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The agriculture and food sector in India employ a significant proportion (about 44 percent) of the workforce, the … of their occupation. About 67 percent of the population in India is aged 15-64 years while 27 percent is aged 0-14 years … (UNFPA n.d.). This offers both a challenge and an opportunity to skill the youth as well as the existing workforce in India …
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overlooked in development research. Within the complex framework of SDGs that, on the one hand aim at improving the quality of …, we critically reflect on our own experience as female scholars in development studies and cooperation. We argue that … gender studies in development research need not only to frame their critical views within decolonial theories, but also to …
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development themes and little responsiveness to farmers' concerns and needs, leading to a lack of political interest. Farmers' low …
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This paper supports the argument that social science research should focus on adaptation to climate change as a social and political process, by analyzing the politics and interests of actors in climate change adaptation arenas, and by acknowledging the active role of those people who are...
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discusses how the Pakistan military reproduces and reinforces its hegemony through its presence in the development sector. This … modus operandi. How the Pakistan military operationalises its presence in the development sector to further consolidate its …
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Based on the experiences of 65 African alumni of the Bonn Interdisciplinary Graduate School for Development Studies …, this paper elaborates how successfully capacity development can be organized via academic migration. The results of the … alumni survey clearly indicate that a home-tie-oriented training offers a solid base for supporting capacity development …
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The study analyzes the current state of Agricultural Technical and Vocational Education and Training (ATVET) in Africa …
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the population that is calorie deficient (FAO's prevalence of undernourishment); the prevalence of underweight in children …
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interviews with teachers, school children and their families, the authors analyze how lives and family income change as a result … restrict school attendance in order to protect their children from floods and illness. They pursue reactive and concurrent …
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, higher rates of insurance uptake, and improved cognitive skills in children. However, there is scant evidence on how much … the adverse impact of inflation on the cognitive skills of children. In the face of declining land to labour ratio … implicit assumption in almost all major studies in the country in relation to social protection interventions such as PSNP is …
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