Gressel, Christie M Rashed, Tarek Maciuika, Laura Aswati Sheshadri, Srividya Coley, Christopher Kongeseri, Sreeram Bhavani, Rao R
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•Women's empowerment interventions are not as effective as hoped or intended.•Could be an issue with intervention design and implementation.•Research reveals that there are several limitations to existing women's empowerment approaches.•These include disregard of context, a non-holistic approach, difficulty measuring variables, etc.•Vulnerability m...
Schweik, Charles M Meyer, Carl Chinkondenji, Pempho Smith, Jeremy Mchenga, Promise
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World Librarians is a socio-technical system that strives to solve the information access problem many remote offline schools and libraries have in lesser developed contexts. In this Case Report, we describe the system we have developed over the course of three years, where we first establish solar-powered computer labs in remote schools and librar...
Jurjonas, Matthew Aldana, Lesly
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The Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change outline mitigation goals by sector. However, this framing is likely to create climate justice issues as it does not explicitly address the contributions of individuals. High emissions from luxury activities like commercial air travel are addressed with voluntary and b...
Odei Erdiaw-Kwasie, Michael Abunyewah, Matthew Edusei, Joseph Buernor Alimo, Emmanuel
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Citizen participation in decision-making on water-related initiatives offers a valuable pathway to move towards a more equitable and sustainable water delivery, now and into the future. However, given the acknowledged impacts of active citizen participation in the water governance process, there is an increase institutional search for ideal approac...
Asiedu, Edward Sadekla, Sylvester S. Bokpin, Godfred A.
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The formation of physical capital in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in agriculture is imperative to help the continent (1) overcome the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on food insecurity and (2) still be on track towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of “ No poverty ” and “ Zero hunger” in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using co...
Moeis, Faizal Rahmanto Dartanto, Teguh Moeis, Jossy Prananta Ikhsan, Mohamad
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The conventional wisdom of Arthur Lewis’s dual sector model says that households in the agricultural (traditional) sector who can move out to a non-agricultural (modern) sector will become better off. We then scrutinize the last three waves of the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) to analyze the existence of the dual theorem. Our study uses Diffe...
Kherbache, Nabil Oukaci, Kamal
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This paper studies sanitation policy in Algeria by conducting an assessment of the capital expenditure on sanitation improvements between 2000 and 2018. It focuses on the period of implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) between 2000 and 2015 and the first years of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from 2016 to 2018. The pa...
Libertun de Duren, Nora Ruth
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Teklewold, Hailemariam Adam, Rahma I. Marenya, Paswel
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Understanding the process that underpins the effective and equitable adoption of modern crop varieties remains an imperative for agricultural development in Africa. This study examines gender differences in adoption rates and determinants of the decision to adopt drought-tolerant (DT) and non-drought-tolerant (ND) maize varieties, based on analysis...
Railey, Ashley F. Lankester, Felix Lembo, Tiziana Reeve, Richard Shirima, Gabriel Marsh, Thomas L.
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• Compared to vaccination, the collective approach to diagnostic testing presents a low-fixed cost. • Existing household livestock-health behaviors increase the likelihood for uptake of preventative health practices. • Initial evidence to support household investments in livestock preventative health over therapeutic treatments.
