Addiction
Study finds women farm owners more apt to binge drink
A study from the University of Georgia reveals a concerning pattern of binge drinking among women who own or manage farms.
Jan 24, 2024
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Health
Pediatricians' group offers parents advice on GMO foods
Some parents are concerned about the effects of genetically modified foods on their children's health.
Dec 11, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study explores risk factors for suicide in farmers
A new University of Alberta study exploring the risk factors that make farmers vulnerable to suicide could help them build better resilience.
Oct 24, 2023
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WHO backs farmers to grow food instead of tobacco
The World Health Organization said Friday it was helping a growing number of farmers turn away from tobacco to help strengthen food security, particularly in Africa.
May 26, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
What is driving the high suicide rate among farmers?
Josie Rudolphi is a professor of agricultural and biological engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign whose research examined suicide among farmers and ranchers, as well as the mental health of their children. ...
Dec 13, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Mental health support for UK farmers needs radical overhaul, say researchers
Farmers facing worsening mental health problems are experiencing what researchers call a strained "landscape of support" in rural areas.
Dec 8, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Offering health care services at livestock marts can help remove stigma of seeking help among agricultural community
Offering health care services in livestock marts can help to take away the stigma associated with seeking help for physical and mental health issues among members of the agricultural community, research shows.
Sep 27, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Video: Feeling the heat: Climate change and a kidney disease mystery
In Sri Lanka, a rash of kidney disease is affecting farmers who grow rice in marshy parts of the island. Professor Nishad Jayasundara of the Nicholas School of the Environment and the Duke Global Health Institute. (DGHI) ...
Sep 26, 2022
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Health
Living near fumigant-using farms could increase cancer risk
Around the world, farmers each year coat their fields in hundreds of millions of pounds of herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and fumigants. These chemical treatments effectively take care of crop-damaging pests, but many ...
Jul 19, 2022
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Busy mothers did less breastfeeding in 19th century Netherlands: study
A 19th century rural Dutch village had unusually low rates of breastfeeding, likely because mothers were busy working, according to a study published April 13, 2022 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Andrea L. Waters-Rist ...
Apr 13, 2022
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Farmer
A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, who raises living organisms for food or raw materials, generally including livestock husbandry and growing crops, such as produce and grain. A farmer might own the farmed land or might work as a labourer on land owned by others, but in advanced economies, a farmer is usually a farm owner, while employees of the farm are farm workers, farmhands, etc.
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