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Assessing the Impacts of Federal Farm Bill Programs on Rural Communities [PDF]
, 2013 This report summarizes the state of scientific knowledge on the impact of federal farm and food programs on rural communities in the United States.
Grimm, Curt D. +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Achieving Agenda 2030 depends on addressing interactions between the sustainable development goals (SDGs). In this paper, we conceptualize SDG interactions as synergies or trade‐offs, incoming or outgoing, and internal or external, and analyze how SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) interacts with other SDGs within and across policy programmes that support ...
Annita Jepchirchir Kirwa +3 more
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CONSUMERS' PERCEPTIONS OF LOCALLY GROWN PRODUCE AT RETAIL OUTLETS [PDF]
Consumer/Household Economics,
Brooker, John R. +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The adoption of rural livelihood technologies is often hindered by a gap between participatory design and user capacity. This study addresses this challenge with a co‐designed lemongrass distillation system in rural India that remained unused due to a lack of community capacity, despite a successful design process.
Aroun Clément Baudouin‐van Os +4 more
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Obesity, BMI, and Diet Quality: How does the South Measure Up? [PDF]
This paper examines regional differences in obesity rates, Body Mass Index (BMI) and dietary quality, using data from the 1999-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), Mobile Examination Center (MEC).
Duffy, Patricia A. +2 more
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Local and ecological food consumption - case studies in Finland and Sweden [PDF]
, 2004 Preliminary results show that in the Juva district amount of energy according to the purchase diary is 7.6 MJ/person/day and in Järna district the amount is 9.4 MJ/person/day.
Hannula, Annamari +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farmers' capabilities, a core component of social sustainability, have been largely neglected in sustainable agriculture discourse. Using a relational approach to capabilities and autonomy, this study explores how women farmers translate the opportunity of agricultural innovation into their valued outcomes, and which factors shape their ...
Dawn D. Cheong, Bettina Bock
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No. 22: The Return of Food: Poverty and Urban Food Security in Zimbabwe after the Crisis [PDF]
, 2016 The nadir of Zimbabwe’s political and economic crisis in 2008 coincided with the implementation of a baseline household food security survey in Harare by AFSUN.
Crush, Jonathan +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Urbanization is a defining feature of contemporary development, shaping economic opportunities, social structures, and health outcomes. This study examines the influence of urbanization on life expectancy in Bangladesh, with particular attention to the role of the energy mix and industrialization.
Md. Hasanur Rahman +3 more
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Addressing the double burden of malnutrition in Egypt: do conditional cash transfers have a role? [PDF]
, 2009 Many developing countries are undergoing rapid socio-economic changes that impact on health and its social distribution. These changes can occur so rapidly that there is a resulting co-existence of diseases of affluence and diseases of poverty.
Aitsi-Selmi, A. +3 more
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