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2. Effects of teenage pregnancies on child malnutrition in low and middle-income countries
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- K., Osei Jonathan (author), U., Okoye Chinelo (author), C., Ajaero Ugochi (author), O., Brobbey Emmanuel (author), Juliana, Abalem (author), A., Abdulwahab Dhikrahllah (author), D., Akindele Folasade (author), and B., Nwachukwu Uju (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2024-09-30
- Published:
- India: P. Mondal
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13282
- Journal Title:
- Asian Journal of Food Research and Nutrition
- Journal Title Details:
- 3(4): 861-871
- Notes:
- 11 pages, Background: Teenage pregnancy is a major public health concern, especially in low- and middle-income countries, due to various social, economic and cultural influences on teenage girls. These pregnancies prove to have negative long-term effects on the health status of both the mother and the child where there are high risks of further complications and poor nutrition among the pregnant woman and the unborn child. Methodology: This review combined searches from databases such as PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar. The main languages of the included articles were restricted to English, and the themes for the search were limited to teenage pregnancies and child malnutrition. The selection criteria were studies published between 2010 and 2023, and peer-reviewed articles that involved adolescent mothers between the ages of 10-19 years and different child nutrition outcomes. Results: This study shows that teenage mothers are more likely to suffer some pregnancy complications, such as anaemia, which is made worse by poor maternal diets. These complications result in poor child health outcomes including stunting, wasting and low birth weight. The review revealed influential factors related to teenagers’ pregnancy including poverty, illiteracy, early marriage and unavailability of reproductive health facilities to all. Conversely, high-income countries record fewer incidences of these outcomes owing to improved and enhanced medical care services and social welfare provisions. Conclusion: Findings from this review underscore issues that require intervention such as; education on the broader aspects of sexual and reproductive health, access to healthcare services, socio-economic empowerment, and addressing cultural factors through community mobilization. The realization of these strategies can greatly enhance maternal and child health outcomes. Future research should incorporate longitudinal designs and employ panel data analysis to investigate other social and economic effects of teenage pregnancy.
3. Why has animal science not led to improved farm animal health and welfare?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sundrum, Albert (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2024-01-05
- Published:
- Switzerland: Frontiers
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 209 Document Number: D13548
- Journal Title:
- Frontiers in Animal Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 4
- Notes:
- 17 pages, o sustain the economic viability of a livestock farm in a global market, characterised by a price undercutting competition, farmers are forced to adapt to what the market demands. At the same time, they have to care for the functionality of the farm system as a whole and of the subsystems, such as the farm animals, so that they for their part they can contribute to an economic success. Now, that animal health and welfare (AHW) has become an increasingly important issue for citizens and consumers, not only the decision makers but also the disciplines of animal science are challenged to improve an unsatisfying AHW level that has been neglected for long. However, to reduce AHW problems requires a quite different approach than to increase productive efficiency. A common sense can be assumed concerning the need to strive for an optimal cost-to-benefit ratio while balancing positive and negative impacts of production processes on economic and AHW target figures. However, what is often not adequately considered is the fact that economic and biological demands have to be balanced within a living system, e.g. in the individual animal and farm system. These function as the relevant reference systems in all cases where measures to reduce AHW problems are considered. Furthermore, there is a large gap of scientific knowledge, however, not in the traditional sense. While the predominant approaches, scientists generate context-invariant, and thus generalisable disposal knowledge in diversified subdisciplines, problem solving requires contextualisation, orientation and action-guiding knowledge within transdisciplinary approaches. The reason is that AHW problems are highly context-sensitive as well as multifactorial. They develop within the farm specific interconnectedness of manifold and highly varying factors, emerging a complexity that does not allow predictive statements via inductive approaches but requires an iterative procedure to approach to a farm specific AHW level, which is balanced with the overarching goal of economic viability. Recommended action guiding knowledge has to be of high external and ecological validity, before farmers might consider it to be implemented in farm practice. From the reflection about the discrepancy between the knowledge needed to reduce AHW problems and what is offered by animal science, it is concluded that not only the farm systems but also the predominant approaches of animal science have to be transformed. Otherwise, there is not a big chance to considerably reduce AHW problems in farm animals.
4. FSIS launches new data tool: recall and public health alert API
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Food Safety and Inspection Service (author)
- Format:
- News release
- Publication Date:
- 2023-09-07
- Published:
- USA: U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12947
- Notes:
- 4 pages
5. Challenges to promote sustainability in urban agriculture models: a review
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Vigne Bennedetti, Luiza (author), Antônio de Almeida Sinisgalli, Paulo (author), Lamano Ferreira, Maurício (author), and Lemes de Oliveira, Fabiano (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-01-24
- Published:
- Netherlands: MDPI
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12839
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 20, Issue 3
- Notes:
- 14pgs, Urban agriculture (UA) can be used as an action to promote sustainability in cities and inform public health policies for urban populations. Despite this growing recognition, its implementation still presents challenges in countries in the Global North and Global South. Background: In this context, this systematic review aims to identify the development of frameworks for the implementation of UA as a sustainable action and its main opportunities and shortcomings in meeting urban socio-environmental demands. Methods: In this review, using the PRISMA protocol, we evaluated 26 studies on the interplay between UA and sustainability surveyed on the Web of Science to provide an overview of the state of the art. Conclusions: In summary, it was possible to identify many key challenges in UA adoption, which regard air and soil contamination, availability of green areas, layout of urban infrastructure, food distribution, among others. Due to numerous socio-economic and environmental contextual factors in cities, especially when comparing realities of the Global North and Global South, there is a need to develop a model that can be adaptable to these different contexts. Thus, it is recognized that the concept of sustainability does not present a universal understanding and that in its search it could be argued that one of the most important gaps is still to address social issues in relation to environmental ones.
6. ‘A public health crisis in the making’: agriculture pollutes underground drinking water in Minnesota. Well owners pay the price
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- McVan, Madison (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-01-12
- Published:
- United States: Investigate Midwest
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12824
- Journal Title:
- Investigate Midwest
- Journal Title Details:
- online
- Notes:
- 10pgs, More than 1 million Minnesotans drink from private wells but few know if their water is safe, experts said.
7. USDA begins process for stricter salmonella rules, worrying small poultry producers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Carlson, Claire (author)
- Format:
- online article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-12-13
- Published:
- United States: Daily Yonder
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12823
- Journal Title:
- Daily Yonder, The
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- 6pgs, Small producers won’t have the testing and control tools available to chicken-industry giants, some farmers say. That could give big producers one more advantage in a market where they already exercise a lot of control.
8. New research shows consumers trust farmers to protect produce safety
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Packer Staff (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-07-01
- Published:
- The Packer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D13431
- Notes:
- 3 pages
9. Values and risk perception shape Canadian dairy farmers' attitudes toward prudent use of antimicrobials
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cobo-Angel, Claudia (author), Gohar, Basem (author), and LeBlanc, Stephen J (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-04-20
- Published:
- Switzerland: MDPI
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 209 Document Number: D13443
- Journal Title:
- Antibiotics
- Journal Title Details:
- 11(5) : 550
- Notes:
- 15 pages, Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an important challenge in public health. Ensuring rational antimicrobial use (AMU) on farms is one of the key components of antimicrobial stewardship. We aimed to describe a sample of Canadian dairy farmers’ personal factors for AMUand their AMR risk perception, and to associate these factors with their attitude toward promotion of prudent AMU. We distributed an online survey among dairy farmers in Ontario and Atlantic Canada (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island). The questionnaire was designed to solicit information on dairy farmers’ AMU decision-making process, attitudes toward AMU reduction, awareness of AMR, and individual values. We performed a factor analysis on 15 statements related to AMR awareness and AMU reduction and used a logistic regression model to identify variables associated with the probability of disagreeing with the need to increase promotion of responsible AMU in the dairy industry. Respondents’ (n = 193) previous experience was the main reason to select an antimicrobial treatment for their cattle. We identified four groups of factors related to knowledge, risk perception, and emotional states among respondents. To the question “Should there be more initiatives to promote responsible use of antibiotics in the dairy industry?” 23% of respondents answered no, which was associated in a logistic regression model with being a farm owner, having a tie-stall barn, and considering their own experience as the most important factor in selecting antimicrobial treatments. The score for the conservation value dimension and score for a factor described as sense of responsibility when using antimicrobials were also retained in the final model. Our results indicate that tailored strategies to promote prudent AMU on dairy farms may be preferable to a generic strategy because there are individual differences in attitudes, values, and AMR awareness that shape AMR risk perception and willingness to modify current AMU practices.
10. Reporting a rural reality: a case study of an agricultural newspaper’s series on the rural opioid epidemic
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lawson, Cara R. (author), Meyers, Courtney (author), and Boren, Amy (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022
- Published:
- USA: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12606
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 106, N. 2
- Notes:
- 24pgs, Opioid drug abuse has created an epidemic recognized as a public health emergency in 2017, and the detrimental impacts of this epidemic have reached into rural America. When it comes to presenting information via the mass media, communications professionals serve as gatekeepers for what information is passed on to media consumers. Additionally, news organizations place certain degrees of importance upon issues through the amount of coverage dedicated to an issue. In late 2016, when the Farm and Dairy newspaper editorial staff decided to dedicate a vast amount of time and resources to covering Ohio and Pennsylvania’s rural opioid epidemic, a variety of questions and concerns followed. This complicated topic was largely unfamiliar and untraditional to agricultural communications. Concerns about how to research the topic, work with sources, and manage responses from stakeholders emerged at the onset, but motivations to increase awareness, reduce stigma, and instill hope in the midst of a rural opioid epidemic brought the series to fruition. This case study details the actions taken by those involved in the series and stakeholder reactions to a unique journalistic investigation from a rural newspaper. Discussion of recommendations for future research and curricular impacts are provided.