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The State of Mental Health Support in Climate Emergencies

NonProfit Quarterly

In its brief, the WHO traced the impact of prolonged droughts, which “ significantly disrupt agricultural production and lead to loss of livelihood, leaving many communities in poverty, a factor clearly linked with many common mental disorders.” This, in turn, can lead to forced migration as families attempt to flee conflict.

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Exposed and at Risk: New Report Shows Farms Do Little to Protect Workers from Harm

NonProfit Quarterly

Exposed and At Risk: Opportunities to Strengthen Enforcement of Pesticide Regulations for Farmworker Safety was recently released by the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law and Graduate School, in partnership with the nonprofit Farmworker Justice. “You just have to put on a mask and take care of yourself the best you can.”

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Donor Cultivation: A Term We’re Using Out of Context

iMarketSmart

So let’s remind ourselves that cultivation is a term used to describe a phase in a larger agricultural cycle. We must put the cultivation back in its agricultural context. And, when they have given, we must remember another agricultural tenet – the importance of letting a field lie fallow until it naturally regenerates.

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In Ukraine: Eco-Crimes and Anxiety as the War Drags On

NonProfit Quarterly

Soroka said he had collected information that Russia plans to “reverse the river and direct its water into canals to irrigate agricultural fields. It’s a lot of psychological problems, not only [for] scientists, it’s for all people.” However, the environmental impacts of the war in Zaporizhzhia are not limited to the plant.

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The Transformative Potential of Sabbaticals: What Field Research Reveals

NonProfit Quarterly

Termed שמיטה ( shmita , literally “release”) in the Torah, Jewish law mandated that every seven years, all agricultural activity cease: “The land must be given a rest period, a sabbath to God” (Leviticus 25: 1–7). and “How do sabbaticals impact individuals after their return?” The earliest sabbaticals were intended for rest and recovery.

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What Will It Take to Reimagine Security?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Rather than funding climate adaptation and food security separately, funders could support Indigenous-led initiatives that combine traditional ecological knowledge with modern agricultural innovation to build both climate resilience and food sovereignty.

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Changemakers, Disruptors, and Protectors of Our Earth: Young Women and Girls of the Global Majority Leading Climate Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Such displacement and abuses can result in deep psychological burdens as young women navigate the traumas of both systemic oppression and the impacts of the climate crisis. Many women work in sectors like agriculture that require less formal education and are particularly sensitive to climate change.