Vaccination services for people and livestock often fail to achieve sufficient coverages in Africa's remote rural settings because of financial, logistic, and service delivery constraints. In Chad from 2000 through 2005, we demonstrated the feasibility of combining vaccination programs for nomadi...
Schelling, E.
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Bechir, M.
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Ahmed, M.A.
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Wyss, K.
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Randolph, Thomas F.
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Zinsstag, Jakob
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[Human and animal vaccination delivery to remote nomadic families, Chad]
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Human and animal vaccination delivery to remote nomadic families, Chad
Poverty is a rural dilemma and continues to be a persistent multidimensional problem. It is associated with poor farmers, small farm systems, the landless, resource endowments, the socioeconomic environment and externalities. Over 75% of the poor live and work in rural areas, trapped in a poverty...
Devendra, C.
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Chantalakhana, C.
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[Animals, poor people and food insecurity: Opportunities for improved livelihoods through efficient natural resource management]
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Animals, poor people and food insecurity: Opportunities for improved livelihoods through efficient natural resource management
Ownership of assets is important for poverty reduction, and women’s control of assets is associated with positive development outcomes at the household and individual levels. This research was undertaken to provide guidance for agricultural development programs on how to incorporate gender and as...
Johnson, Nancy L.
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Kovarik, C.
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Njuki, Jemimah
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Quisumbing, Agnes R.
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[Gender, assets, and agricultural development: Lessons from eight projects]
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Gender, assets, and agricultural development: Lessons from eight projects
Men and women interact with water resources and landscapes in different ways, and there are frequent criticisms that little research is undertaken across disciplines to address this issue. Biophysical scientists in particular struggle with how to integrate “gendered” water uses into models that a...
Baker, Tracy
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Cullen, Beth
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Debevec, Liza
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Abebe, Yenenesh
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[A socio-hydrological approach for incorporating gender into biophysical models and implications for water resources research.]
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A socio-hydrological approach for incorporating gender into biophysical models and implications for water resources research.
Deere, Carmen Diana
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Contreras, Jacqueline
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Twyman, Jennifer
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[Patrimonial violence: A study of women’s property rights in Ecuador]
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Patrimonial violence: A study of women’s property rights in Ecuador
Information from 400 randomly selected female farmers was obtained during the year 1997 to assess the production performance of backyard chicken in Charsadda district, North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Pakistan. Only 16.3% of the farmers were regularly vaccinating their flocks. The majority o...
Farooq, M.
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Gul,N.
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Chand, N.
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Durrani, F.R.
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Khurshid, A.
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Ahmed, J.
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Asghar, A.
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Zahir-ud-Din.
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[Production performance of backyard chicken under the care of women in Charsadda, Pakistan]
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Production performance of backyard chicken under the care of women in Charsadda, Pakistan
This brief article documents author's reasons for considering the answer to be "yes." She draws first on her extensive ethnographic experience in forest communities in the US and in several forested areas of Indonesia, with examples. Her second source of conviction in this view comes from her inv...
In recent years, rural households throughout Indonesia have faced a variety of crises, including severe drought, smoke from forest fires, and floods - all of which have affected subsistence farming. Simultaneous with these problems has been the wider Asian economic crisis that destabilized Indone...
Wadley, R.L.
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[Coping with crisis - smoke, drought, flood and currency: Iban women and their households in West Kalimantan]
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Coping with crisis - smoke, drought, flood and currency: Iban women and their households in West Kalimantan
Galiè, Alessandra
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Mulema, Annet A.
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Mora Benard, María Alejandra
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Onzere, S.
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Colverson, Kathleen E.
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[Exploring gender perceptions of resource ownership and their implications for food security among rural livestock owners in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua]
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Exploring gender perceptions of resource ownership and their implications for food security among rural livestock owners in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua
Africa has 25 percent of the world’s arable land, yet it cannot boast of food sufficiency let alone tapping into food export opportunities. It is no longer news that the women folks in Africa are greatly marginalised and confronted by numerous challenges. Meanwhile, youth engagement in agricultur...
Abioye, O.
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Ogunniyi, A.
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[Coldspots and Hotspots of Agriculture in Nigeria; Any Hope for Youth and Women?]
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Coldspots and Hotspots of Agriculture in Nigeria; Any Hope for Youth and Women?