The majority of rural Indian households remain dependent on traditional, inefficient and harmful household energy technologies. Rural households make their energy decisions with respect to the Water-Energy-Food security ...

In Ethiopia, a quarter of children are child laborers, of which one in every three works full-time. Currently, more children than ever before also combine schooling with work. In addition, although net primary school ...

With the renewed focus on health for all through universal health coverage, community-based health insurance has been proposed both as a building block for health systems financing and also providing financial protection ...

Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) related burden of disease is one of the most important aspects of human capital formation. As WASH is a system issue, it needs to be investigated with many other complementary factors ...

Computational modelling for quantitative agricultural policy assessment in the EU employs more farm level oriented approaches in recent years. This follows policy instruments that increasingly target the farm level and ...

Investment and land use decisions pre-determine the distribution of other farm resources and thus constitute core farm activities. Investments at the farm level often include sunk costs, risks, returns-to-scale, investment ...

Consumer acceptance of novel technologies is a prerequisite for market adoption of the derived products. The transition towards a more sustainable bioeconomy in Europe requires product and process innovation that promotes ...