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Humusaufbau within German-speaking regenerative farming communities in Switzerland and Austria 在瑞士和奥地利讲德语的再生农业社区中发现的Humusaufbau

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Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2026-08-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-026-10947-w

Juliana Jäggle, Tim Schmid, Magdalena Tanner, Gernot Bodner, Katharina Keiblinger, Bernhard Scharf, Sophie van Geijtenbeek, Olivier Ejderyan

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Translating care in defensive times: We are not here to take over; we are here to take care 在防御时期传递关怀：我们不是来接管的；我们是来照顾的

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Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2026-08-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-026-10860-2

Kirsten Valentine Cadieux

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Farming, race, and repair in the United States 美国的农业、种族和修理

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Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2026-08-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-026-10939-w

Stephen Carpenter

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Celebrations of the nourishing and reconciling methods of Brother Melvin Giles, Elder Peace, as shared by the community organizations he loved and mentored 庆祝和平长老Melvin Giles弟兄的滋养与和解的方法，与他所热爱和指导的社区组织分享

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Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2026-08-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-026-10929-y

Kirsten Valentine Cadieux

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The permaculture movement and the global south: towards a democratised agroecological knowledge project 永续农业运动与全球南方：迈向一个民主化的农业生态知识计划

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Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2026-08-06 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-026-10945-y

Anuradha Alahakoon, Bertram Jenkins, Rhiannon Smith, Nick Reid

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Generational differences in farming: impacts on workplace relationships and mental health 农业代际差异：对职场关系和心理健康的影响

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Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2026-08-06 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-026-10941-2

Amanda Hay, Nicky Stanley-Clarke, Jorie Knook, Katie Bardsley

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The social life of sustainability incentives: recognition infrastructures and the politics of change in a soil health program 社会生活的可持续发展激励：认识基础设施和政治变化的土壤健康计划

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Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2026-08-06 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-026-10946-x

Michael Carolan, Adam Snitker, James Hale

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Towards critical food systems education: perspectives of public-school students in rural Chiapas, Mexico 迈向关键粮食系统教育：墨西哥恰帕斯州农村公立学校学生的视角

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Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2026-08-04 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-026-10919-0

Hope Davies Fisher, Bruce G. Ferguson, Juliana Merçon, Antonio Saldívar Moreno

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Understanding the multi-dimensional structure of the food citizenship concept 理解食品公民概念的多维结构

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Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2026-08-04 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-026-10915-4

L. Timotijevic, C. Jenkinson, C. Fife-Schaw, L. Mohebati, M. M. Raats, C. Hodgkins, H. Rodrigues, G. M. Breakwell

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“The win-win is we need to talk about it”: how U.S. and Canadian food system actors navigate trade-offs in food system transformation “双赢是我们需要谈论的”：美国和加拿大食品系统参与者如何在食品系统转型中进行权衡

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Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2026-08-04 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-026-10927-0

Jessica Barth, Safura Abdool Karim, Anne Barnhill, Katelyn Esmonde

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