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Farmers Market Education with Supplemental Voucher Improves Farmers Market Awareness in Elementary Children
… of this pilot intervention study was to provide farmers market (FM) education coupled with FM voucher to assess FM awareness, attendance, and voucher use. <strong>Methods:</strong>Kindergarten through 3<sup>rd</sup>grade students attending a summer school program participated in this three-week …
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Kansas farmers' attitudes toward cooperatives
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Exploring Illinois farmers’ food insecurity status
… the food insecurity status of Illinois farmers to help fill the gap in the literature. A review of the literature showed little to no research regarding food insecurity assessment of farm owners in developed countries using standardized measurement tools, but some research has been …
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An Urban Dwelling Place for Farmers
… extremely critical to determine. These displaced farmers do not perform all typical city functions, but they are confined as city dwellers. For them, it remains critical to be connected with nature and neighbor. Urban farmers need housing that enhances their quality of life. Rather than imposing …
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Successful female farmers in natural resource management
… farming couples resp. successful female farmers in the frame of three projects for a sustainable management of natural resources in East-Africa against the background of the increasing destruction of natural resources (soil, vegetation and water); within this context, special attention is …
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CITY IN A FARM: NURTURING URBAN FARMERS
“And it is He who causes gardens to grow, [both] trellised and untrellised, and palm trees and crops of different [kinds of] food and olives and pomegranates, similar and dissimilar. Eat of [each of] its fruit when it yields and give its due [zakah/charity] on the day of its harvest. And be not …
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The Saskatchewan Farmers' Movement: A Case Study
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:49:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7309997.pdf: 23470039 bytes, checksum: 2544a1c1c9916b4aa959bfd91ee13f44 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Three essays challenging assumptions about smallholder farmers
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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Collective Action and Everyday Politics of Smallholder Farmers in Ugbawka: Examining Local Realities and Struggles of Smallholder Rice Farmers
… at the local level arguing that smallholder farmers are not robot but active individual who exercise their agency purposively or impulsively depending on conditions and the assets available at their disposition as well as their ability to navigate the intricate power dynamic inherent at local …
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Farmers’ use of information sources in British Columbia
… of the sources of information used by farmers in British Columbia. The study had four specific objectives: to determine what sources of information farmers in British Columbia use and how much they value them, to determine the relationships that exist between demographic characteristics …
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Obstructive Lung Disease among tobacco farmers in Malawi
Introduction and aim Tobacco farmers are exposed to toxic workplace hazards such as nicotine and pesticides in addition to known agriculture related hazards like dust, and ergonomic factors. Nicotine and pesticide exposure have been linked to the development of chronic respiratory diseases. This …
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Climate-change adaptation among Smallholder farmers in zambia
… and irrigation in order to help smallholder farmers adapt to the climate. Despite these efforts, observation suggests suboptimal levels of adaptation. In three substantive chapters, this thesis investigates the strategies smallholder farmers use to adapt to variability in rainfall, the impact …
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The milk supply response of Virginia dairy farmers
… the milk supply response of Virginia dairy farmers, including estimation of supply elasticities with respect to relevant prices. The supply response was estimated using linear regression techniques and quarterly data from 1965 through 1982. The hypothesis that producers are profit maximizers …
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Adoption of non-traditional enterprises by Virginia farmers
… in rural economies and attempts to understand farmers’ decision to adopt non-traditional enterprises. Three separate mail surveys were conducted to collect socio-economic data from biological and organic, Angora goat, and ginseng farm enterprises. Descriptive statistics, Pearson χ² tests, and …
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Kenyan Vegetable Farmers' IPM adoption: barriers and impacts
… management (IPM) techniques by Kenyan vegetable farmers, including the role of their risk preferences. It also analyzes factors affecting their pesticide applications and expenditures. A survey was administered to 450 Kenyan vegetable growers to identify their pest management practices, and a …
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Identification of food safety risks at Virginia farmers' markets and development of a food safety plan to help farmers market managers
The growing popularity of farmers' markets coupled with a high percentage of produce-related foodborne outbreaks highlights the need for an emphasis on food safety within these markets to protect farmers, patrons and local economies. The number of farmers' markets registered in the United States …
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Assessment of Warehouse Receipt System Role in Improving Small Holder Farmers Income; A Case of Cashew Nuts Farmers in Mtwara Region
… holder farmer’s income (case study cashew nuts farmers in Mtwara Region) More specifically, the study intended to analyze the relationship between production, price, storage and cashew nuts farmers income increase at Mtwara region to analyze the relationship between policy made for Warehouse …
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Don’t Count on Kiwis at a Kiwi Farmers’ Market: Communicating Intersections of Globalization and Local Food at Aotearoa New Zealand Farmers’ Markets
… this study seeks to understand how New Zealand farmers’ markets represent and engage with <em>global</em> and <em>local</em> issues in relation to food production, distribution, and consumption. Under this question, three sub-questions seek to understand the discourses present at the markets, …
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Resilience of small-scale farmers amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic: a case study of small-scale farmers in Limpopo Province, South Africa
… the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on small-scale farmers in Limpopo, South Africa. The closure of various market channels such as street vendors, restaurants, hotels and large social gatherings by the government left these farmers susceptible to market shocks, given their reliance on these …
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Management Structure Impact on Economic Success of Farmers Markets
Farmers markets have been a part of the food industry in the United States for almost as long as history (Webber, 2010). With farmers markets increasing in popularity and numbers, a need exists to determine why some markets thrive while others fail. A review of literature yielded some regional …
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