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Brujas y videntes contra los feminicidios: autoría y discurso político en Dolores Reyes
de Benito Mesa, Iris (2024-05)La escritora argentina Dolores Reyes debuta en 2019 con su primera novela, Cometierra. En ella, narra la historia de una adolescente con particulares poderes de videncia, que le permiten encontrar los cuerpos -con o sin ... -
Buen vivir y pueblos originarios en el proceso constituyente chileno: conflictos ontológicos
Gómez, Felipe; Santana, Isaac (2023)Este artículo reflexiona sobre la participación de los pueblos originarios en el último proceso constituyente chileno que culminó con el rechazo a la propuesta de una nueva Constitución. Se propone que el encuentro de ... -
Building digital bridges in African value chains: Use and impact of digital technologies among agricultural intermediaries
Baumüller, Heike (2023-01)High hopes have been pinned on digital agricultural (D4Ag) solutions to increase agricultural productivity and food security in Africa. Such solutions provide digitally enabled services to agricultural producers and other ... -
Building Resilience to Vulnerabilities, Shocks and Stresses: A paper on Action Track 5
Hertel, Thomas W.; Elouafi, Ismahane; Ewert, Frank; Tanticharoen, Morakot (2021-03-08)Transforming food systems involves five action tracks: i) access to safe and nutritious food, ii) sustain- able consumption, iii) nature-positive production, iv) equitable livelihood, and v) resilience to shocks and stress. ... -
Burkina Faso - Land, climate, energy, agriculture and development: A study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for Regional Development, Jobs, and Food Security
Sylla, Mouhamadou Bamba; Dimobe, Kangbéni; Sanfo, Safietou (2021-01)In this working paper, the biophysical factors and socio-economic conditions that led to Land Use and Land Cover Changes (LULC) and land degradation in Burkina Faso are reviewed. It is found that the country is densely ... -
Bush encroachment mapping for Africa: Multi-scale analysis with remote sensing and GIS
Graw, Valerie; Oldenburg, Carsten; Dubovyk, Olena (2016-07)Bush encroachment (BE) describes a global problem severely affecting savanna ecosystems in Africa. Invasive species and woody vegetation spread out in areas where they are not naturally occurring and suppress endemic ... -
Die Bürgergesellschaft als Motor der europäischen Integration: Perspektiven der Zusammenarbeit deutscher und slowakischer Nichtregierungsorganisationen
Matlak, Milan; Kriener, Daniel; Kováč, Dušan; von zur Mühlen, Patrik; Demeš, Pavol; Košt’álová, Katarína; Brusis, Martin; Richterová, Adriena; Samson, Ivo; Filistein, Roman; Wenig, Marcus (2000)Vom 25. bis 27. Juni 1999 fand am Gustav-Stresemann-Institut in Bonn (GSI) ein von der Slovak Academic Information Agency (SAIA) und dem GSI organisierter Kongreß zum Thema „Europäische Integration – Perspektiven der ... -
Calidad de aire y sostenibilidad: Revisión de la contaminación atmosférica por PM2.5 en ciudades de América Latina y Europa
Maldonado García, Eliana; Aguirre Rincón, Pablo (2024-02-12)En este artículo abordo la centralidad de los cuidados, entendiéndolos como un derecho, no sólo para la comunidad sino para la naturaleza, desde el marco conceptual de la ecología política feminista latinoamericana. Propongo ... -
Can a concern for status reconcile diverse social welfare programs?
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin (2016-04)Let there be two individuals: “rich,” and “poor.” Due to inefficiency of the income redistribution policy, if a social planner were to tax the rich in order to transfer to the poor, only a fraction of the taxed income would ... -
Can a deportation policy backfire?
Stark, Oded; Byra, Lukasz (2019-10)Drawing on a model in which utility is derived from consumption and effort (labor supply), we ask how the deportation of a number of undocumented migrants influences the decisions regarding labor supply, consumption, and ... -
Can a specially designed information intervention around the WASH-agriculture linkages make any difference?: Experimental evidence of behavioral changes and health impacts
Malek, Mohammad Abdul; Khan, Tahsina Naz; Gerber, Nicolas; Saha, Ratnajit; Mohammad, Ikhtiar (2016-04)This paper attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of the specially designed packages of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions with <em>‘student brigades’</em> (student teams tasked with maintaining hygiene in ... -
Can altruism lead to a willingness to take risks?
Stark, Oded (2023-10)I study attitudes towards risk taking in cases where a person relates to others positively, namely altruistically. This study is needed because it is unclear how altruism influences the inclination of an altruistic person ... -
Can big companies’ initiatives to promote mechanization benefit small farms in Africa?: A case study from Zambia
Adu-Baffour, Ferdinand; Daum, Thomas; Birner, Regina (2018-06)After many years of neglect, there is a renewed interest in agricultural mechanization in Africa. Since government initiatives to promote mechanization, e.g., by importing and subsidizing tractors, are confronted with major ... -
Can community-based health insurance nudge preventive health behaviours?: Evidence from rural Uganda
Nshakira-Rukundo, Emmanuel; Mussa, Essa Chanie; Nshakira, Nathan; Gerber, Nicolas; von Braun, Joachim (2019-01)Community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes have emerged as strong pathways to universal health coverage in developing countries. Their examination has largely focussed on their impacts on financial protection and on ... -
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 ... -
Can one improve now-casts of crop prices in Africa? Google can.
Weber, Regine; Kornher, Lukas (2019-02)With increasing Internet user rates across Africa, there is considerable interest in exploring new, online data sources. Particularly, search engine metadata, i.e. data representing the contemporaneous online-interest in ... -
Can social safety nets protect public health?: The effect of India’s workfare and foodgrain subsidy programmes on anaemia
Narayanan, Sudha; Gerber, Nicolas; Rathore, Udayan; Naraparaju, Karthikeya (2017-10)Can large-scale social safety nets be nutrition sensitive even if they do not explicitly incorporate health and nutrition as programmatic goals? This paper focuses on the consequences of a countrywide guaranteed workfare ... -
Can the agroprocessing sector create jobs in Africa?: Evidence from Ethiopia, Ghana and Tunisia
Kubik, Zaneta; Getahun, Tigabu D.; Omari, Rose; Oueslati Zlaoui, Meriem (2022-07)This paper analyzes the potential of the agroprocessing sector to create jobs in Africa, based on the evidence from Ethiopia, Ghana and Tunisia. The analysis uses both primary qualitative data and secondary quantitative ... -
Can the agroprocessing sector create jobs in Africa?: Evidence from Ethiopia, Ghana and Tunisia
Konok, Khadeja Akter; Kubik, Zaneta; Getahun, Tigabu D.; Omari, Rose; Oueslati Zlaoui, Meriem (2024-04)The lack of adequate employment opportunities continues to be one of the principal challenges hindering poverty reduction efforts in Africa. Despite sustained economic growth – at least until the Covid-19 pandemic – the ...