Despite the fact that the region is endowed with unprecedented amounts and varieties of natural resources (mineral, flora, and fauna), poverty levels has continued to threaten the livelihoods of most of the region's citizens as well as its sovereignty. The appalling phenomena in Angola, Botswana...
The executive director of the Water Witness International group came forward to suggest that the UK should be held responsible for the cholera outbreak in Malawi which has killed 1210 people after the UK cut the WASH aid budget of the country by GBP 90 million [30]. The UK has since ...
< 0.001) was lower than expected levels, while it was higher than expected levels in Northeastern China (IRR = 1.484, 95% CI: 1.266–1.740; P < 0.001). The results were similar across route of transmission groups, and in a sensitivity analysis considering seasonality (Table ...
In Africa, mobile telephony and the various support services that have become available with it has unleashed a wave of wealth-creating entrepreneurship, even among some of the poorest people. In Malawi, for instance, the Malawi Agriculture Commodity Exchange (MACE), an independent government-sponsor...
Moreover, renting out land substantially improved farmers’ economic conditions, such as income earnings, by generating land rents in Malawi and Zambia (Chamberlin & Ricker-Gilbert, 2016). This is more evident in China as most agricultural producers are smallholder farmers. Chen et al. (2023) fo...
In the other papers, household survey datasets are used to evaluate implications of specific ecosystem services interventions, including conservation agriculture and wildlife management areas, and are structured accordingly. In their study of subsidy payments in Malawi, Bell et al.6 apply a classic ...
Flooding is among the most prevalent natural hazards, with particularly disastrous impacts in low-income countries. This study presents global estimates of the number of people exposed to high flood risks in interaction with poverty. It finds that 1.81 billion people (23% of world population) are...
Farmer responses to technical advice offered at plant clinics in Malawi, Costa Rica and Nepal International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 16 (2) (2018), pp. 187-200 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar Bett et al., 2018 E. Bett, J. Mugwe, N. Nyalugwe, E. Haraman, F. Williams, J....
Chapter 1 Poverty, Health and Livelihoods 1.1 Linking Poverty, Health and Livelihoods Developing countries, especially those in the tropical regions of the world, are known for poverty and disease, both infectious and non-communicable diseases. People in developing countries carry on their day-to-...
Today, social grants in some form or another are paid to 46% of South Africans.24 But as we saw when examining poverty levels in different African coun- tries, even with this hugely expensive and expansive grant system, more than half of South Africans still live in extreme poverty (using...