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User-centred design of a digital advisory service: enhancing public agricultural extension for sustainable intensification in Tanzania [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Sustainable intensification (SI) is promoted as a rural development paradigm for sub-Saharan Africa. Achieving SI requires smallholder farmers to have access to information that is context-specific, increases their decision-making capacities, and adapts ...
Daudi, Happy   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Feasibility of district wide screening of health care workers for tuberculosis in Zambia

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2017
Background Many health care workers (HCWs) are at increased risk for tuberculosis (TB). The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends screening HCWs for TB in high burden settings but this is often not implemented in countries with a high TB incidence ...
Suzanne Verver   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Virtual barriers: unpacking the sustainability implications of online food spaces and the Yellowknife Farmers Market’s response to COVID-19

open access: yesNutrition Journal, 2021
Background Through their support of local agriculture, relationships, and healthy diets, farmers markets can contribute to a sustainable food system. Markets like the Yellowknife Farmers Market (YKFM) are social spaces that support local food, yet the ...
Josalyn Radcliffe   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Surveying queer farmers

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2023
Qualitative studies have begun demonstrating how heteropatriarchy negatively affects queer farmer well-being and farm viability. However, quantita­tive surveys of farmers rarely ask questions about gender identity and sexual orientation, precluding ...
Michaela Hoffelmeyer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Selection of native trees for intercropping with coffee in the Atlantic Rainforest biome [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
A challenge in establishing agroforestry systems is ensuring that farmers are interested in the tree species, and are aware of how to adequately manage these species.
Bonfim, V.R.   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Functional Connectivity Linked to Cognitive Recovery After Minor Stroke

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Patients with minor stroke exhibit slowed processing speed and generalized alterations in functional connectivity involving frontoparietal cortex (FPC). The pattern of connectivity evolves over time. In this study, we examine the relationship of functional connectivity patterns to cognitive performance, to determine ...
Vrishab Commuri   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategy for coping up with post-pandemic challenges faced by livestock farmers in India

open access: yesIndian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2021
This paper presents the impact of COVID outbreak on livestock husbandry sector and economic loss to dairy and poultry farmers in India. Lack of communication, shortage of inputs, poor access to veterinary care, disruption of supply chain and closure of ...
NARAYAN G HEGDE
doaj   +1 more source

Super farmers' market [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
'Super Farmers’ Market' was the second in a series of group shows that tease at the possible proximity of two forms of specialist consumption: fine food and fine art.
Francis, Mary Anne, Heyward, Lucy
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Creep Properties and Deformation Mechanism of Additively Manufactured NiAl‐CrMo Composites

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Additively manufactured NiAl‐CrMo composites contain numerous interfaces and cell boundaries that control their creep response. At 700°C under high applied stress, creep is dominated by dislocation‐controlled power‐law mechanisms. At 800°C–900°C and lower stresses, creep is primarily diffusion‐controlled along cell boundaries.
Jan Vollhüter   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Asthma in Vermont Dairy Farmers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Introduction. Although 5.4% of the Vermont population participates in agriculture as an occupation, little data exists on the prevalence of asthma in Vermont dairy farmers, due to inadequate sample sizes.
Close, Victoria Lauren   +7 more
core   +1 more source

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