Suryani, Dewi Amanatun Purwanto, Purwanto Purnaweni, Hartuti Yuniningsih, Tri
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E3S Web of Conferences
Increasing public awareness of the environment and the development of rural tourism has attracted researchers' interest in conducting studies on ecotourism in rural areas. Many tourist villages use the ecotourism concept in developing their tourism. It is hoped that the development of tourist villages will be able to encourage the realization of su...
Koo, Jawoo
Agricultural extension services play a crucial role in supporting 570 million small-scale farmers worldwide, contributing to food security and rural development through the dissemination of technical advice and best practices. These vital services, however, often face significant challenges, including weak institutional capacity, inadequate reach, ...
Meijaard, Erik Unus, Nabillah Ariffin, Thina Dennis, Rona Ancrenaz, Marc Wich, Serge Wunder, Sven Goh, Chun Sheng Sherman, Julie Ogwu, Matthew C.
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Frontiers in Conservation Science
Non-human great apes – chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, and orangutans – are threatened by agricultural expansion, particularly from rice, cacao, cassava, maize, and oil palm cultivation. Agriculture replaces and fragments great ape habitats, bringing them closer to humans and often resulting in conflict. Though the impact of agriculture on great ap...
Shakya, Shristi Durga, Neha Alvi, Muzna Singh, Tushar Ringler, Claudia
Across South Asia, gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) are widely acknowledged as vital pillars of a just transition to renewable energy. So why do men continue to make most decisions regarding energy use? This was the conundrum grappled with by the latest NEXUS Gains webinar, Gender and Energy: Measures to accelerate equity and social incl...
Shakya, Shristi Durga, Neha Alvi, Muzna Singh, Tushar Ringler, Claudia
Access by women and marginalized groups to clean energy services and green technologies remains constrained by women’s social position and gender norms as well as gender-blind energy policies and institutions. The cost to women’s well-being and rural economic growth from inequitable access, policies, and institutions are considerable but seldom ass...
Kalantari, Naser Abdollahi, Morteza Amiri, Parisa Zayeri, Farid Ezzeddin, Neda
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Introduction Nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA) is a comprehensive, inter-sectoral approach to improve food security and nutrition. In Iran, “National Nutrition Improvement Program in Rural and Nomadic Women” has been developed and implemented as a NSA program. The main purpose of this study was analysis of this program using the Policy Triangle...
Weerdt, Joachim d Cappellen, Hanne van
In a recent IFPRI working paper, Van Cappellen and De Weerdt (2023), we show how urban growth reduces underemployment in the rural hinterlands of towns and cities. But leveraging these labor market linkages between urban and rural areas for inclusive growth and poverty reduction will depend on overcoming two barriers. The first is that the jobs cre...
Cappellen, Hanne van Weerdt, Joachim de
Rural labor markets in Africa are frequently characterized by underemployment, with farmers unable to fully deploy throughout the year one of their most important assets—their labor. Using a nine-year panel data set on 1,407 working-age adults from rural Malawi, we document changes in rural underemployment over this period and how they are associat...
Sugden, F. Aderghal, M. Fengbo, C. Jian, C. Crivellaro, F. Dessalegn, Mengistu Kharel, A. Gupta, S. Kuznetsova, I. Naruchaikusol, S.
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Mathinya, V. N. Franke, A. C. van de Ven, G. W. J. Giller, K. E.
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Small-scale farming plays a critical role in the food security of Africa. An analysis of households in two former homelands provided critical insights into the future of small-scale farming in South Africa. From a survey of 132 households, 57 from Emmaus in the uKhahlamba local municipality in KwaZulu Natal Province and 75 from Thaba Nchu in the Ma...