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Producer and consumer perspectives on supporting and diversifying local food systems in central Iowa 生产者和消费者对支持爱荷华州中部地方食品体系并使之多样化的看法

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Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2023-09-23 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-023-10504-9

Michael C. Dorneich, Caroline C. Krejci, Nicholas Schwab, Tiffanie F. Stone, Erin Huckins, Janette R. Thompson, Ulrike Passe

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Producers’ transition to alternative food practices in rural China: social mobilization and cultural reconstruction in the formation of alternative economies 中国农村生产者向替代性食品生产方式的转变：替代性经济形成过程中的社会动员和文化重建

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Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2023-09-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-023-10509-4

Qian Forrest Zhang

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Rebalance power and strengthen farmers’ position in the EU food system? A CDA of the Farm to Fork Strategy 重新平衡权力，加强农民在欧盟食品体系中的地位？从农场到餐桌战略的 CDA

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2023-09-18 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-023-10508-5

Aziz Omar, Martin Hvarregaard Thorsøe

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Chinese food self-provisioning: key sustainability policy lessons hidden in plain sight 中餐自给自足：可持续发展政策的关键经验蕴藏其中

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Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2023-09-14 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-023-10506-7

Petr Jehlička, Huidi Ma, Tomáš Kostelecký, Joe Smith

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Unpacking gender mainstreaming: a critical discourse analysis of agricultural and rural development policy in Myanmar and Nepal 拆解性别主流化:缅甸和尼泊尔农业和农村发展政策的批判性话语分析

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Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2023-09-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-023-10502-x

Dawn D. Cheong, Bettina Bock, Dirk Roep

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Reinventing the meal: a genealogy of plant-based alternative proteins 重塑膳食：植物替代蛋白质的谱系

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Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2023-09-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-023-10496-6

Elan Louis Abrell

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Biotechnology activism is dead; long live biotechnology activism! The lure and legacy of market-based food movement strategies 生物技术激进主义已经消亡；生物技术行动主义万岁！基于市场的粮食运动战略的诱惑和遗留问题

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2023-09-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-023-10501-y

Gabriela Pechlaner

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Observing farm plots to increase attentiveness and cooperation with nature: a case study in Belgium 观察农田以提高对自然的关注和合作：比利时的一个案例研究

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Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-023-10497-5

Margaux Alarcon, Pascal Marty

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Perceptions and sociocultural factors underlying adoption of conservation agriculture in the Mediterranean 地中海采用保护性农业的观念和社会文化因素

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Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-023-10495-7

Emmeline Topp, Mohamed El Azhari, Harun Cicek, Hatem Cheikh M’Hamed, Mohamed Zied Dhraief, Oussama El Gharras, Jordi Puig Roca, Cristina Quintas-Soriano, Laura Rueda Iáñez, Abderrahmane Sakouili, Meriem Oueslati Zlaoui, Tobias Plieninger

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African indigenous vegetables, gender, and the political economy of commercialization in Kenya 非洲本土蔬菜，性别和肯尼亚商业化的政治经济

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Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2023-08-27 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-023-10498-4

Sarah Hackfort, Christoph Kubitza, Arnold Opiyo, Anne Musotsi, Susanne Huyskens-Keil

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