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Influence of Wildlife Crop Raiding on Subsistence Farmers' Food Security Adjacent to Hluhluwe Game Reserve, South Africa

open access: yesConservation & Society, 2021
Worldwide, subsistence farmers have expressed concerns about food shortage due to crop raiding by wildlife. We investigated the effects of crop-raiding on homestead food security of subsistence farmers on the edge of the Hluhluwe Game Reserve, South ...
Tlou D Raphela, Neville Pillay
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HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR IN TERNATE, INDONESIA [PDF]

open access: yesRussian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2017
This study aims to analyze the influence of lifestyle, age, size of household, environment, and income on household consumption behavior; test the suitability or deviation from the existing economic theories; select existing regional macroeconomic ...
Sun’an M., Husen A.
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Effects of access to livelihood capitals on adoption of European Union (EU) approved pesticides among cocoa producing households in Osun State, Nigeria

open access: yesAgricultura Tropica et Subtropica, 2021
Cocoa producing households’ access to livelihood capitals would help them to adopt EU approved pesticides successfully. However, no empirical studies have addressed these issues.
Kehinde Ayodeji Damilola   +1 more
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Changing Food Consumption Patterns and Land Requirements for Food in the Six Geopolitical Zones in Nigeria

open access: yesFoods, 2022
Research on food consumption in Nigeria has mainly focused on food intake, household diversity, and purchasing power. We investigated a knowledge gap for food consumed by households and the land requirements for food resulting from household consumption ...
Jeffrey Chiwuikem Chiaka   +2 more
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Fertility, household size and poverty in Nepal [PDF]

open access: yesWorld Development, 2018
Population control policies keep attracting attention: by increasing the household size, having more children would directly contribute to a household’s poverty. Using nationally representative household level data from Nepal, we investigate the links between a household’s fertility decisions and variations in their size and composition.
Libois, François, Somville, Vincent
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The Issue of Measuring Household Consumption Expenditure

open access: yesEconomies, 2023
Household consumption expenditure is an important measure of economic activity as it reflects the spending behavior of households and their purchasing power.
Emilia Madudova, Tatiana Corejova
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Household age structure and consumption in Serbia [PDF]

open access: yesEkonomski Anali, 2012
The influence of demographic variables on household consumption level and structure is understood but insufficiently studied in Serbia. This paper analyzes the connection between age as a demographic variable, and the size and structure of household ...
Radivojević Biljana, Vasić Petar
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On Projecting the Distribution of Private Households by Size [PDF]

open access: yesInstitut für Demographie - VID, 2021
The paper introduces a general approach to distributing households by size, which is based on recurrent procedure of estimating conditional proportions of households of a given size among households with the same or larger size. Based on formal study and on empirical evidence, models and methods are proposed for deriving the distribution of households ...
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Drivers of change in US residential energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, 1990–2015

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2021
Annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from residential energy use in the United States peaked in 2005 at 1.26 Gt CO _2-eq yr ^−1 , and have since decreased at an average annual rate of 2% yr ^−1 to 0.96 Gt CO _2-eq yr ^−1 in 2019.
Peter Berrill   +2 more
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Average Household Size and the Eradication of Malaria [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 2013
SummaryMalaria has disappeared in some countries but not others, and an explanation for the pattern remains elusive. We show that the probability of eradication of malaria jumps sharply when average household size drops below four people. Part of the effect that is commonly attributed to income growth is likely to be due to declining household size ...
Lena Hulden   +2 more
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