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Getting the Message Right on Nature‐based Solutions to Climate Change
(John Wiley & Sons, 2021-02-01)Nature‐based solutions (NbS) - solutions to societal challenges that involve working with nature - have recently gained popularity as an integrated approach that can address climate change and biodiversity loss, while ... -
Medium-scale Commercial Agriculture in Zimbabwe: the Experience of A2 Resettlement Farms
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-02-03)The emergence of medium-scale farms is having important consequences for agricultural commercialisation across Africa. This article examines the role of medium-scale A2 farms allocated following Zimbabwe's land reform after ... -
Overcoming Poverty in Multidimensional Poverty Interventions through Self-assessment and Mentoring
(Social Sciences School of Universidad de Palermo, Argentina, 2020-10-06)A microfinance organization in Paraguay has developed the “Poverty Stoplight” (PS), an innovative technological tool that allows families to self-assess their level of multidimensional poverty and start an ... -
Newly Evolving Pastoral and Post-pastoral Rangelands of Eastern Africa
(2020-11-16)Over the past two decades, the rangelands of Eastern Africa have experienced sweeping changes associated with growing human populations, shifting land use, expanding livestock marketing and trade, and greater investment ... -
Capacidades governamentais municipais e desenvolvimento humano local no Brasil
(Escola Nacional de Administração Pública (ENAP), 2020-12-24)Este documento tiene como objetivo analizar la relación entre las capacidades municipales del estado y el desarrollo humano en Brasil. Con este fin, construimos un marco teórico-analítico que propone tipos de ... -
Intra-household Efficiency in Extended Family Households: Evidence from Rural India
(Taylor and Francis, 2021-01-11)The extended family household, in which multiple generations or married siblings of a family live together, is common in developing countries. We conducted a series of public goods experiments in such households in five ... -
Revisiting Group Farming in a Post-socialist Economy: The Case of Romania
(Elsevier Ltd., 2020-12-11)In the 1990s, Romania decollectivised its agriculture under the Law on Agricultural Land Resources (Law 18/1991). Like many former socialist countries which had undertaken farm collectivization under socialism on a large ... -
Small Towns and Land Reform in Zimbabwe
(Springer Link, 2020-12-07)Zimbabwe’s land reform from 2000 radically transformed the agrarian structure, and with this small towns in rural areas. This article explores three such towns—Mvurwi, Chatsworth and Maphisa—examining changes in population, ... -
Assessing Mental Health in a Context of Extreme Poverty: Validation of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale in Rural Haiti
(PLOS ONE, 2020-12-14)A widening evidence base across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) points towards mutually reinforcing linkages between poverty and mental health problems. The use of validated and culturally relevant measures of ... -
On the Margins of Aid Orthodoxy: the Brazil-Mozambique Collaboration to Produce Essential Medicines in Africa
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2014-09-25)On the back of its recent economic development and domestic success in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Brazil is helping the Government of Mozambique to set up a pharmaceutical factory as part of its South-South cooperation ... -
Cultures of Politics, Spaces of Power: Contextualizing Brazilian Experiences of Participation
(Taylor and Francis, 2013-07-02)Brazilian democratic innovation is gathering considerable international attention, spawning a growing interest in replicating the institutional designs of its participatory governance institutions in countries with very ... -
Urban Social Assistance: Evidence, Challenges and the Way Forward, with Application to Ghana
(John Wiley & Sons, 2020-11-26)Motivation: Urban areas are growing as is urban poverty, yet few countries have developed comprehensive programmes for social assistance in urban areas. Those programmes that exist, moreover, are often extensions or ... -
Graduation After 10 years of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme: Surviving But Still Not Thriving
(John Wiley & Sons, 2020-06-17)Motivation: Many social protection programmes aspire to graduate poor people out of poverty. While some successfully ensure food security and survival for the poorest, few have moved large numbers of people sustainably out ... -
Participatory Action Research on Alcoholism and Bonded Labor in Times of Prohibition in India
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2020-09-08)The research presented in this article examines whether participatory action research methods can transform violent, stigmatising approaches to alcohol consumption in marginalised communities into community-owned, ... -
An Assessment of the Impact of COVID-19 Responses on MSMEs in the Informal Sector: Evidence from Commonwealth Countries in the Pacific
(Commonwealth Secretariat, 2020-09-21)The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led to severe economic disruption, with the informal sector in Pacific Commonwealth countries being particularly vulnerable. This report summarises current policy responses and ... -
The Double Logic of Internal Purges: New Evidence from Francoist Spain
(Taylor and Francis, 2020)States often engage in internal purges to eliminate political dissidents within their own ranks. However, partly because of the absence of reliable data, we know little about the logic and dynamics of these purges, ... -
COVID-19 as a Global Challenge: Towards an Inclusive and Sustainable Future
(Elsevier, Ltd., 2020-07-20)COVID-19 is a global challenge that demands researchers, policy makers, and governments address multiple dimensions which go far beyond the implications of this pandemic for health ... -
Exploring Critical Issues in the Ethical Involvement of Children with Disabilities in Evidence Generation and Use
(UNICEF Office Of Research – Innocenti, 2020-07)This working paper explores the main ethical challenges, and corresponding mitigation strategies, in relation to involving children with disabilities in evidence generation. Children with disabilities are defined as ... -
Using Mobile-phone Technology to Change Behaviour: Lessons from mNutrition
(UNSCN, 2020-07)This article presents key lessons learned from a rigorous mixed-method evaluation of mNutrition, a global mobile phone-based advisory service that promotes behavioural change around key nutrition and farming practices to ... -
The Urban Land Nexus–Challenges and Opportunities of Regularising Informal Settlements: The Case Studies of Dar es Salaam and Mwanza in Tanzania
(University of Cape Town, 2020-05-19)Informal settlements in Tanzania accommodate more than 70% of the urban population. Owing to this, the Tanzanian government has undertaken several initiatives to address the growing size and number of informal settlements. ...
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