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Stories of Change in Nutrition in Burkina Faso 1992–2018: a Micro-level Perspective
(Springer Link, 2022-03-22)Looking back at what has effectively improved nutrition may inform policy makers on how to accelerate progress to end all forms of malnutrition by 2030. As under-five stunting declined substantially in Burkina Faso, we ... -
Stories of Change in Nutrition in Ghana: a focus on stunting and anemia among children under-five years (2009 – 2018)
(Springer Link, 2021-11-28)The current study aimed to understand why child stunting and anemia (CS&A) rates declined in Ghana between 2009 and 2018, and which priority policies and programs will further improve nutrition outcomes. Trends and potential ... -
Understanding Drivers of Stunting Reduction in Nigeria from 2003 to 2018: a Regression Analysis
(Springer Link, 2022-03-26)Nigeria is a high burden country for stunting. Stunting reduction has been slow and characterized by unequal progress across the 36 states and federal capital territory of the country. This study aimed to assess the changes ... -
Exploring the Drivers of Malnutrition in West Africa from Health and Social Science Perspectives: A Comparative Methodological Review
(Sage Journals, 2021-10-15)West Africa has a high burden of malnutrition and the drivers are often complex, highly context-specific, and cut across individual, social, political and environmental domains. Public health research most often considers ... -
Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition in the 21st Century: a Report from the 22nd Annual Harvard Nutrition Obesity Symposium
(Oxford University Press, 2021-11-09)Food systems are at the center of a brewing storm consisting of a rapidly changing climate, rising hunger and malnutrition, and significant social inequities. At the same time, there are vast opportunities to ensure that ... -
Affordances and Agricultural Technology
(Elsevier, 2022-06-15)This paper discusses how the theory of affordances can be used to investigate how a spectrum of opportunities, benefits, costs and risks is generated and unevenly distributed by different kinds of technology (where ‘tech ... -
African Women’s Lives in the Time of a Pandemic
(Institute of African Studies, 2022)This issue of Feminist Africa reflects on both the impact of COVID-19 on African women and African women’s responses to the pandemic. As a continent, Africa has endured decades of economic, political and social crises. ... -
No Smoking Gun: Tobacco Taxation and Smuggling in Sierra Leone
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2022-06-02)Objective: To evaluate the common industry claim that higher tobacco taxation leads to higher levels of smuggling, particularly in a limited state capacity setting. Design:This paper evaluates the effects of a ... -
Tax Obsessions: Taxpayer Registration and the Informal Sector in sub-Saharan Africa
(Wiley, 2022-05)Motivation: There are three puzzling features of sub-Saharan African tax systems: tax administrations maintain records on vast numbers of small enterprises that actually provide no revenue; they continually invest resources ... -
The Water-Energy-Food Nexus Beyond “Technical Quick Fix”: The Case of Hydro-Development in the Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-05-24)This paper builds upon empirical material from a case study of two dam sites in Ethiopia to revisit nexus narratives from a political ecology perspective. The two dams on tributaries of the Upper Blue Nile are examples of ... -
Gender Blind Spots in COVID-19 Containment and Mitigation Measures in Burkina Faso and Ghana
(Institute of African Studies, 2022-03)This article unpacks the gendered impacts of the containment and mitigation measures adopted in many countries to deal with the pandemic. Based on detailed data on the inclusivity of measures taken to contain the outbreak ... -
Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Increase Women Voters’ Turnout in Pakistan
(Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association, 2022-05-18)How can we close persistent gender gaps in political participation? We develop a theory highlighting the role of male household members as “gatekeepers” of women’s participation in patriarchal settings and argue that the ... -
An Exploration of the Association Between Fuel Subsidies and Fuel Riots
(Elsevier Ltd, 2022-04-25)Between 2005 and 2018, 41 countries had at least one riot directly associated with popular demand for fuel. We make use of a new international dataset on fuel riots to explore the effects of fuel prices and price regimes ... -
The Quantification of Child Labour by Ghana’s Mass Media: A Missed Opportunity?
(SAGE, 2022-04-27)This article describes how the mass media in Ghana use quantitative information to communicate the prevalence of child labour. During the period 2000–2020, stories about child labour frequently appeared in Ghana’s mass ... -
Chicken or Egg? A Bi‑directional Analysis of Social Protection and Social Cohesion in Burundi and Haiti
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2022-04-06)A limited but growing number of studies point to mixed efects of social protection on social cohesion. Relatively little is known about the role of social cohesion on access to and impact of social protection. Based ... -
Growing from the South in the Seed Market: Grupo Don Mario
(2022-04-22)Purpose: The authors aim to draw lessons for research and policy from an exception(nal) case of a firm's international expansion in the seed market: Grupo Don Mario, a company originally from Argentina that supplies 20% ... -
Hard Work and Hazard: Young People and Agricultural Commercialisation in Africa
(Elsevier Ltd., 2020-04-22)An emerging orthodoxy supports the proposition that the rural economy – built around agriculture but encompassing much more – will serve as sweet spot of employment opportunities for many millions of young people into the ... -
Tobacco Farming Following Land Reform in Zimbabwe: A New Dynamic of Social Differentiation and Accumulation
(Routledge, 2022-04-04)Tobacco has been central to the agrarian economy of Zimbabwe since the early 1900s, when it became the backbone of the new settler economy following colonisation. Since the land reform of 2000, tobacco has taken on a new ... -
Natural Resource Industries as a Platform for the Development of Knowledge Intensive Industries
(Wiley Online Library, 2015-01-13)In the innovation and development literature, natural resources (NR) are generally viewed as a curse for developing nations and NR-based industries as having little potential to innovate and drive long-term growth. This ... -
‘Demonstration Fields’, Anticipation, and Contestation: Agrarian Change and the Political Economy of Development Corridors in Eastern Africa
(Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2020-03-18)In much of Eastern Africa, the last decade has seen a renewed interest in spatial development plans that link mineral exploitation, transport infrastructure and agricultural commercialisation. While these development ...