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Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante, Armel Lekeufack, Nina Tamara Barbosa Ponce, Roger Amos Kañaa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global Apparel Value Chain in the Post‐MFA Era: Exploring Bangladesh's Competitive Edge

Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study revisits Bangladesh's competitive edge by examining patterns of global apparel trade during the post‐Multi‐Fibre Arrangement (MFA) era using a large bilateral panel of 27 leading apparel exporters trading with 163 destinations with coverage of 90% of the world apparel exports.
Abul Bashar Mohammed Fakhruzzaman
wiley   +1 more source

Are natural resources a curse on the distributional consequences of financial development?

Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines how natural resource dependence shapes the distributional effects of financial development in developing economies. Using a balanced panel of 90 countries from 1995 to 2022 and dynamic panel and nonlinear threshold methods, we show that financial development reduces wealth inequality when resource dependence is low, but ...
Dong‐Hyeon Kim, Shu‐Chin Lin, Peiyao Liu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The potential for academic and research institutions to support the Kunming‐Montréal global biodiversity framework

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract The implementation of the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) emphasizes a “whole‐of‐government and whole‐of‐society” approach to achieving ambitious goals and targets to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity.
Élie Pédarros, E. J. Milner‐Gulland, Colin M. Beale, Robert J. Brown, Ashley Dias, Arvin Diesmos, George Holmes, Hannah Nicholas, Onyeka Nwosu, Mohammad Khalid Sayeed Pasha, Mark Shirley, Philip A. Stephens, Erie Tamale, Philip J. K. McGowan   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Atlantic trade and the West African market economy: New evidence from cowry imports, 1650–1905

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, billions of cowries arrived in West Africa, leaving one of the few quantitative traces available for historians to measure the Atlantic trade's impact on the precolonial market economy. Yet, current estimates substantially underestimate the volume of cowry imports.
María José Pont Cháfer
wiley   +1 more source

Options for Income-Enhancing Diversification in Burkina Faso [PDF]

One of the objectives of this CEM was to identify the most promising products and conduct competitiveness diagnostic. The products list is summarized in Table 1 below.
Chandra, Vandana, Osorio Rodarte, Israel
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The Evolution of Terrorism‐Related Injuries in the Sahel: Perspective From Local Surgical Teams

World Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
S. Yves G. Sanou, Touré Moustapha, Abdoulaye Sanou, Yves Aziz R. Nacanabo, Hannah B. Wild   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Life Milestones That Contribute to Psychological Resilience for Entrepreneurship: A Life‐Story‐Based Approach With Migrant Women in Southern Spain

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant women often find a labor market segmented by gender, migrant status, and social class, with precarious working conditions in host societies. In this context, entrepreneurship emerges as an alternative way of overcoming structural inequities in the labor market, offering migrant women the opportunity to increase their economic autonomy ...
Cristina Peña‐Domínguez, Tatiana Duque, Begoña Duque‐Arroyo, Virginia Paloma   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving Decision‐Making in the Identification of Tephritidae Larvae at Import in the European Union and Key to Third Instar Larvae

Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Tephritidae family, or true fruit flies, comprises approximately 250 species recognized as economically significant due to their capacity to infest commercial fruits. These pests pose serious threats to both food security and trade, and are considered quarantine pests in areas where they are not yet established. In the European Union (EU),
Andrea Taddei, Pascal Rousse, Raphaëlle Mouttet, Sarah Chérasse, Christa Lethmayer, Elena Bacher, Chiara Pohn, Richard Alexander Gottsberger, Helga Reisenzein, Philippe Reynaud   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Protection and Food Security in Burkina Faso: School canteens

, 2015
Social protection policies related to food security in Burkina Faso play a crucial role in improving the well-being of the population. This report examines the school feeding programme in Burkina Faso; looking at the way it works and identifying key good
Suarez Sanchez, Isabel, Sanchez Garrido, Elia   +1 more
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