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Leso Munala, Elizabeth M. Allen, Andrew J. Frederick and Anne Ngunjiri
Severe weather events can be a catalyst for intimate partner violence, particularly in agricultural settings. This research explores the association between weather and violence in parts of East Africa that rely on subsistence farming. We used IPUMS-DHS ...
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Camelia Teodorescu, Marin Burcea, Ana-Irina Lequeux-Dinca, Florentina-Cristina Merciu, Adrian-Nicolae Jipa and Laurentiu-Stefan Szemkovics
Food supply has been a constant source of concern for mankind. In the present context, with food security a priority of European and national policies, an analysis of pig farming in a representative NUTS2 administrative level of Romania that emphasizes t...
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Hope Mwanake, Bano Mehdi-Schulz, Karsten Schulz, Nzula Kitaka, Luke O. Olang, Jakob Lederer and Mathew Herrnegger
Poor agricultural practices among small-scale sub-Saharan African farmers can lead to soil erosion and reduce agricultural productivity. However, information on such practices is normally not well documented, making it challenging to design future mitiga...
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Håkan Berg, Deogratias Mulokozi and Lars Udikas
Aquaculture production in Tanzania has increased in recent years, responding to an increased demand for fish, but the scale and productivity of smallholder aquaculture remains below the level needed to support significant sector growth in Tanzania. This ...
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Ariane Krause and Vera Susanne Rotter
Residues from bioenergy and ecological sanitation (EcoSan) can be utilized to sustain soil fertility and productivity. With regard to certain cooking and sanitation technologies used in smallholder households (hh), we systematically analyzed how utilizat...
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Solomon Zitta Wuyep and Isaac Tebogo Rampedi
In most urban areas of sub-Saharan Africa, the migration of people from rural to urban areas in search of better socio-economic conditions and improved livelihoods is contributing to increased unemployment levels, poverty and large scale urban deprivatio...
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Sanzidur Rahman, Md. Abdul Matin and Md. Kamrul Hasan
Pulses are an important source of protein and have recently gained international prominence. This paper jointly identifies the determinants of improved variety adoption, productivity and efficiency of 2700 pulse producers from 10 pulse-growing districts ...
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Wendso Awa Agathe Ouédraogo, James Messo Raude and John Mwangi Gathenya
The Mkurumudzi River originates in the Shimba hills and runs through Kwale County on the Kenyan Coast. Study on this river has been informed by the many economic activities that the river supports, which include sugarcane plantations, mining, tourism and...
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Muhammad Abid, Grace Ngaruiya, Jürgen Scheffran and Farhad Zulfiqar
Incorporating adaptation into subsistence farming systems is an important strategy to reduce damages related to climate change and to protect livelihoods in developing countries. Using a dataset of 450 farm households collected from three agro-ecological...
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Douglas B. Reynolds
Arthur Lewis (1954) classic article on duel labor markets suggests that subsistence labor, due to high fertility and overpopulation, causes low wages. Basu (1999) and Dessy (2000) show a compelling theory for high fertility in developing countries ...
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