Reformulation of the millennium development goals comes at a time when their realization is falling short. ‘Development as usual’ through global goal setting in question context recent conjunction food, energy, and financial crises. Given evidence problematic world-scale restructuring, it puzzling that SDG visioning continues to assign principal responsibility states for post-2015 agenda. We regard this an epistemic blind spot foregoes opportunity reorient planning accommodate dimensions...

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a significant and widespread social problem concern for human health. The determinants of GBV are complex include many factors that sensitive to the impacts climate change. However, links between have been understudied relative other In this narrative review, we describe how change can shape incidence through its effects on physiology psychological well-being, economic natural resources, migration patterns, access critical infrastructure services. Empirical...

Abstract This article examines the reasons offered by New York dairy farmers for hiring undocumented immigrant workers in their milking parlors, and connects those discourses to broader economic cultural change U.S. agrarian society. Based on interviews with 25 22 farms, this farmers’ assessments of Amish, white non‐Amish, Puerto Rican, Latino labor pool. The analysis shows that consider immigrants most “reliable” workforce, reliability stems from deportability separation families, which...

This paper analyzes access to healthcare for undocumented Mexican and Central American immigrant farmworkers who live work in New York dairies. It assesses the regulatory framework – conjuncture of immigration, employment, occupational safety health laws which results workers' exposure workplace risks. also their resource environments, meaning whether how they gain medical services from actors public, private, third-party, informal sectors. The finds that there exist significant gaps...

As national borders tighten against undocumented migrants, agricultural employers throughout North America have pushed governments for easier access to a legalized temporary farm workforce. Some U.S. farmers and policymakers are seeking expand the country’s guest worker program (H-2A visa). Canada’s longstanding Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program has been proposed on an international scale as example of best practices because it fulfills employer demands stable workforce, enables state...

Abstract U.S. farmers are facing a widespread labor shortage. Previous literature on the causes, mostly written by agricultural economists, has focused macro‐economic and political factors that have reduced traditional supply from rural Latin America. In this article, we present sociological approach probes settlement of immigrant farmworkers in communities their associated family responsibilities as possible contributing to farm We conducted online questionnaires with 23 mushroom packing...

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a significant and widespread social problem concern for human health. The determinants of GBV are complex include many factors that sensitive to the impacts climate change. However, links between have been understudied relative other costs In this review, we describe how change can shape incidence GBV, in isolation through feedback loops, its effects on physiological psychological well-being, economic security, migration patterns, natural resource scarcity,...

This study analyses the relationships between labour migration and community perceptions of gender relations roles in Kyrgyzstan, second-most remittance-dependent economy world. Based on 591 surveys 34 qualitative interviews with adult household members At-Bashy rayon, we analysed decision-making processes as well women’s migration, patterns, associations divorce. We found that migrant women are praised for their economic contributions to households via remittances, yet also shamed by...

This paper analyzes how undocumented migrant farmworkers on New York dairies respond to workplace grievances. In the absence of meaningful recourse formal labor protections, Mexican and Guatemalan express their dissatisfaction a moral terrain. Building Hirschman's "Exit, Voice, Loyalty" framework, I argue that responses reveal gradation agency, from entrapment farms with unsupportive employers, constrained loyalty paternalistic farmers, exit dairy sector, private public use voice....

The purposes of this study were to analyze Latino/a immigrant mushroom workers' perceptions how the workplace environment shapes occupational safety and health, examine whether those differ by gender, identify future areas for research on health in industry. Researchers conducted structured interviews with 15 women 45 men 6 Pennsylvania farms obtain their descriptions perspectives risk factors workplaces. Approximately one third respondents had suffered an injury at work, nearly half felt...

Abstract This research examines the potential of gender‐transformative approaches (GTAs) to improve gender equality in agricultural extension programs and food security through experiential learning participatory methods. Scholars agriculture have long highlighted gap access resources; address this issue, development organizations integrated GTAs into their initiatives. The article presents an empirical case study a transformative‐farmer field school (GTA‐FFS) rural Honduras participants'...

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a significant and widespread social problem concern for human health. The determinants of GBV are complex include many factors that sensitive to the impacts climate change. However, links between have been understudied relative other In this narrative review, we describe how change can shape incidence through its effects on physiology psychological well-being, economic natural resources, migration patterns, access critical infrastructure services. Empirical...