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Key Risk Factors Affecting Farmers’ Mental Health: A Systematic Review
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019 Recently, concern has increased globally over farmers’ mental health issues. We present a systematic review of the outcomes, locations, study designs, and methods of current studies on farmers’ mental health.
Sahar Daghagh Yazd +2 more
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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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Towards Sustainable Digital Agriculture for Smallholder Farmers: A Systematic Literature Review
Sustainability, 2023 Smallholder farmers are key contributors to food security globally, and more so in developing countries. Despite their critical role in food security, smallholder farmers are highly constrained by specific contextual challenges such as climate change ...
Nametshego Gumbi +2 more
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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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Agriculture & Food Security, 2021 Climate change poses a threat to the sustainability of food production among small-scale rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa that are dependent on rain-fed agriculture.
Francis Atube +5 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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Have farmers had enough of experts?
Environmental Management, 2021 The exponential rise of information available means we can now, in theory, access knowledge on almost any question we ask. However, as the amount of unverified information increases, so too does the challenge in deciding which information to trust ...
Niki A. Rust +13 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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