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relationship between animal source food consumption and tree cover. Overall our findings suggest that children in Africa who live …
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A positive economic growth is one crucial macroeconomic objective of every nation. Many countries have formed regional as well as international trading blocs in an attempt to enhance economic growth and maximise welfare of each member state, the AFTZ member states are not an exception. This...
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This paper considers the problem of a water management authority that is faced with the threat of a drought that will … restored, and iii) an economically optimal policy taking account of the probability of a drought and the fact that water is an … asset (a stock of natural capital). In particular, it is shown that the optimal pre-drought steady-state stock of water is …
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drought, which is exacerbated by environmental change. This study analyzes the impact of drought on household’s vulnerability …, the study employs the methodology proposed by Christiaensen and Subbarao (2004). The results show that recurrent drought … makes households more vulnerable to the extent that households that were affected by drought in both periods were twice as …
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The poverty problem is chronic in the Horn of Africa. Majority of the people in the region are suffering from this …. This paper delves the incidence of poverty in the Horn of Africa region. It identifies the major threats and challenges of …
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case, the lack of the water. During 1949 and 1955, studies were carried out concerning the damages produced by drought and …
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implications of drought-induced livestock and crop production shortfalls in various regions of Ethiopia, world price increases and …
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long time, but the first steps to combat drought took just in the mid twentieth century when there was planted windbreak …
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livelihoods in the face of a decade of persistent drought. The study is based on quantitative and qualitative data collected by …
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This paper presents the first household-level study to examine the combined impacts of the global food and financial crises on household food security and economic well-being in a developing country. Using longitudinal survey data of 1,800 rural households from 12 districts of Bangladesh over...
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