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Urban food governance without local food: missing links between Czech post-socialist cities and urban food alternatives 没有地方粮食的城市粮食治理：捷克后社会主义城市与城市粮食替代品之间缺失的联系

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2024-04-24 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-024-10567-2

Michaela Pixová, Christina Plank

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Motivations, changes and challenges of participating in food-related social innovations and their transformative potential: three cases from Berlin (Germany) 参与食品相关社会创新的动机、变化和挑战及其变革潜力：柏林（德国）的三个案例

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2024-04-24 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-024-10561-8

Felix Zoll, Alexandra Harder, Lerato Nyaradzo Manatsa, Jonathan Friedrich

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Landscape discourses and rural transformations: insights from the Dutch Dune and Flower Bulb Region 景观话语与农村变革：荷兰沙丘和花球地区的启示

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2024-04-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-024-10559-2

Susan de Koning

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Relationships of regeneration in Great Plains commodity agriculture 大平原商品农业的再生关系

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2024-04-11 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-024-10558-3

Julie Snorek, Susanne Freidberg, Geneva Smith

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Correction: Exploring diverse food system actor perspectives on gene editing: a systematic review of socio-cultural factors influencing acceptability 更正：探索食品系统参与者对基因编辑的不同看法：对影响可接受性的社会文化因素的系统回顾

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2024-04-11 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-024-10569-0

Katie Henderson, Bodo Lang, Joya Kemper, Denise Conroy

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No farm is an island: constrained choice, landscape thinking, and ecological insect management among Wisconsin farmers 没有农场是一座孤岛：威斯康星州农民的受限选择、景观思维和生态昆虫管理

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2024-04-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-024-10571-6

Benjamin Iuliano

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Making sense of farmland biodiversity management: an evaluation of a farmland biodiversity management communication strategy with farmers 了解农田生物多样性管理：对农田生物多样性管理与农民沟通战略的评估

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2024-04-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-024-10573-4

Aoife Leader, James Kinsella, Richard O’Brien

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Adoption of smart farm networks: a translational process to inform digital agricultural technologies 采用智能农场网络：为数字农业技术提供信息的转化过程

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2024-04-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-024-10566-3

Barituka Bekee, Michelle S. Segovia, Corinne Valdivia

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The ‘Good Kiwi’ and the ‘Good Environmental Citizen’?: Dairy, national identity and complex consumption-related values in Aotearoa New Zealand 好猕猴桃 "和 "环保好公民"？新西兰奥特亚罗瓦的乳制品、民族身份和复杂的消费相关价值观

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-024-10564-5

E. L. Sharp, A. Rayne, N. Lewis

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Transforming the food system in ‘unprotected space’: the case of diverse grain networks in England 在 "不受保护的空间 "改造粮食系统：英格兰多样化谷物网络的案例

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2024-03-25 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-023-10535-2

Stephanie Walton

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