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Associations Between Trunk Muscle/Fat Composition, Narrowing Lumbar Disc Space, and Low Back Pain in Middle-Aged Farmers: A Cross-Sectional Study [PDF]
Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2022 Objective To investigate the association of trunk fat and muscle composition, lumbar disc space narrowing, and low back pain in middle-aged farmers. Methods Fat and muscle areas were identified using standard Hounsfield unit ranges for adipose tissue and
Sora Baek, Hee-won Park, Gowun Kim
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Striving toward a peasant identity
Canadian Food Studies, 2022 As diverse actors work through disparate food movements seeking to tackle the causes and effects of the global food crisis, Holt-Giménez and Shattuck (2011) call for strategic alliances between progressive and radical trends in the food movement to ...
Roseann Lydia Kerr +3 more
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Farmer knowledge as formal knowledge:
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2023 Farmer-led research (FLR) is a process of inquiry wherein farmers use scientific methods to address their own on-farm curiosities and challenges in ways that are compatible with the scale and management style of their operations.
Erin Nelson +2 more
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Iteration, innovation, and collaboration
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2020 First paragraph: The value proposition of farmers markets has been altered by the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival-like features of markets put on hold, the in-person social interactions reduced, the physical flow of walk-up markets changed.
Diana Broadaway, Darlene Wolnik
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Sustainable and precision agriculture practices are essential to meet the global food demand with minimal impact on soil, air and water. In the present study, nanofertilizers of nitrogen and zinc was used with the organic farming practice under field ...
Anil Kumar +7 more
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Women’s Land Rights as a Pathway to Food Security in Uganda
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2022 Context and background In common with other African countries, colonization had an important impact on land relations in Uganda. Land is an important asset for people’s livelihoods and for economic development in Uganda, where the majority of people ...
Andrew Adem +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 In this paper, a comparative analysis between the hand-held refractometer and other methods (TKN and CHNS) was accomplished for the estimation of nitrogen percentage (N%) in urea, nano urea fertilizer, and diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) solution. In order to
Vijendra Singh Bhati, Ramesh Raliya
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Captura, selección e ingestión de partículas en Ostreidae (Bivalvia): Crassostrea spp.
AquaTechnica, 2020 La contribución de los moluscos bivalvos a la producción acuícola mundial ha mostrado un incremento constante, la cual ha sido de gran importancia e impacto como fuente de alimentos con alto valor nutricional, divisas y empleo, generando así un interés ...
Alexander Valera-Mejias +1 more
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Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2021 First paragraphs: Senior high school student volunteer Tyler Carroll walks out to the car that has pulled up along the back of the renovated former iron works building, the site of the Vermont Farmers Food Center, in downtown Rutland, Vermont.
Emma Hileman
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A practitioner’s perspective on what we know about safeguarding pollinators on farmland
Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2023 Farmers understand the general importance of pollinators, and through their management of cropped land and non-cropped areas on the farm they have the potential to do more than any other group to help provide habitat and food for pollinating insects ...
Chris Hartfield
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