The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
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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The contemporary world is a small global village and the Muslim world is no exception to that village, since most of the power, wealth, technology is in the hands of non-Muslim and arrogant governments.
Abedin Momeni +2 more
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Analysis of the Nature of Joint-Stock Companies and Their Compatibility with Islamic Jurisprudence [PDF]
The most significant jurisprudential challenge regarding joint-stock companies lies in identifying their nature and position among Islamic jurisprudential company models, as well as determining whether a joint-stock company is a contractual agreement or ...
Sayyed Abbas Ahmadiyan +2 more
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The Islamic Jurisprudential-Legal Status of Dowry in Iran’s Law System with Focus on the Family Protection Act (SC 1391) [PDF]
When the Family Protection Act codified in 1391 (SC) by the parliament some believed that it is a pro-women law, especially Article 22 which was relevant to the obtaining dowry from husband. The Article also determined for the dowry a certain amount. The
Abdolah Bahmanpouri, soheila jafarpour
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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China
ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
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EDITORIAL: MUSLIM SCHOLARS TOWARDS WESTERN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH [PDF]
It could be spoken up that ‘ulama’ of classical and medieval ages carried out interdisciplinary approaches in dealing with difficulties they had encountered in understanding Islamic texts or teachings. This could be indicated from a number of the ‘ulama’
Editor Al-Jami'ah: Journal of Islamic Studies +1 more
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ABSTRACT Evidence on developmental milestones in children with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC) under the age of five is scarce. This multisite cross‐sectional study described developmental status and examined factors associated with milestone attainment in 143 children aged 0–66 months from a pediatric AMC Registry.
Ahlam Zidan +13 more
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino +3 more
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Investigating the Public Execution of Punishments from the Perspective of Pathology and the Jurists [PDF]
The purpose of this article is to answer the questions: What is psychic fight and its operations? Doesitsexamplesreasoning originate from the legal reasoning and is it acceptable by Islam and EmamyeFaghihs’ viewpoints? Or its acceptance is limited by the
Mohammad Javad Pourhosseini +2 more
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Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia
ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
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