Fieldwork on a commercial farm in southern Zambia, which was aimed at designing an HIV prevention program for farm workers, gradually exposed the nature of sexual liaisons between young girls, coming to work on the farm from the surrounding villages, and older migrant men workers. Before completing fieldwork, the anthropologist voiced her concern about the implications of these liaisons for the...

Organic farmers make system-level crop protection decisions that combine complementary insect, disease, nematode, and weed management strategies. Data from a national survey of U.S. organic farmers were used in a multivariate count data model to identify the farm and regional factors influencing adoption across the linked pest management categories. The results showed that weed management requi...

Nowadays, different types of farm management information systems (FMIS) are being used in practice several sectors farming, such as dairy, arable, fruits, vegetables, and meat farming. The goal this research is to identify, evaluate, synthesize existing FMISs the Dutch dairy sector present state–of–the–art. We performed a multivocal literature review (MLR) find sources both scientific grey lite...