How do we retain teachers? Supporting them to work together could help
Australia is in the grips of a teacher shortage "crisis" according to Education Minister Jason Clare.
Social Sciences
Nov 7, 2023
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News tagged with rural development
America's farmers are getting older, and young people aren't rushing to join them
On Oct. 12, National Farmers' Day, Americans honor the hardworking people who keep the world fed and clothed.
Agriculture
Oct 11, 2023
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Sexual violence is a pervasive threat for female farm workers—here's how the US could reduce their risk
Television crime shows often are set in cities, but in its third season, ABC's "American Crime" took a different tack. It opened on a tomato farm in North Carolina, where it showed a young woman being brutally raped in a ...
Social Sciences
Jul 31, 2023
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Opening farms to visitors boosts nearby farms' direct sales, and vice versa
Farmers use many marketing strategies to diversify their incomes and stay in business. New research suggests that two of these strategies—agritourism and direct farm sales—complement one another when they occur within ...
Agriculture
Apr 19, 2023
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The hidden role of food in urban conflicts in Central America
Extreme water events have been shown to affect human security in many ways. In a research article published today in the new journal Nature Water researchers from Politecnico di Milano and University of California at Berkeley ...
Social Sciences
Apr 6, 2023
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Rural educators find solutions to support multilingual learners
A new study has found that a professional development program helped teachers in a rural school district in the Southeast to collaborate and identify innovative solutions to serve multilingual learners, or students learning ...
Education
Mar 28, 2023
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Developing countries pay the highest price for living with large carnivores, finds study
A team of researchers has highlighted human-wildlife conflict as one of the globe's most pressing human development and conservation dilemmas.
Ecology
Feb 24, 2023
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The war in Ukraine could trigger a land investment rush as happened during the 2008 financial crisis
One year after the start of the war in Ukraine, researchers Maria Cristina Rulli of the Politecnico di Milano, Jampel Dell'Angelo of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Paul D'Odorico of the University of California at Berkeley, ...
Economics & Business
Feb 24, 2023
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Conflicts of interest need to be avoided in publishing publicly available crop information, says study
Satellite-driven crop monitoring has become a main method to derive crop information at local, regional and global scales.
Biotechnology
Feb 24, 2023
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Water buybacks are back on the table in the Murray-Darling Basin. Here's a refresher on how they work
The federal government has announced a new round of strategic water buybacks in the Murray-Darling Basin. The government intends to purchase water entitlements from voluntary sellers in parts of New South Wales and Queensland.
Earth Sciences
Feb 24, 2023
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