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This study used a nationally representative survey from the 2012-2013 World Bank’s General Household Survey for Nigeria, to examine the relationship between empowerment, measured using a modification of the Alkire et al. (2013) empowerment index, and household dietary diversity, based on the...
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Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) statistical bulletin, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), World Development Indicators (WDI … variables, while population is a control variable. Two agricultural variables (agriculture production and agriculture credit …) are employed with six variables of institutional framework. The findings show that in the long-run, agriculture production …
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growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three instruments of forest exploitation, the study shows how rural …
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This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...
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The rate of deforestation in Africa is of paramount concern not only to the future of Africa, but also to the world …
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One of the key economic development challenges facing Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is its low agricultural productivity …. Governments, donors, and foreign investors have underinvested in African agriculture even though research evidence shows that … Moments to examine whether official development assistance (ODA) for agriculture and rural development is helping to boost …
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Africa. This research contributes to the gender debate in agriculture from a CSR perspective in developing countries and … nutritional security. This is achieved by enhancing coherence in policies on gender, agriculture, nutrition, health, trade and … relevant food and nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa. This implies that promoting the implementation of everybody's right …
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This study complements the extant literature by assessing the role of governance dynamics in food security in Ghana for the period 1980-2019. The empirical evidence is based on the Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS) technique and governance is categorized into: political (entailing...
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persistence in homicides is sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), followed by Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and then … by Europe & Central Asia (ECA). In order to increase room for policy implications, the dataset is decomposed into income …
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The paper verifies the Azzimonti et al. (2014) conclusions on a sample of 53 African countries for the period 1996-2008. Authors of the underlying study have established theoretical underpinnings for a negative nexus between rising public debt and inequality in OECD nations. We assess the...
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