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This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey results, summarizing both findings from the WEAI survey and the relationships between the WEAI and various outcomes of interest to the US Government’s Feed the...
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Foodborne Diseases / Ewen C. D. Todd and Clare Narrod; 6. Agriculture, Malaria, and Water-Associated Diseases / Clifford M …
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"Malaria, schistosomiasis (bilharzia), and Japanese encephalitis are the major vector-borne diseases whose increase or … filariasis. Young children in poor communities are particularly affected: malaria is among the top five causes of death among …. Unless well-targeted interventions are made, the most vulnerable—notably poor children and their mothers—will continue to …
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"Malaria afflicts many people in the developing world, and due to its direct and indirect costs it has widespread … impacts on growth and development. The global impact of malaria on human health, productivity, and general well-being is … malaria around the world, because it supports the breeding of mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite. Malaria can cause …
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Malaria is one of the top five causes of death worldwide, and roughly half the world’s population lives at risk of …, and health are intimately linked through malaria. Uganda has the highest malaria parasite transmission in the world and is … an important case study due to the role agricultural development has played in increasing malaria transmission within the …
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Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo — and explores how climate …
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generations in customary land areas of Ghana's Western Region. Although traditional matrilineal inheritance rules deny … landownership rights to women, women have increasingly acquired land through gifts and other means, thereby reducing the gender gap … changes to the increase in women's bargaining power due to an agricultural technology that increased the demand for women …
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generations in customary land areas of Ghana's Western Region. Although traditional matrilineal inheritance rules deny … landownership rights to women, women have increasingly acquired land through gifts and other means, thereby reducing the gender gap … changes to the increase in women's bargaining power due to an agricultural technology that increased the demand for women …
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"This report provides a nuanced perspective on debates about the potential for Africa's smallholder agriculture to stimulate growth and alleviate poverty in an increasingly integrated world. In particular, the paper synthesizes both the traditional theoretical literature on agriculture's role in...
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