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Beyond subsistence? The role of rural cooperatives in driving smallholder commercialization in Ethiopia

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract The transition from subsistence to market‐oriented agriculture holds the potential to boost rural economic progress and improve the well‐being of the rural poor in developing countries. Despite this potential, there is limited understanding of the key drivers for smallholder commercialization. In this study, we utilize comprehensive three‐wave
Abebayehu Girma Geffersa   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inequalities in oral health among adolescents in Gangneung, South Korea

open access: yesBMC Oral Health, 2018
Background This study aims to evaluate inequality in oral health among adolescents and to explain the mechanisms of such inequalities in Gangneung, South Korea.
Se-Hwan Jung, Myoung-Hee Kim, Jae-In Ryu
doaj   +1 more source

Physical Activity, Overweight and Obesity Among Latino Youth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Highlights rates of physical activity and overweight and obesity among Latino youth compared with other groups; the role of environmental, socioeconomic, and cultural factors; and policy implications and interventions for increasing physical ...
Amelie Ramirez   +2 more
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Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to and Quality of Health Care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Reviews research on racial and ethnic disparities in health care access and quality and analyzes findings on the extent to which disparities can be attributed to factors other than race/ethnicity, such as insurance, socioeconomic status, and ...
Jose J. Escarce
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Impacts of geopolitics and policy on Latin American biodiversity and water resources

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Latin America is a major agricultural producer with important natural resources. Efforts have been made to protect sensitive areas but are hindered by agricultural trade disruptions outside the control of individual countries due to globally integrated crop markets.
Jerome Dumortier   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Un estudio ecológico sobre tuberculosis en un municipio de Cuba

open access: yesCadernos de Saúde Pública
Se aplica un estudio ecológico para analizar la incidencia de tuberculosis en el municipio Marianao de la provincia Ciudad de La Habana de la República de Cuba en el período 1995-2000.
Ivette Molina Serpa   +2 more
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Addressing Nutrition, Overweight and Obesity Among Latino Youth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Examines the environmental, socioeconomic, and cultural factors that affect nutrition and overweight and obesity rates among Latino youth, including limited access to healthy foods, high food insecurity rates, and traditional infant and toddler ...

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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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