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Climate (change) and conflict: Resolving a puzzle of association and causation
Almer, Christian; Boes, Stefan - 2012
long-term changes in Sub-Saharan Africa and find that climate (change) significantly affects agricultural output, to some …
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Land Access, Tenure and Investment in Post-War Northern Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - 2003
The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that war enhances land abundance. This implies that...
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Essays on risk management of natural resources in developing countries
Espinoza, César Antinio Salazar - 2017
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The influence of climate change, technological progress and political change on agricultural land use: calculated scenarios for the Upper Danube catchment area
Henseler, Martin; Wirsig, Alexander; Krimly, Tatjana; … - In: Agrarwirtschaft: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, … 57 (2008) 3/4, pp. 207-219
Both climate and agricultural policy changes are commonly seen as important drivers for agricultural production. In this study, scena-rios of climate and political change were calculated for the Upper Danube catchment area using the regional optimization model ACRE. Two political scenarios were...
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Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants' Cultures of Innovation
Kohnert, Dirk - 2010
The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from …
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Rural class differentiation in Nigeria: Theory and practice - a quantitative approach in the case of Nupeland
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 14 (1979) 3, pp. 295-315
The knowledge of social stratification within the peasantry is a decisive precondition of sustainable economic and political measures for an effective support of agricultural production in least developed countries. This is one of the reasons why also in Nigeria social scientist focus on the...
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The Asian Drivers and Africa: Learning from Case Studies
Goldstein, Andrea E.; Pinaud, Nicolas; Reisen, Helmut; … - In: The World Economy 32 (2009) 11, pp. 1538-1542
then to promote African voices from various backgrounds to reflect Africa's heterogeneity. The introductory section … presents a summary of findings about the economic impact of the two Asian giants in SSA countries by Africa-based economists …
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Geography and development in Africa: Overview and implications for regional cooperation
Naudé, Wim - 2007
Geography causes African countries to experience a ‘proximity gap’. To overcome this gap a ‘big push’ may be needed in infrastructure. The cross-border nature of such infrastructure requires regional cooperation in at least four issues: transport infrastructure, trade facilitation,...
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For Better and for Worse - How Unpaid Bride Wealth provides Security
Hoogeveen, Hans - 2000
The obligation to pay bride wealth at marriage is usually associated with thecontinuation of the lineage or considered a compensation for the loss of laborfor the family that provides the bride. In this paper a different interpretationis advanced. The obligation to pay of bride wealth is seen as...
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Out of Africa: What drives the Pressure to emigrate?
van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Groenewold, George; Schoorl, … - 2003
This paper evaluates the strength of social and economic forces that affect the pressure to emigrate 'out of Africa … out of Africa, especially in Ghana and Senegal. Signs of positive selection with respect to the level of education of … pressure to emigrate 'out of Africa' can be a long lasting phenomenon. …
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