and economic performance of farming systems in Telangana, India. It finds that the current farming systems have low economic performance, face economic risks and natural resource scarcity, and recommends the reassessment of watershed development policies.
CURRENT RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
(2022)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Ndungu S. Nyokabi, Pieternel A. Luning, Jody Emile Phelan, Jos Creemers, Ben Lukuyu, Bockline Omedo Bebe, Simon J. Oosting
Summary: This longitudinal study explored the intra-annual variation in feed availability and the chemical composition of milk and feed resources at smallholder dairy farms in Nakuru county, Kenya. The findings suggest that seasonal feed availability is a persistent challenge in smallholder dairy farms, but it has negligible effects on the physicochemical composition of milk.
NJAS-IMPACT IN AGRICULTURAL AND LIFE SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
E. Handayanta, I. Subagiyo, H. Hartutik, K. Kusmartono, F. A. Steenstra, S. J. Oosting
Summary: This study aims to estimate the optimum utilization of ruminant feed resources in tropical dry-land during dry and rainy seasons. The results showed that the maximum production can be achieved by using 14.5% to 46% of available feed.
IRANIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED ANIMAL SCIENCE
(2022)