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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, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social investigation report of cVDPV2 outbreak in Dagahaley Refugee Camp, Dadaab Sub-County, Garissa County, Kenya, November 2021

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health
Introduction: A 17-month-old female from Somalia was found positive for poliovirus type two, which was genetically linked to environmental samples from Garissa County that had been in circulation for seven years.
Freshia Waithaka, Fredrick Ngeno, Hillary Limo, Wickliffe Mattini, Fredrick Odhiambo, Maurice Owiny   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cholera outbreak at a city hotel in Kenya, 2017: a retrospective cohort study

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health, 2022
Introduction: The Ministry of Health, Kenya (MOH) investigated a report on acute watery diarrhea (AWD) cases at a city hotel to confirm the cause, characterize, and identify associated factors.
Philip Ngere, Elvis Oyugi, Alexis Niyomwungere, Scolastica Wabwire, Adi Dahabo, Daniel Langat, Raphael Muli, Maurice Owiny   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk Sharing and Transactions Costs: Evidence from Kenya's Mobile Money Revolution

, 2014
We explore the impact of reduced transaction costs on risk sharing by estimating the effects of a mobile money innovation on consumption. In our panel sample, adoption of the innovation increased from 43 to 70 percent.
W. Jack, T. Suri
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The value of pastoralism in Kenya: Application of total economic value approach

Pastoralism, 2019
The value of pastoralism practiced in Kenya is not well appreciated, even though it is said to be enormous. The available statistics tend to underestimate this value from the point of view of its contribution to the local and national economies, due to ...
D. Nyariki, D. Amwata
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Delivering a family‐based child mental health promotion program among two resettled refugee communities during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Lessons learned in a hybrid type II implementation‐effectiveness randomized controlled trial

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Resettled refugee families face elevated mental health risks, compounded by structural and cultural barriers. The Family Strengthening Intervention for Resettlement (FSIR), co‐developed with resettled refugee communities, aims to improve family functioning and child mental health.
Euijin Jung, Candace Black, Matias Placencio‐Castro, Lila Chamlagai, Rilwan Osman, Morgan Hoffman, William Beardslee, Theresa S. Betancourt   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The overlay between demographic characteristics, spirituality and retirement planning, Kenya expose

Cogent Social Sciences, 2020
The subject of spirituality comes at a time when people are asking many questions about life and what the future holds, especially around the pandemic COVID-19.
Asenath Maobe
doaj   +1 more source

The catastrophic and impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket healthcare payments in Kenya, 2018

BMJ Global Health, 2019
Introduction Progress towards effective service coverage and financial protection—the two dimensions of Universal Health Coverage (UHC)—has been limited in Kenya in the last decade.
P. Salari, L. Di Giorgio, Stefania Ilinca, J. Chuma   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source