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Farmers’ suicide in India: "Sociological disaster or unrecognized psychopathology"
Kerala Journal of PsychiatryThough agricultural farming is considered a peaceful and healthy industry, it has a high rate of mortality, especially suicide. Farmer suicides account for 11.2% of all suicides in India. This is an increase of 5.7% when compared with 2020 figures.
Sureshkumar Pattath Narayanan +1 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cultural capital influences a wide range of social and economic outcomes, yet quantitative measures suitable for policy analysis remain limited. We develop county‐level cultural capital indices for the US based on Bourdieu's framework of objectified, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital.
Pratyoosh Kashyap +2 more
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Water Alternatives, 2018 Although much has been written about the indigenous irrigation systems of Tanzania, there has been no comprehensive historical study of state irrigation planning.
Chris de Bont
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Ecology and SocietyA growing proportion of the agricultural research community has been calling for a systemic restructuring of farmer-researcher relationships to accelerate learning and facilitate transformations toward a climate-resilient food system.
Katie Rohrbaugh +3 more
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Strengthening farmer-led experiments through agronomic and causal inference frameworks
Agronomy JournalThis study explores how scientists can support on-farm experiments using analytical methods that align with farmers’ endogenous learning processes. Four maize farmers across 10 site-years in New York participated in this study to evaluate the effectiveness of a nitrogen-fixing inoculant (NFI) applied with a reduced side-dress nitrogen rate.
Louis Longchamps +8 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines interval selection in the Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Rainfall Index (PRF‐RI) program and evaluates how uniform premium subsidy rates affect optimal interval selections. Using South Dakota as a case study, we show a trend of increasing selection of nonproduction intervals from 2013 to 2024, raising concerns about program
Whoi Cho, Matthew Diersen
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Assessing Photovoltaic Recycling Capacities and Policy Gaps in the European Union
Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.This study maps photovoltaic recycling capacity in the EU and key global regions, highlighting gaps between growing waste volumes and available infrastructure. It combines survey insights and policy analysis to identify recycling bottlenecks and offers recommendations to boost circularity in the solar sector.
Nieves Espinosa +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amidst a recent surge in US goat meat imports to meet growing demand, this study contributes to the meat demand literature by examining consumer preferences for goat meat, a relatively healthy and environmentally friendly alternative to other popular meats.
Binod Khanal +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang +3 more
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