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Autor:
Michael Loevinsohn
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 10, Iss 9, p e0135108 (2015)
Food security has deteriorated for many people in developing regions facing high and volatile food prices. Without effective and equitable responses, the situation is likely to worsen due to diminishing access to land and water, competition from non-
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/b43bfdb6b2f94fdebf4c33844e81c050
Publikováno v:
The European Journal of Development Research. 32:759-780
Livestock diseases are examples of negative externalities that affect livelihoods and health of poor people across the world. We investigate how the governance and power relationships along a value chain can contribute to reducing the negative effect
Publikováno v:
Preventive veterinary medicine. 183
This article problematises the ways in which behavioural change by poor individuals dominates the global discussions on means to tackle issues caused by systemic problems. We do so by focusing on the case of animal diseases, a symptom of many systema
Publikováno v:
Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review; Vol 32, No 1 (2016); 63-91
People affected by HIV and AIDS face risks which secure livelihood can enable them to avoid. At-risk groups and the type of risks differ between locations and over time. Opportunities to (re)build livelihoods are also diverse and context-specific. Su
Autor:
Sally Brooks, Michael Loevinsohn
Publikováno v:
Natural Resources Forum. 35:185-200
Climate change and variability present new challenges for agriculture, particularly for smallholder farmers who continue to be the mainstay of food production in developing countries. Recent global food crises have exposed the structural vulnerabilit
Autor:
Katie Cuming, Alan Nicol, Lyla Mehta, Oliver Cumming, Jeroen H. J. Ensink, Michael Loevinsohn
Publikováno v:
Health Policy and Planning
Divisions between communities, disciplinary and practice, impede understanding of how complex interventions in health and other sectors actually work and slow the development and spread of more effective ones. We test this hypothesis by re-reviewing
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::9f31fb65bf756a119b46934866c6f635
http://hdl.handle.net/11250/276731
http://hdl.handle.net/11250/276731
Autor:
Ozan Gundogdu, Abigail Woods, Ben S. Cooper, Peter Horby, Marco Liverani, Lisa J. White, James W. Rudge, Jeff Waage, Richard Coker, Brendan W. Wren, Shan Goh, Michael Loevinsohn, Tony Barnett, Ian Scoones, Richard D. Smith, Dirk U. Pfeiffer, Jonathan Rushton
Publikováno v:
Environmental Health Perspectives
BACKGROUND: In many parts of the world, livestock production is undergoing a process of rapid intensification. The health implications of this development are uncertain. Intensification creates cheaper products, allowing more people to access animal-
Publikováno v:
Agricultural Systems. 46:141-155
In the densely populated Rwandan highlands, farmer groups of two organizational types participated in research on intensifying valley agriculture. ‘Cooperatives’, farming collectively, and associations of farmers who cooperate on specific tasks b
Publikováno v:
Experimental Agriculture. 29:509-519
SummaryVarietal selection is particularly difficult for very heterogeneous environments where farmers have a range of preferences. To address these issues in Rwanda, local bean experts, generally women, are invited to the research station to assess c
Publikováno v:
Agricultural Systems. 41:419-439
Asynchrony in planting among rice fields leads to increased losses from insects and diseases and to reduced efficiency in irrigation. Accurate assessment of the causes of such variation is essential in planning corrective measures that further the in