Education is also a key determinant as it opens up for better off-farm jobs resulting in improved incomes [23]. Therefore, well-educated household heads allocate their resources better which can in turn increase production, as noted by Ref. [24] in Ethiopia. Similar results were found by Ref...
After the war other signals gathering related to weapons development and control continued, and upset quite a few in the US who were envious of the raw inteligence “from the brits” that their own military services were not supplying due in part to the ubexpected outbreak of the Korean war ...
Other cross-country studies examined child stunting rates, which, though related to national food security, is specifically the result of poor nutrition and health early in life (Milman et al. 2005). Headey (2013) analyzed the effect of within-country changes in general developmental factors on ...
across reports and articles pointing towards the procurement and building up of infrastructure related to food stockpiling from grain silos in MENA countries to store wheat, chilled warehouses in China to store meat, to the construction plans of the world's largest grain storage facility in Egypt...
Only one UNESCO Green Academy exists for the time being (in Ethiopia); however, Central and South Asian countries and cities have a huge potential to benefit from converting as many schools as possible according to this concept. 1.2.3 Climate Change Impacts Climate change, broadly interpreted, ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian government announced on Wednesday modifications to its controversial social security reform bill in a bid to ensure the bill's approval in the Congress. The modifications included changes related to retirement, dropping the minimum years of working...
If the “supposed great and the good” can not keep up, and as in recent times shown to be extreamly wanting, how the heck do we expect others who’s lives are not related to tech to keep up? In the UK the banks and financial industry are getting hit with wave after wave of new...
Similarly, lockdown measures are associated with 12 percentage points reduction in the probability of participation in non-farm business activities. These lockdown measures have limited implications on wage-related activities and farming activities. In terms of food security, households relying on non-...
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impact of declining prices and the onset of WWI. Hence, the growth in export crop production was driven by colonial demand rather than farmers responding to market opportunities (Frankema et al.,2018). This subsection summarizes six inter-related impacts of this expansion that undermined food ...