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Achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 A Review of Quantitative Assessments of Synergies and Tradeoffs amongst the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A paper from the Scientific Group of the UN Food Systems Summit 26 May 2021
Valin, Hugo; Hertel, Thomas; Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon; Hasegawa, Tomoko; Stehfest, Elke (2021-05-26)The Sustainable Development Goal 2 “Zero hunger” (SDG2) sets clear global targets for ensuring access to sufficient food and healthy nutrition for all by 2030, while keeping food systems within sustainable boundaries and ... -
Agency, opportunity structure and empowerment in everyday refugee life: Enduring and overcoming challenges of daily living in Cologne refugee shelters
Ekren, Elizabeth (2021-11-22)To what extent are refugees empowered in their daily lives to overcome legal, material and sociocultural challenges that governmental institutional structures create? In Germany, where over 1 million individuals have ... -
The Agricultural mechanization in Africa: micro-level analysis of state drivers and effects
Kirui, Oliver Kiptoo (2019-04)This paper examines the state, drivers and, consequently, the impacts of agricultural mechanization in eleven countries in Africa. Using representative multistage stratified household survey data and robust analytical ... -
Annual Report 2015: Program of Accompanying Research for Agricultural Innovation - PARI
von Braun, Joachim (2016-04)PARI Annual Report 2015 The Program of Accompanying Research for Agricultural Innovation (PARI) brings together partners from Africa, India and Germany to contribute to sustainable agricultural growth and food and nutrition ... -
Beyond adoption: welfare effects of farmer innovation behavior in Ghana
Tambo, Justice A.; Wünscher, Tobias (2016-05)With numerous challenges hindering smallholders’ adoption of externally developed technologies, it is often argued that farmer innovation can play an essential role in rural livelihoods. Yet a rigorous assessment of the ... -
Can Mobile Money Facilitate Cash Transfers to Farmers and the Rural Poor in the COVID-19 Context?
Greco, Angelica (2020-06)Mobile money is widespread across Africa. The GSMA reports that around half of the 1 billion mobile money accounts worldwide were registered in Africa in 2019. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) alone, mobile money transactions ... -
COVID y las realidades de las jóvenes en América Latina
Anaya, Lani; Andrade Costa de Mendoça Lima, Amanda (2022)La crisis derivada de la pandemia del COVID-19 ha impactado en la vida de las personas de diferentes maneras. Más allá del aspecto sanitario, el fenómeno expuso las desigualdades económicas, sociales y ambientales estructurales ... -
Covid-19 causes unprecedented Migrant Crisis in India: Assessing the impact of lockdown measures on migrant workers during the first wave of Covid-19
Rothenberger, Paula; Gulati, Ashok; Jose, Shyma; Singh, B.B. (2021-05)The second wave of Covid-19 is sweeping across India at an immense speed. India recorded the highest number of single-day Covid-19 cases in the world (354,531), surpassing Brazil and the USA (as of 25 April 2021). The ... -
COVID-19: Emergence, spread and its impact on the Indian economy and migrant workers
Gulati, Ashok; Jose, Shyma; Singh, B.B. (2021-04)This study examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the related nationwide lockdown on the Indian economy, particularly on food systems. It also takes up an important issue of millions of migrant workers in India ... -
Culture and Communication: A Study of NGO Woman-to-Woman Communication Styles at the United Nations
Stillman, Linda J. (2005)This dissertation is an original study that will confirm that culture determines the foundation for shaping one’s communication style. A multitude of communication styles strongly impacts woman-to-woman interaction among ... -
Empowering Smallholder Farmers through Farmer Organizations: Insights from Kenya and Burkina Faso
Wortmann-Kolundžija, Eli (2019-12)The market-driven agricultural transformation of the global food system requires all, directly and indirectly, participating actors to compete efficiently and to adapt to changes in consumer demand and buyer requirements. ... -
¿Es la salud digital un derecho humano?
Portugal-Ramírez, Mario S. (2022)La salud digital ha transformado la atención médica y la medicina en las últimas décadas, ganando impulso durante la pandemia de COVID-19. En teoría, la salud digital puede cambiar las reglas del juego debido a su potencial ... -
Ex-ante technology assessment for inclusive poverty reduction and sustainable productivity growth in agriculture (TIGA): A manual
Mohammad Abdul, Malek; Gatzweiler, Franz (2016)The manual presented here is based on the experience and draw out the collected lessons learnt with regard to the design and implementation of the Ex-ante technology assessment and farm household segmentation for inclusive ... -
Financing SGD2 and Ending Hunger: Food Systems Summit Brief Prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit, May 11th, 2021
Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio (2021-05-11)Among the important tasks of the UNFSS is identifying ways to finance the transformation of the global food system. This report analyses options for financing a specific, but crucial, part of the overall food system ... -
Foreign direct investment in the African food and agriculture sector: trends, determinants and impacts
Husmann, Christine; Kubik, Zaneta (2019-04)In this paper, we seek to answer three research questions: (1) What is the pattern of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the African food and agriculture sector in the last 15 years? (2) What are the drivers of FDI in the ... -
From Potentials to Reality: Transforming Africa’s Food Production: Investment and policy priorities for sufficient, nutritious and sustainable food supplies
Baumüller, Heike; von Braun, Joachim; Admassie, Assefa; Badiane, Ousmane; Baraké, Evelyn; Börner, Jan; Chichaibelu, Bezawit B.; Collins, Julia; Daum, Thomas; Gatiso, Tsegaye; Gerber, Nicolas; Getahun, Tigabu D.; Glatzel, Katrin; Hendriks, Sheryl; Kirui, Oliver K.; Kornher, Lukas; Kubik, Zaneta; Luedeling, Eike; Mirzabaev, Alisher; Ndiaye, Papa Gora; Sakketa, Tekalign; Shah, Meera; Tadesse, Getaw; Walakira, John (2020-10)This study identifies ways in which Africa can realize its potential to secure a supply of food for affordable and healthy diets through the sustainable use of its own resources. The focus is on investment, cooperation, ... -
Health and Welfare Implications of Climate Variability: Evidence from Rural Uganda
Amondo, Emily Injete (2022-12-20)Uganda has been highly affected by extreme weather events and climate change in the recent years. Weather-related disasters could potentially affect health outcomes directly, or indirectly through its deleterious effects ... -
The hidden risk of conventional floodplain mapping: Diagnosis in Cali, Colombia
Canon, Cesar (2022-04-05)Flood hazard maps display the geographical areas inundated by water bodies after extreme rainfall events take place, helping governments focus their efforts and resources on performing works to mitigate disasters produced ... -
Honey Bee Network in Africa: Co-creating a Grassroots Innovation Ecosystem in Africa
Gupta, Anil; Shinde, Chintan; Dey, Anamika; Patel, Ramesh; Patel, Chetan; Kumar, Vipin; Patel, Mahesh (2019-02)This paper presents a case study of the Honey Bee Network’s decentralized model for collecting, verifying and disseminating grassroots innovations and provides a roadmap for its replication in Africa. The ... -
Improving milk value chains through solar milk cooling
Salvatierra Rojas, Ana; Torres Toledo, Victor; Mrabet, Farah; Müller, Joachim (2018-09)Smallholder dairy farms are the major providers of marketed milk in Kenya, producing one to ten liters per day. Due to this low production level, farmers are usually associated in cooperatives. Dairy cooperatives are ...