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Improving agricultural soil health with feces-derived compost: a case study in northern Haiti

Frontiers in Environmental Science
Ecological Sanitation (EcoSan) may help achieve multiple United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, such as SDG 2, SDG 6, and SDG 13, through circular management of local biogeochemical cycles.
Elena Bischak, Patrick Ward, Julie Jeliazovski, Claire Remington, Yamouch Bazile, Sasha Bryn Kramer, Winnie Felix-Jean, Rebecca Ryals   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enhancing Livelihoods Fund: Video training at scale for smallholder farmers – learnings and success factors

, 2020
The Enhancing Livelihoods Fund (ELF), a joint initiative between Oxfam, Unilever and the Ford Foundation, supported a project in India that developed and rolled out a video-based training manual to more than 10,000 smallholder farmers in the ...
Joras, Ulrike, Newcombe-Ling, Elen, Stewart, Alistair   +2 more
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Key lessons from Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities’ farming systems: insights from a global review

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Indigenous and traditional farming systems, used and practised by the Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs), over millennia, offer viable, secure, and diverse solutions to many problems caused by the modern agricultural systems, such as soil ...
Kamaljit K. Sangha, Samy Andres Leyton-Flor, Getahun Kassa, Ronju Ahammad, Sangay Dendup   +4 more
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Prevalence of overweight and obesity among selected schoolchildren and adolescents in Cofimvaba, South Africa

The South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2021
Background: Childhood obesity has become a growing global epidemic. In South Africa, overweight and obesity during childhood and adolescence are rising.
Olufunmilola Otitoola, Wilna Oldewage-Theron, Abdul Egal   +2 more
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Dynamics of bird assemblages in response to temporally and spatially variable resources in arid Australia

Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Bird assemblages in arid Australia are often characterized as being highly variable through time in response to boom and bust dynamics, although the importance of habitat in structuring assemblages at a local‐scale is also recognized.
Bruce A. Pascoe, Chris R. Pavey, Stephen R. Morton, Christine A. Schlesinger   +3 more
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Evidence‐Informed Multidisciplinary Consensus Guidance for the Psychosocial Care of Adolescents With High‐Risk Cancer: Recommendations From the Italian Association of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Adolescents with high‐risk cancer face complex developmental, psychosocial, and ethical challenges that extend beyond disease‐directed treatment. Although international recommendations exist for communication, psychosocial care, pediatric palliative care, survivorship, and shared decision‐making, these have largely evolved within ...
Johanna M. C. Blom, Dorella Scarponi, Giulia Zucchetti, Teresa Perillo, Maria Montanaro, Elisa Marconi, Chiara Rutigliano, Paolo Colavero, Paola Quarello, Marina Bertolotti, Monica Cellini, Carlo Clerici, Maurizio Mascarin, Francesca Bomben, Andrea Ferrari, the expert workgroup   +15 more
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Planning for sustainable urban livelihoods in Africa [PDF]

, 2022
This chapter explores the role, success and failures of spatial planning in shaping African cities and its influence on livelihoods. To date, planning in Africa has largely failed to address the needs and livelihoods of the poor and struggled to address ...
Bakare, H, Bryson, John R., Bryson, John R.,, Melgaço, L, Melgaço, Lorena, Bakare, Hakeem, Andres, Lauren,, Denoon-Stevens, S, Denoon-Stevens, Stuart Paul,, Bryson, JR, Denoon-Stevens, SP, Bakare, Hakeem; id_orcid, Andres, Lauren, Melgaco Silva Marques, Lorena, Andres, L, Denoon-Stevens, Stuart Paul, Bryson, John R.; id_orcid, Bakare, Hakeem,, Melgaço, Lorena,, Lund University.   +19 more
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A review of conservation-related benefit-sharing mechanisms in Tanzania

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022
Benefit-sharing has been instrumental in empowering local communities living on the edge of protected areas to engage in natural resource management and enhance biodiversity conservation outcomes. Tanzania has various categories of protected area managed
Juma J. Kegamba, Kamaljit K. Sangha, Penelope Wurm, Stephen T. Garnett   +3 more
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Early Body Mass Index z‐Score Change and Resolution of Severe Malnutrition in Children With Sickle Cell Anemia in a Low‐Income Setting: A Prospective Single‐Arm Extension Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) in low‐income settings are at risk of severe malnutrition, but optimal nutritional management has not been established. We evaluated an intensified ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) regimen in children with persistent severe malnutrition after initial treatment and assessed whether early ...
Safiya Gambo, Shehu Umar Abdullahi, Hassan Adam Murtala, Halima Kabir, Khadija A. Shamsu, Sari A. Acra, Virginia A. Stallings, Mark Rodeghier, Michael R. DeBaun, Lauren J. Klein   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors affecting conception rate in AI bred cattle under field conditions of Bihar

Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2019
Data on 1,28,075 artificial inseminations (AI) performed during 6 years (January 2010 to November 2015) on 1,02,386 field animals owned by 55,685 farmers’ from 69 cattle development centres spread across four districts of Bihar were collected and ...
K BANSAL, R L BHAGAT, A K SINHA, A L YADAV, N L PHADKE   +4 more
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