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Covid-19 causes unprecedented Migrant Crisis in India: Assessing the impact of lockdown measures on migrant workers during the first wave of Covid-19
(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 ...
Like Uber for Tractors?: How to strengthen the rural sharing economy in India and Africa
(2020-07)
With even basic models costing 10.000 Euro, tractors are out of reach for most smallholder farmers. However, farmers do not need to own tractors in order to benefit from them. Following the idea of the sharing economy, ...
Can Mobile Money Facilitate Cash Transfers to Farmers and the Rural Poor in the COVID-19 Context?
(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 ...
What are the Effects of Agricultural Mechanization?: A case study from Zambia
(2020-03)
During the last decade, governments, private actors as well as civil society and development partners have joined efforts to promote a productivity revolution in Africa’s agriculture. For this, smallholder farmers are key, ...
The Forgotten Agriculture-Nutrition Link: Estimating the energy requirements of different farming technologies in rural Zambia
(2020-03)
Worldwide, 821 million people do not have access to enough calories, they are undernourished. In addition, close to two billion people lack micronutrients, they are malnourished and suffer from hidden hunger. Smallholder ...
El horror al cadáver de un perpetrador: Abimael Guzmán hecho cenizas
(2022)
El destino final del cadáver de un perpetrador de derechos humanos constituye un desafío incómodo para las sociedades que han sufrido la crueldad de sus actos. En este artículo analizamos el caso del líder de Sendero ...
Documenting the digital transformation of African agriculture: Use and impact of digital technologies among agricultural intermediaries
(2022-06)
Agricultural intermediaries perform important functions in the African food and agriculture sector. Digital solutions targeted at these intermediaries could improve their service delivery while helping digital agricultural ...
Juventud, interseccionalidad, educación y la inserción profesional como derecho
(2022)
El objetivo de este artículo es explorar la producción académica sobre el tema de la juventud latinoamericana y sus desafíos en relación a la garantía del derecho a la preparación profesional y su inserción y permanencia ...
La patrimonialización del territorio y las violaciones a los derechos humanos en México: El caso de Chinkultic, Chiapas
(2022)
El artículo discute el caso de la masacre de Chinkultic Chiapas ocurrida en el año 2008, con la intención de identificar los factores implicados en el conflicto entre elementos policiales del Estado y un grupo de campesinos ...
Discurso neoindigenista en el parador turístico yaqui
(2022)
El Parador Turístico Yaqui (PTY) es un espacio monumental ubicado al sur del Estado de Sonora (México) del cual se destaca la estatua de un danzante de venado. El objetivo del estudio es analizar y definir el PTY como una ...