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Adolescent Girls Economic Opportunities Study in Rwanda [PDF]
, 2013 This study aims to understand the economic barriers and constraints facing adolescent girls in Rwanda, as well as the opportunities for building assets, increasing empowerment, and tackling discriminatory institutions so that girls can better access and ...
Karishma Huda, Rebecca Calder
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate variability is affecting the productivity, profitability, and resilience of smallholder dairy producers in developing countries. The adoption of climate‐smart (CS) dairy practices has been promoted to mitigate these negative effects. However, while interest in dairy CS practices is growing, empirical evidence on their adoption patterns
Mercy Mburu +4 more
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Economic empowerment through Kaaps
Multilingual Margins: A journal of multilingualism from the periphery, 2016 As a regional variety, Kaaps can be seen as a driver of social, cultural, educational and economic interaction in specific contexts. However, the economic value of Kaaps and its role in economic empowerment in these contexts have not yet been properly researched.
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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Saving Lives, Promoting Democracy, Alleviating Poverty, and Fighting AIDS: The Case for Funding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Populations [PDF]
, 2010 Outlines how advocacy for LGBT rights contribute to broader human rights, criminal justice reform, and development efforts. Calls for funding for hate crimes prevention, HIV/AIDS education, economic empowerment, and local organizations' capacity ...
Liz Galst
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Randomization for women’s economic empowerment? Lessons and limitations of randomized experiments
, 2020 Worldwide, policy-makers and academics alike are searching for ways to enhance women’s economic empowerment. One important route to economic empowerment – paid employment – still shows wide gender disparities.
J. Pieters, Stephan Klasen
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Cost‐Benefit Analysis of the European Union Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in Fertilizer Trade
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), launching 2026, will charge EU importers for embedded carbon emissions, aiming to reduce emissions but raising import costs. Shifts in demand following implementation may reduce carbon emissions, but importers will bear the cost of increased prices.
Natalie Crisci +3 more
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An Analysis of the State of Empowerment of Females vis-à-vis Males at Old Ages in India [PDF]
The problem of ageing population in the developing countries has a special gender dimension as females not only outnumber males among older adults, but also differ from their male counterparts with respect to economic status, marital status and health ...
Bakshi, Sanjeev, Pathak, Prasanta
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Journeys of Transformation: A Training Manual for Engaging Men as Allies in Women's Economic Empowerment [PDF]
, 2012 This manual provides group education sessions for engaging men as allies in women's economic empowerment. It emerges from CARE's experience, in Rwanda and elsewhere, that women's economic empowerment works, but that it can be made to work better and to ...
Gary Barker, Henny Slegh, Piotr Pawlak
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