This paper presents a fieldwork methodology that used heat maps to identify areas prone to Violence Against Women (VAW) in the public sphere of five urban localities of the municipality of Corregidora, Querétaro in MexicoFootnote1. The heat maps were used to identify locations where women appear...
and poverty (Reed et al.2016; Barlow et al.2018), the sustainable management of tropical landscapes for conservation and development has become a priority. One of the major challenges of the 21st century is to reduce the duality between biodiversity conservation and livelihoods by considering and ...
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billion and global agricultural demand is projected to grow by 70-100% [Andrews-Speed 2015, MPS-AC 2014] due to the growing impacts of climate change, concerns over energy security, regional dietary shifts, and the Millennium Development target of reducing world poverty and hunger [Conway 2012]...
This reasoning leads one to believe that perhaps affluence and economic growth is the savior for the environment, and conversely global poverty is the problem (Beckerman, 1992; Hollander, 2004). Such ideas are supported by the experiences of many developed countries that have fewer incidences of ...
Currently, the dearth of effective and affordable drugs is a major problem hindering the eradication of leishmaniasis. Existing drugs are expensive, ranging from USD 30 to 1500 [17]. Paromomycin (PM) is the cheapest option in India, while liposomal amphotericin B (AmBisome) and miltefosine (Mi...
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Of note, the sample is fairly well educated and affluent, with half of respondents having completed tertiary education and only 12% of households estimated as being below the 3.10 PPP per person, per day international poverty line according to the Poverty Probability Index [30]. All of the ‘...
However, due to the conditions of the war, this number has decreased significantly to 1.5 million seedlings according to statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture [77]. The ongoing armed conflict has resulted in widespread poverty and increased financial strain on individuals, as well as a ...