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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
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Diagnosing the system: Mental health, necropolitical uncare, and the abolition of migration detention

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the psychological effects of migration detention in the European Union's Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC) on Samos through an ecological lens. It explores a double normalization of suffering: the brutalization of necropolitical migration governance and the simultaneous understanding of resulting distress as an ...
Julia Manek
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Occupational Conditions and Well‐Being Among Informal Waste Pickers in Hong Kong: A Comparative Study of 2018 and 2023

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Informal waste pickers play a crucial role in urban recycling systems but often face precarious employment and systematic marginalization. This study examines the evolving demographic, occupational, and health trends of informal waste pickers in Hong Kong between 2018 and 2023.
Siu‐Ming Chan, Alan Tam, Heng Xu, Yu‐tian He, Yuen‐Ki Tang, Gum‐Ryeong Park, Wing‐Him Tang   +6 more
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Adapting Spousal Relations and Transnational Family Structures: Responses to Mexican-Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Migration

Norteamérica, 2018
By examining the families and supporting social structures of Mexican “temporary” migrant workers in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), this article explains how these transnational families modify their structures in an evolving ...
Aaraón Díaz Mendiburo, Janet McLaughlin, Don Wells, André Lyn   +3 more
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Competing a Family Language Policy in Two Generations of Transnational Families in Indonesia: A Case Study

Journal of Languages and Language Teaching
Transnational families in Indonesia currently still have many difficulties in developing and creating an ideology of language use that they implement in their families, with a variety of languages to maintain their family's ethnic identity. This research
Meka Mauziyyah, Endang Setyaningsih, Sumardi Sumardi   +2 more
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The filmic representation of home in transnational families: The case of I FOR INDIA

NECSUS, 2016
This article intends to study the filmic representation of home and homeland in transnational families through an analysis of the documentary I FOR INDIA (2005).
Efrén Cuevas
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Transnationalism and care of migrant families during pregnancy, postpartum and early-childhood: an integrative review

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Migrant families’ transnational ties (i.e., connections to their countries of origin) may contribute to their hardships and/or may be a source of resiliency.
Lisa Merry, Sarah Fredsted Villadsen, Veronik Sicard, Naomie Lewis-Hibbert   +3 more
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Transnational death and technological haunting

Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2023
The paper proposes “technological haunting” as a concept in migration and transnational death studies. Existing theory and empirical work in media studies explore connections between new media and grieving practices and how affordances of co-presence and
Natalia Sánchez-Querubín
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Reframing Trisomy 13 and 18 Care: Moving Beyond the Myth of “Incompatibility With Life” in a South African and Low‐and Middle‐Income Country Context

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Trisomy 13 (T13) and trisomy 18 (T18) have historically been described as “lethal” or “incompatible with life,” contributing to diagnosis‐based limitations of care. Contemporary evidence demonstrates greater heterogeneity in survival and outcomes than previously recognized, including among selected children receiving intensive care or cardiac ...
H. L. Malherbe, M. Araujo, L. Balimba, J. A. Joshi, P. Makhetha, M. Meiring, M. T. Mpe, D. Reddy, B. Shingwenyana, J. C. Carey   +9 more
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The International Consortium for Arthrogryposis: A Collaborative Framework for Early Detection, Care, Research, and Education

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC) is a group of rare congenital conditions, characterized by multiple joint contractures but may involve any body system including central nervous system. AMC is etiologically heterogeneous, with over 400 genetic and many non‐genetic causes implicated in its prenatal development.
Shahrzad Nematollahi, Noa Bouzaglo, Victoria Castillo Sanchez, Johanna I. P. de‐Vries, Klaus Dieterich, Alicja Fafara, Isabel Filges, Philip Giampietro, Göknur Haliloğlu, Judith Hall, Coleman Hilton, Remco Jansen, Valentina Maestri, Carolina Navalon, Daniel Natera de Benito, Tony Pan, Ani Samargian, Bonita Sawatzky, Harold van Bosse, Paul A. Trainor, Noémi Dahan‐Oliel   +20 more
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