نتایج جستجو برای: women farmers
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INTRODUCTION Farm health and safety has historically focussed on strategies such as injury prevention, safety audits and fulfilling legislative responsibilities. However, farmer injuries mask deeper health issues including higher rates of cancer, suicides, cardiovascular disease and stress. The relationship between occupational health and safety and farm family health has not been fully investi...
Female farming systems draws attention to women’s (re)productive roles in agriculture, with particular attention to questions of power, equity, and empowerment. Female farming systems as an organizing concept highlights what was a surprisingly neglected field of study until the 1970s and provides insights into the gendered nature of agriculture. In the past and the present the term “farmer” pre...
Women farmers’ vulnerability due to low access resources, reduced soil fertility, and the inability of farmers obtain added value in market causes poverty upwards among women farmers. Empowerment is an essential concern improve their quality life. This study aims analyse process empowering organic farming models Participatory Guarantee System for standards. The was conducted by taking case comm...
The social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum is unusual among eukaryotes in having both unicellular and multicellular stages. In the multicellular stage, some cells, called sentinels, ingest toxins, waste and bacteria. The sentinel cells ultimately fall away from the back of the migrating slug, thus removing these substances from the slug. However, some D. discoideum clones (called farmers) carry...
BACKGROUND Some epidemiologic and laboratory studies suggest that insecticides are related to increased breast cancer risk, but the evidence is inconsistent. Women engaged in agricultural work or who reside in agricultural areas may experience appreciable exposures to a wide range of insecticides. OBJECTIVE We examined associations between insecticide use and breast cancer incidence among wiv...
Abstract Understanding the gender dimension of climate change perception and choice adaptation strategies is crucial for policy recommendations that foster development integration gender-responsive climate-smart agricultural interventions into programs. This study determined differences in between men women farmers Cinzana Segou region Mali. The used questionnaire interviews involving 260 (49% ...
Three New York State agencies undertook a state-wide initiative in 2001 to enhance the effectiveness of the Special Supplemental Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) for both families and farmers. The program enhancements included four components intended to influence market and consumer behavior: hiring a state-wide Cornell Cooperative Extensi...
The rise in blood pressure with age is a major risk factor for cardiovascular and renal disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Age-related increases in blood pressure have been observed in almost every population, except among hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists. Here we tested for age-related increases in blood pressure among Tsimane forager-farmers. We also test whether lifest...
The mobile phone technology is an important tool to enhance farmers’ access to better paying agricultural markets. The study reports the results of a household study in Mwanza, Dedza and Mzimba Districts of Malawi. The study assesses drivers of adoption of mobile phone technology for agricultural marketing by smallholder farmers. The study used regression techniques to identify drivers and exte...
This paper explores the linkages between gender, local knowledge systems and agrobiodiversity for food security by using the case study of LinKS, a regional FAO project in Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Tanzania over a period of eight years and now concluded. The project aimed to raise awareness on how rural men and women use and manage agrobiodiversity, and to promote the importance of lo...
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