Browsing by Subject "Barriers"

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    Growing Potential: An Analysis of Legal and Policy Barriers Faced by Women in Horticulture in Guatemala, Nepal, Tanzania, & Zambia
    (Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 2013-05-24) Collinson, Erin; Habeel, Nadine; Jawaid, Fatima; Jean, Laura; Williams, Kari
    In 2009 the Horticulture Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) at the University of California, Davis was established as part of an effort to reduce rural poverty and chronic malnutrition. Horticulture production provides individuals and families with the opportunity to better their social and economic circumstances through income generation and improved nutrition and health. However, in both agriculture and horticulture women in many developing countries earn lower wages and have access to fewer resources compared to men, despite the fact that women provide much of the labor in these sectors. To support the work of the Horticulture CRSP this report identifies barriers that have the potential to limit the benefits of horticulture production for rural women in four countries: Guatemala, Nepal, Tanzania, and Zambia. This report is divided into two components: a general overview covering broad findings and offering recommendations, and country specific analyses that offer more targeted research and recommendations for each of the study countries.
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    Identifying the Factors that Constrain and Facilitate the Adoption of Agroforestry Practices by Minnesota and Wisconsin Agricultural Producers
    (2024-05) Benning, Maxwell
    Agroforestry practices are agricultural and natural resource management systems in which trees are incorporated with agricultural crops and/or livestock. Agroforestry practices, particularly windbreaks, silvopasture, alley cropping, riparian forest buffers, forest farming, and living snow fences, provide a variety of environmental, economic, and social benefits to agricultural communities and landscapes. Despite the services these systems offer, only 1.9% of farmers in Minnesota and Wisconsin adopted at least one agroforestry practice by 2022. The purpose of this research was to identify the constraints to agroforestry adoption and opportunities to increase adoption by agricultural producers in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Following producer interviews and a comprehensive review of the agroforestry adoption literature, three rounds of a mail survey were sent to producers in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The survey collected data regarding current adoption of agroforestry practices, information on acceptable incentives and limiting constraints, the likelihood of adopting each practice, and demographic information. Binary logistic regressions were performed to identify the constraints, opportunities, and demographic data that significantly influenced the likelihood of adoption for each practice. The results indicate that windbreak adoption is enhanced by financial assistance programs, aesthetic values, and an alignment with producers' goals. Silvopasture adoption is enhanced by a minimization of competition between trees and forage, an alignment with producers' goals, and the lack of a woodlot on the farm. Alley cropping adoption is enhanced by technical assistance, aesthetic values, and a compatibility with the producers’ management and equipment and is likely to be adopted by younger producers and those with smaller farms. Riparian forest buffer adoption is enhanced by financial assistance programs and colleagues adopting riparian forest buffers. Forest farming adoption is enhanced by technical assistance, a compatibility with the producers’ management and equipment, and the presence of a woodlot. Finally, living snow fence adoption is enhanced by an alignment with producers' goals, the availability to manage trees, profit opportunities from the living snow fence, and colleagues adopting living snow fences. Natural resource technical assistance providers and policymakers can use these results to remove barriers and improve incentives for agroforestry practices, promoting agroforestry adoption among Minnesota and Wisconsin agricultural producers.
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    Student-Athlete and Athletic Trainer: The Mental Health Relationship
    (2017-05) Sykora, Jessica L
    Each year, thousands of student-athletes participate in collegiate athletics. Participation in collegiate athletics offers distinguishing advantages, such as apparel, endorsements, social prestige, money and popularity. Despite the privileges, studentathletes are not immune to mental health illnesses and conditions. The unique pressures and demands directly impact the physical, psychological, social, behavioral, and emotional health and well-being of the student-athlete. It is important to understand the barriers, as well as the facilitators, toward mental health help-seeking that have resulted student-athletes being underserved and underrepresented. An essential component to improving the recognition and management of student-athlete mental health is the understanding of the athlete-athletic trainer relationship and the perception of the athletic trainer as a mental health resource.
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    What are the barriers and facilitators of on-time measles vaccination in Uganda?
    (2021-05) Griffith, Bridget
    Measles is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease, and on-time vaccination is essential for achieving the full benefit of measles-containing vaccines. In recent years, Uganda has experienced measles outbreaks in both urban and rural areas. Investigating the prevalence of and risk factors associated with delayed measles vaccination is an important step toward addressing vaccination barriers and improving on-time measles vaccination coverage. This dissertation characterizes factors associated with on-time measles vaccination in Uganda, defined as vaccination at nine months of age.For manuscript 1 and 2, we conducted a population-based, door-to-door survey of 999 mothers living in Kampala, Uganda. The survey included questions on mothers’ use of their child’s vaccination document, experience seeking vaccination for their child, and the child’s date of measles vaccination. In manuscript 1, we characterized mothers’ retention and use of their child’s vaccination document and evaluated the association between use of the document and achieving on-time measles vaccination for their child. In manuscript 2, we described and characterized potential transportation-related barriers to vaccination and evaluated the association between these barriers and mothers’ ability to achieve on-time measles vaccination for their child. Lastly, for manuscript 3, we used data from the 2016 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey to assess the relationship between mothers’ perceived barriers to healthcare and their ability to achieve on-time measles vaccination for their child. This was evaluated overall, and by urban/rural status. Demographic factors of the mother and child and certain barriers to healthcare were associated with failure to achieve on-time measles vaccination. Overall, our findings contribute to the understanding of the specific factors that influence on-time measles vaccination in this setting. This informs the design of interventions to improve the timing of childhood vaccinations in the future.