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Academics Stand Against Poverty

Journal of Academics Stand Against Poverty (Journal of ASAP) is an open access international multidisciplinary journal published under the ISSN 2690-3458 (electronic edition) and ISSN 2690-3431 (print edition) by Academics Stand Against Poverty, a non-profit organization based in United States (EIN # 32-0324998).  Its mission is to publish high-quality work that can make genuine contributions to understanding and eradicating poverty and its effects in the real world. Such work will address the structural causes of poverty with an eye to the special challenges poor people face in such areas as nutrition, water, shelter, health and health care, sanitation, clothing and personal care, energy, education, social and political participation and respect, physical safety, family planning, environmental degradations and hazards, working conditions in employment and at home, navigating governmental agencies and the legal system, banking and credit, travel and transportation, and communications.  Journal ASAP is committed to ensuring that perspectives of the poor are adequately represented on its pages, and that these pages are accessible to all. The journal makes substantial efforts to include voices from the global South as well as from non-elite educational institutions and from organizations, agencies and communities that are working toward poverty eradication. It also aims for the widest possible reach by being entirely open-access: its one/two issues each year are free for download anywhere in the world without any requirement to provide personal information. Journal ASAP invites submission of original work and maintains a rigorous double-blind peer review system that provides constructive feedback to assist authors in presenting their work in a way that is clear, broadly accessible and practically useful. Journal ASAP is a pure Open Access Journal and allows the author to retain the copyright in their articles. Articles are made available under a Creative Commons licence (CC-BY) to allow others to freely access, copy and use research provided the author is correctly attributed.

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Article recordVersion of recordOpen accessVol 4 No Special IssueAugust 17, 2026

Exploring the Viability of Utilizing Agricultural and Rural Areas for Tourism: A Comparative Analysis of Farming Between Conventional and Agritourism Farms during the COVID-19 pandemic

This study compares the performance of conventional and agritourism farming to investigate how the COVID-19 epidemic has affected agricultural efficiency. The study was carried out in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in…

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  • Issa Kachenje

    Department of Agribusiness Management, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan

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  • Yasuo Ohe

    Faculty of International Agriculture and Food Studies, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan

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This study compares the performance of conventional and agritourism farming to investigate how the COVID-19 epidemic has affected agricultural efficiency. The study was carried out in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in Tanzania, due to a comparatively high concentration of agritourism and conventional farmers. Regression analysis and the slack-based measure data envelopment analysis model (SBM-DEA) are used in this study to assess farming efficiency and identify the critical variables influencing the productivity of conventional and agritourism farmers. The application of the comparative approach is what sets this paper apart, as most researchers tend to examine conventional farmers and agritourism farmers separately leading to a noticeable methodological gap. The results reveal a significant efficiency gap, where conventional farmers outperformed agritourism farmers. This result shows how vulnerable agritourism farming is to external disruptions exemplified by COVID-19-related disruptions. Moreover, the study identifies the positive influence of training and direct sales-to-consumers on efficiency, while recognizing the negative influence of lack of value addition and production of export crops. These insights are important for designing targeted strategies to ensure a sustainable recovery post-COVID-19.

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AgritourismEfficiencySBM-DEA ModelComparative AnalysisCOVID-19

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