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income management. This paper reports findings from a qualitative study undertaken in Tanzania and Kenya to examine women … increasingly using market-based approaches to disseminate technologies to smallholder farmers, and, although women are among their … targeted group, little is known of the extent to which these approaches are reaching and benefiting women. There is also little …
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and simulation of the Malabo goals on poverty and hunger. The modeling framework is applied to Kenya using the most recent … data. The Malabo Agenda simulation results indicate that Kenya's current nonagriculture-led growth is not sufficient to …
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adaptation. Data were collected in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mali using both an e-survey platform and face …
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in eastern and central Kenya, we explore the relationship between price, brand, and aflatoxin contamination. Aflatoxin is …
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Annual data on Kenya from 1950 to 2014 are used to analyze the determinants of the level and composition of government …
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Evidence continues to mount that foodborne illness imposes a staggering health burden in developing countries. However, standard approaches used by developed country governments to ensure food safety are not appropriate in settings where regulatory enforcement capacity is weak and most firms are...
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/2011, this paper first reviews the institutional arrangement and budgeting process in Kenya, followed by a description of the … structure of public expenditure account in Kenya. The expenditure data are aggregated according to clearly delineated …
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Using nationally representative survey data from rural Bangladesh, this paper examines the relationship between women …'s empowerment in agriculture and indicators of individual dietary quality. Our findings suggest that women's empowerment is … associated with better dietary quality for individuals within the household, with varying effects across the life course. Women …
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Although women's empowerment and gender equality are associated with better maternal and child nutrition outcomes …, recent systematic reviews find inconclusive evidence. This paper applies a comparable methodology to data on the Women …'s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), a recent internationally-validated measure based on interviews of women and men within …
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limited, especially among smaller producers. Fewer women than men own poultry, but most women report that they control the … equitable gains in terms of gender. Access to credit appears to increase women's poultry ownership, but remains limited, as does … women's access to poultry output markets …
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