including war, natural disasters and disease. On a micro level, some elements to a social profile will lead to poverty of individuals. None of these characteristics in isolation may force someone into poverty.
poverty rate is used as one of the nation's primary indicators of economic well-being. Developed in the 1960s, the poverty rate is calculated by comparing a family's or person's resources to a set of thresholds that vary by family size and composition....
Social prescribing is gaining traction internationally. It is an approach which seeks to address non-medical and health-related social needs through taking a holistic person-centred and community-based approach. This involves connecting people with and s
Some of the crops cultivated under intercropping have also been highlighted to contribute to carbon sequestration in many drylands of Africa25. Crop rotation has been highlighted to reduce the build-up of pests and diseases which are increasingly common under climatic shocks26. Fallowing also offers...
poverty rate is used as one of the nation's primary indicators of economic well-being. Developed in the 1960s, the poverty rate is calculated by comparing a family's or person's resources to a set of thresholds that vary by family size and composition. The thresholds are intended to ...
Together, these concepts contribute to a worldview in which business managers are economically-incentivized to innovate towards sustainability. In the academic literature, the efficacy of such approaches is the subject of debate (O’rourke et al., 1996, Mol and Spaargaren, 2000, York and Rosa, ...
there has been an increase in migration from rural to urban areas. Policies should be put in place to make the countryside more attractive, and young farmers in particular should be encouraged to contribute to agricultural employment, which helps reduce migration from rural areas to urban areas an...
To estimate the duration of the incubation period, we analyzed 268 confirmed cases with locally acquired infections belonging to 114 clusters, with information on both the date(s) of exposure and generation in the transmission chain of the cluster. We found that the best fitting distribution of ...
In order for WEPs to contribute to food security and act as a coping strategy for increased resilience, policy interventions need to better consider user groups when implementing restrictions that will almost certainly have a detrimental impact on local livelihoods and food security (Mbuvi and Boon,...
9. The analysis reveals that inter-regional differences contribute the most to the overall difference, followed by intra-regional differences and the intensity of trans-variation, with annual average contribution rates of 52.24%, 32.14%, and 15.64%, respectively. From an evolutionary perspective, as...