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“The people of Techiman eat Teporo”: migrant farming and epistemic pluralism in Forikrom, Ghana “Techiman的人吃Teporo”：加纳Forikrom的移民农业和知识多元化

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-025-10729-w

Branwen Peddi, Nana Kwaw Adams, David Ludwig, Joost Dessein

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Solidarity finance and food democracy in civic food networks in Australia: what role for ‘citizen-financiers’? 澳大利亚公民食品网络中的团结金融和食品民主：“公民金融家”的角色是什么？

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-025-10708-1

Kiah Smith, Daniel Cruz, Zannie Langford

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Tending our shared garden: imagining carceral food justice in a Florida prison 照料我们共享的花园：想象佛罗里达州监狱里的囚犯食物正义

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-025-10728-x

Sarah E. Cramer

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Relocalising agriculture and renewing agrobiodiversity in the Western Italian Alps through co-creation of agroecological knowledge and practices 通过共同创造农业生态知识和实践，重新定位意大利西部阿尔卑斯山的农业和农业生物多样性

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-025-10730-3

Chiara Flora Bassignana, Gabriele Volpato, Paola Migliorini

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Correction to: Unpacking farmers’ multiple values in grapevine variety choice 修正：解开农民在葡萄品种选择中的多重价值

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-025-10740-1

Antoine Doncieux, Marilou Demongeot, Kenneth Iain MacDonald, Delphine Renard, Sophie Caillon

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What does it mean to care in industrial agriculture? 在工业化农业中照料意味着什么？

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-025-10709-0

Diana Mincytė, Aistė Bartkienė, Renata Bikauskaitė, Ieva Šakelaitė, Pia Piroschka Otte

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Landraces and climate change: global trends through the lens of political agroecology 地方种族与气候变化：政治农业生态学视角下的全球趋势

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-025-10721-4

Laura Calvet-Mir, Petra Benyei, Anna Porcuna-Ferrer, Laura Aceituno-Mata, André Braga Junqueira, Giulia Mattalia, Sara Miñarro, Victoria Reyes-García, Anna Schlingmann, Julia Vieira da Cunha Ávila, Vanesse Labeyrie

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From grains to berries: causes and consequences of crop portfolio changes in four mountain agroecosystems in the Iberian Peninsula 从谷物到浆果：伊比利亚半岛四个山地农业生态系统作物组合变化的原因和后果

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-025-10726-z

Petra Benyei, Laura Aceituno-Mata, Joana Blanch-Ramirez, Laura Franco, Laura Levy, Antonio Perdomo-Molina, Laura Calvet-Mir

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Unpacking farmers’ multiple values in grapevine variety choice 揭示农民在葡萄品种选择中的多重价值

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-025-10718-z

Antoine Doncieux, Marilou Demongeot, Kenneth Iain MacDonald, Delphine Renard, Sophie Caillon

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Communal resource management, morality, and economic development: a case of pastureland management in Mongolia 公共资源管理、道德与经济发展：以蒙古牧场管理为例

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-025-10722-3

Shunji Oniki, Kadirbyek Dagys, Go Sakamoto

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