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The Political Economy of Land Use and Land Cover Change in Mvurwi Area Zimbabwe, 1984–2018
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-02-01)An analysis of the variations in land use and land cover over the past four decades in the Mvurwi area, Mazowe district, Zimbabwe illustrates how socio-economic dynamics and natural factors combine to shape environmental ... -
Breaking Out of the Policy Enclave Approach to Child Labour in sub-Saharan African Agriculture
(Sage Journals, 2021-02-17)This article is framed by the tension between a substantial universalising framework of global instruments on workers’ rights and child labour on one hand, and their outsourced implementation through the social policy ... -
WASH in Schools for Student Return During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-02-11)The literature on WASH and school re-opening during the COVID-19 pandemic is dominated by guidelines with little in the way of recent evidence or lessons learned. Analysis of data from school re-openings at the end of 2020 ... -
Disabled Children and Work: An Overview of a Neglected Topic with a Specific Focus on Ghana
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-02-25)This paper provides an overview of issues related to disabled children and work. This is a very unexplored topic and the literature is scant, so the paper first provides an overview of some key relevant background information ... -
Improving Adult Literacy in Niger Through Mobile Calls to Teachers
(IDS and the Impact Initiative, 2021-02)In Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, 85 per cent of adults are unable to read or write, even in local languages. Adult education programmes can be a route to improving adult literacy rates, but non-governmental ...