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From Climate to Development Intelligence: Building Africa's Data Governance Systems for Resilience and Economic Growth
(2025-11)The adoption of the UN carbon-crediting mechanism at COP29 in Baku in 2024, and the growing emphasis on adaptation tracking leading up to COP30 in Belem, have marked a new phase in global climate governance. For African ... -
Biografías de mujeres negras en el sur brasileño: la interseccionalidad como herramienta de emancipación del Otro
(2025-11)El presente artículo analiza, desde una perspectiva microsociológica, la biografía de una mujer negra en la sociedad contemporánea en el sur brasileño, en la ciudad de Pelotas, localizada en el estado de Rio Grande do Sul. ... -
Drivers of commercial poultry development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from case studies of commercial poultry operations in Nigeria and Senegal
(2025-10)Transforming agrifood systems is a global priority, particularly in Africa where food security, nutrition and environmental issues remain critical. The poultry sector has the potential to contribute to this by providing ... -
Beyond insecticide treated bed nets coverage to heterogeneous human behaviors and spatial realities
(2025-05-16)<strong>Introduction:</strong> Insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) are a cost-efficient prevention method used to prevent malaria, yet their use in poorly urbanized and slum areas remains low. For instance, in these areas ... -
SciREX: Scientific Relation Extraction: Natural Language Processing Lab : final report
(2025-09-23)The rapid growth of biomedical literature makes it increasingly difficult to identify and organize meaningful knowledge. This project addresses the problem by focusing on <strong>relation extraction (RE)</strong>, i.e., ... -
Behaviour intention to eat reared crickets in Myanmar: the effects of trust, knowledge, and perceived quality
(2023-09-26)Edible insects are a good source of proteins, fats, and micronutrients for human consumption. Crickets are one of the most widely reared insects worldwide. They require less capital spending and less space and water ... -
Local and regional food production diversity are positively associated with household dietary diversity in rural Africa
(2025-01-02)Undernutrition and low dietary quality remain widespread issues in Africa. As most rural households in the region are involved in farming, the diversification of own farm production could improve their access to nutritious ... -
Motivational drivers and the effectiveness of conservation incentives
(2025-12-24)The debate about how external incentives (e.g., payments for ecosystem services) and internal motivations (e.g., intrinsic values) interact in producing conservation outcomes is still unresolved. This paper examines the ... -
Urban households' food safety knowledge and behaviour: Choice of food markets and cooking practices
(2023-08-06)Food safety is a public health issue and a shared responsibility of everyone. Traditional food markets can be high-risk locations for the spread of foodborne diseases, especially in developing countries. The focus has been ... -
Wheat Farmers' Perception of Constraints and Their Adaptive Capacity to Changing Demands in Egypt
(2023-08-03)Most of the approximately 105 million Egyptians depend on wheat in the form of baladi bread for their daily diet. Millions of smallholders along the River Nile have produced wheat for millennia; however, in more recent ... -
How legitimate are urban climate planning processes?: A comparative assessment of Accra, Ahmedabad, Bonn and São Paulo
(2025-01-20)Urban climate action plans (UCAPs) guide cities in identifying key climate risks and in addressing climate change. Designed to guide urban transformation over decades through near-term and long-term actions reducing emissions ... -
Agroecology in Africa: Lessons from interventions and stakeholders' perceptions in Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal and Uganda
(2025-07)Agroecology is gaining traction as a possible strategy for enhancing the sustainability and resilience of food systems, prompting increased support from some governments, donors, development organizations and civil society. ... -
Plural Sustainabilities: Reflections and Ways Ahead
(2025-07)"Sustainability" is a diverse and contested concept that cannot be reduced to a single definition or practice. We propose the concept of "plural sustainabilities" to raise awareness of how different worldviews, knowledge ... -
Cambios y heterogeneidad en los movimientos y teorías feministas en Abya Yala, con referencia a los feminismos indígenas de Guatemala y México
(2025-07-09)En este artículo me enfocaré en los movimientos de mujeres indígenas y decoloniales, que adquirieron relevancia principalmente en la década de 1990. Tras una breve reseña sobre los énfasis y transformaciones en los feminismos ... -
Bordar para denunciar, bordar para sanar: Comunidad y memoria en el proceso de Paz Colombiano
(2025-07-09)Uno de los objetivos principales de la firma de los acuerdos de paz en Colombia en 2016 fue lograr una paz estable y duradera. Sin embargo, mediante la visibilización de activismos textiles y comunidades como el Ojo de la ... -
Access to Electricity and Gendered Labor Allocation: Insights from Ethiopia
(2025-06-23)Electrification typically promotes economic development and enhances household wellbeing. However, how electrification affects the economic activities of different demographic groups is not yet sufficiently understood. ... -
Effects of using the internet on smallholder farmers’ income and dietary quality in Bangladesh
(2025-06-23)The internet is expanding at a rapid rate, which is true even in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries. The internet affects how people produce and consume food and other goods and services. This may also have ... -
Higher education in India: beyond institutes of national importance
(2025-05)India’s higher-education system has expanded dramatically since Independence, yet enrol-ment gains remain modest and uneven. Drawing on the All India Survey of Higher Education 2021–22 and Union-State budget data, this ... -
Asymmetrische Abhängigkeit, exkludierende Inklusion, skalenfreie Netzwerke: theoretische Ressourcen zur Erklärung moderner Sklaverei; sexueller Knechtschaft und des Menschenhandels in der Weltgesellschaft
(2025-05)Nigerianische Sexhandelsnetzwerke sind durch komplexe Strukturen geprägt, die tief in der Weltgesellschaft verwurzelt sind und schwer zu durchdringen bleiben. Ungeachtet der zunehmenden Aufmerksamkeit für Phänomene wie ... -
Slavery and strong asymmetrical dependencies: escalating social controls and the dynamics of exclusion and inclusion
(2025-05)The paper looks for a general analytical perspective that allows to understand and compare slavery and its related institutions (serfdom, debt slavery, forced labour) in premodern and modern societies. The paper starts ...
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