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Evaluation of Increasing Food and Livelihood Security in the Occupied Palestinian Territories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The 12 month project 'Increasing Food and Livelihood Security in the OPT' focused on South Hebron, the Jordan Valley and the Gaza Strip. The objective was to increase and diversify household food and cash income sources of vulnerable households.
Jafari, Osama   +2 more
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Urban Poverty: A Sociological Study of Shankhamul Squatter

open access: yesDhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 2011
The paper aims to identify the nature of poverty of squatter of Kathmandu valley in the context of exploring urban poverty. It has conceptualized poverty, urbanization, slum, and squatter.
Bala Ram Acharya
doaj   +1 more source

From mice to humans—divergent strategies for intestinal homeostasis and regeneration

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Recent advances such as organoid genome editing, xenotransplantation, imaging, and whole‐genome sequencing have enabled direct studies of human intestinal stem cells (ISCs). These studies reveal species‐specific features, including slower ISC proliferation, distinct injury responses, slower somatic mutation accumulation in humans, and an inverse ...
Keiko Ishikawa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond fetching water for livestock: A gendered sustainable livelihood framework to assess livestock-water productivity

open access: yes, 2005
Metadata only recordIn this paper, the authors assert that within recent development initiatives aimed at improving access to quality water, the use of water in livestock maintenance and production as a livelihood strategy is largely ignored.
Van Hoeve, E., van Koppen, B.
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Livelihood Vulnerability of Riverine-Island Dwellers in the Face of Natural Disasters in Bangladesh

open access: yesSustainability, 2019
Bangladesh is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. In particular, its riverine-island (char) dwellers face continuous riverbank erosion, frequent flooding, and other adverse effects of climate change that increase their vulnerability ...
Md Nazirul Islam Sarker   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Phosphoinositides and inositol phosphates as molecular glues

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Inositol phosphates (IPs) and phosphoinositides (PIPs) regulate diverse eukaryotic processes. Beyond recruiting signaling proteins or acting as structural cofactors, recent studies suggest they mediate protein–protein interactions as natural molecular glues.
Aleshia Seaton‐Terry   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable livelihood opportunities for tribal communities through inclusive ecotourism

open access: yesDiscover Sustainability
Eco-tourism is increasingly promoted as a sustainable development strategy that can simultaneously advance environmental conservation and enhance the livelihoods of indigenous communities.
Megha Bhatt   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

PARK(ing) time–How park deficiency affects the biological clock in a Drosophila model of Parkinson's disease

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Drosophila park mutants serve as a model for Parkinson's disease. We used this strain to investigate the connection between oxidative stress and the circadian clock mechanism. We showed that increased oxidative stress affects the physiology of pacemaker cells, disrupting their daily structural plasticity. Lack of rhythmic signaling from pacemaker cells
Kamila Zientara   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Livelihood strategies in the rural Kenyan highlands

open access: yes
The concept of a livelihood strategy has become central to development practice in recent years. Nonetheless, precise identification of livelihoods in quantitative data has remained methodologically elusive.
Brown, Douglas R.   +4 more
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Livelihood Strategies And Livelihood System of Dryland Farmers

open access: yesAgrisocionomics: Jurnal Sosial Ekonomi Pertanian
Dry land has great potential to support increased agricultural production, but its status is critical and farmers generally have weak capabilities (especially on capital). There is also a practice that destroys the environment and low technology adoption resulting in low income.
Rina Nuryati   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

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