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Farmers' Participation in Messenger‐Based Social Groups And Its Effects on Performance in Irrigated Areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in farming communities is increasing the use of smartphone‐based instant messaging apps. Despite this, the reasons behind participation and the impact on farm productivity in developing countries remain unexplored.
Zafar Kurbanov, Abdusame Tadjiev, Nodir Djanibekov, Ajit Govind, Akmal Akramkhanov   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic and Environmental Tradeoffs in Cultivating Short Food Supply Chains With Urban Indoor Agriculture

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study advances the literature on sustainable urban agriculture and alternative sustainable food production systems, which have gained momentum due to the need to strengthen regional food supply chains and meet the growing urban demand for fresh food. Indoor agriculture (IA) holds promise for year‐round cultivation of fresh produce even in
Joseph Seong, H. Christopher Peterson, Simone Valle de Souza   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

L’appropriation par les habitants des dispositifs de végétalisation urbaine participative à Lyon : quelles inégalités socio-spatiales ?

Développement Durable et Territoires, 2020
Since early 2000’s, the inhabitants of Lyon (France) are increasingly involved in city greening with community and street gardening. Public authorities support and supervise this involvement through charters and financial assistance. Yet, to put together
Amélie Deschamps
doaj   +1 more source

Growing intimate privatepublics: Everyday utopia in the naturecultures of a young lesbian and bisexual women’s allotment [PDF]

, 2014
The Young Women’s Group in Manchester is a ‘young women’s peer health project, run by and for young lesbian and bisexual women’, which runs an allotment as one of its activities.
Church, Andrew, Gabb, Jacqui, Holmes, Claire, Lee, Amelia, Moore, Niamh, Ravenscroft, Neil   +5 more
core   +4 more sources

The Challenge of Handling Structured Missingness in Integrated Data Sources

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
As data integration becomes ever more prevalent, a new research question that emerges is how to handle missing values that will inevitably arise in these large‐scale integrated databases? This missingness can be described as structured missingness, encompassing scenarios involving multivariate missingness mechanisms and deterministic, nonrandom ...
James Jackson, Marius Hofert, Eleni‐Rosalina Andrinopoulou, Niels Hagenbuch, Sarah McGough, Chris Harbron, Robin Mitra   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting planting in front gardens: a systematic approach to intervention development

UCL Open Environment
Planting in front gardens is associated with a range of human and environmental health benefits. Effective interventions aimed at cultivating this practice are, however, hampered by the paucity of theory- and evidence-based behavioural research in this ...
Ayşe Lisa Allison, Niamh Murtagh, Rachael Frost   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Profiling Community Gardeners

Journal of Extension, 2010
A profile of participants in an Extension urban community gardening program reveals that the program is successful in bringing together a large number of people from diverse income and age groups. Community gardening contributes to a change in diet among 3/f4 of both new and continuing gardeners.
Blaine, Thomas W, Grewal, Parwinder S, Dawes, Ashley, Snider, Darrin   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Study protocol: can a school gardening intervention improve children's diets? [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: The current academic literature suggests there is a potential for using gardening as a tool to improve children's fruit and vegetable intake.
A Demas, A Magarey, A Timperio, AW Fogarty, Birch, C Knai, Charlotte EL Evans, CL Perry, CL Perry, D Ciliska, D Gross, E Bere, E Bere, Foundation BN, G Auld, J Baranowski, J Connolly, J Gregory, J Rasbash, J Wardle, Janet E Cade, JD Skinner, JJ Reilly, JK Ransley, JO Fisher, Joan K Ransley, K Patrick, KD Reynolds, KW Cullen, KW Cullen, L Blanchette, L Wells, M Campbell, M Maynard, M Nelson, M Prelip, Mark Conner, Meaghan S Christian, MR Singer, MW Howerton, National Foundation for Educational Research, P Sahota, R Perera, S Somerset, S Somerset, SA French, SJ Te Velde, ST Yeo, StataCorp, World Cancer Research Fund, World Health Organization   +50 more
core   +2 more sources

Neighborhood social environments and mental health among youth and adults in public housing

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Neighborhoods influence health in part through social processes. However, little is known about how multiple neighborhood social processes co‐occur, or about within (vs. between) neighborhood variation in social processes and health. This study asked how residents of a large public housing development describe their neighborhood and used ...
Jane Leer, Lindsay Lanteri, Rebekah Levine Coley, Samantha Teixeira   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Community Food Production as Food Security: Resource and Economic Valuation in Madison, Wisconsin (USA)

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2014
Community food production (CFP) is emerging worldwide as a key component of programming designed to address community food insecurity. CFP resources in the form of home gardens, community gardens, and school gardens continue to gain wide support and ...
Vincent M. Smith, John A. Harrington
doaj   +1 more source