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Scientific Skills and Concept Learning by Rural Women for Personal and National Development

Science Education International, 2017
This paper examined scientific skills and concept learning by rural women for personal and national development. The research design employed was a quasi-experimental one-group pretest and posttest design.
Felicia Onyemowo Agbo , Muluku A. Isa
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Farmers' Financial Literacy—Scale Development and Linkages to Accounting Practices and Financial Outcomes

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
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Rural women's preferences for cervical cancer screening via HPV self-sampling: a discrete choice experiment study in chidamoyo, Hurungwe District, ZimbabweAJOG Global Reports at a Glance

AJOG Global Reports
Background: Cervical cancer screening using HPV self-sampling presents a valuable opportunity to enhance access for underserved and never-screened women in Zimbabwe.
Mathias Dzobo, MSc, Tafadzwa Dzinamarira, PhD, Michael Strauss, MSc, Tivani Mashamba-Thompson, PhD   +3 more
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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
wiley   +1 more source

Canadian rural women's experiences with rural primary health nurse practitioners

, 2011
Background: In Canada, one in five women lives in a rural area. These rural women often experience different health challenges than urban women, including lower life expectancy, higher rates of disability and cancer, fewer available health care resources
Forchuk, C., Wagner, J., Forbes, D., Leipert, B.   +3 more
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Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah, Habtamu Alem, Abdulai Adams, Tomáš Ratinger, Miroslava Bavorová   +4 more
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Gendered challenges faced by rural women self-help groups in Shurugwi District, Zimbabwe

The Dyke
This study explores the gendered challenges faced by rural women self-help groups in the Shurugwi District, Zimbabwe, and analyses how these challenges impact the sustainability of their projects. The absence of focused research on the specific gendered
Smart Mhembwe
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IMPACT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS ON THE STATUS OF RURAL WOMEN

Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2018
Mother is a radiant nurse, an angel of mercy, a patient teacher, a watchful guardian and compassionate attorney and a fountainhead of courage. Post independence sociologists paid attention towards the women who are traditionally backward, exploited and taken as second-rate citizens.
openaire   +1 more source

Clinical and hormonal features of women with polycystic ovary syndrome living in rural and urban areas

, 2017
Introduction Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common endocrinopathies among women at reproductive age, but its pathology remains unknown.
Adam Czyzyk, Paczkowska, Katarzyna, Meczekalski, Błazej, Natalia Podkowa, Katarzyna Paczkowska, Blazej Meczekalski, Czyżyk, Adam, Natalia Ignaszak, Sławek, Sylwia, Krzysztof Katulski, Podkowa, Natalia, Sylwia Slawek, Szpurek, Dariusz, Dariusz Szpurek, Katulski, Krzysztof, Ignaszak, Natalia, Agnieszka Podfigurna-Stopa, Podfigurna, Agnieszka   +17 more
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török, Gréta Maró, Zsófia Jámbor, Zalán Márk Maró, Barbara Tocco, Péter Balogh, Péter Czine   +6 more
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