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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Improving the Impact of Market Reform on Agricultural Productivity in Africa: How Institutional Design Makes a Difference [PDF]

Improving the Impact of Market Reform on Agricultural Productivity in Africa: How Institutional Design Makes a Difference Abstract: This paper reviews the emerging empirical record of agricultural marketing policy reform and agricultural productivity ...
Jayne, Thomas S., Reardon, Thomas, Shaffer, James D., Staatz, John M.   +3 more
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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Food, Affluence and the Consumption Basket*

Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy, EarlyView.
There are significant disparities across nations in incomes and spending. For example, consumers in the poorest countries spend more than half of their income on food, while in the richest, this is one‐tenth or less. We use data from the International Comparison Program for 176 countries to estimate cross‐country demand equations focusing on food and ...
Hai Long Vo, Kenneth W. Clements
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Natural resources utilization the sylvopastoral region of Senegal : The answers of the pastoral populations facing tecll innovations [PDF]

, 2004
To promote a sustainable pastoral production, some ecological regions of Senegal particularly the one in the sylvopastoral Zone (ZSP) have been devoted to livestock raising.
Ancey, Véronique, Diop, Amadou Tamsir, Ickowicz, Alexandre, Touré, Ibra   +3 more
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Global Emergency Medicine: A Scoping Review of the Literature From 2024

Academic Emergency Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective The Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review (GEMLR) identifies impactful research in global emergency care. This 20th annual edition reviews GEM literature published in 2024 and highlights the growth of GEMLR over the years. Methods We conducted a scoping review of 2024 GEM articles through structured PubMed and gray literature ...
J. Austin Lee, Nana Serwaa A. Quao, Amanda Collier, Chris A. Rees, Morgan C. Broccoli, Nanaba A. Dawson‐Amoah, Vinay N. Kampalath, Joseph Ciano, Ashley Jacobson, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Leanza, Branden Skarpiak, Jonathan M. Strong, Braden J. Hexom, Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review (GEMLR) Group, Abdirahman Abdulle, Halley J. Alberts, Kimonia Bih Awanchiri, Emily Bartlett, Tal Berkowitz, Nidhi Bhaskar, Corey B. Bills, Joseph Bonney, Morgan C. Broccoli, Agatha Brzezinski, Whitney K. Bryant, Jonathan Chan, Joseph D. Ciano, Cassandra Clay, Ly Cloessner, Amanda Collier, Nanaba A. Dawson‐Amoah, Kamoga Dickson, Jonathan W. Dyal, Christian Engelen, Brandon Friedman, Stephanie Chow Garbern, Juliette Gerardo, Mindi Guptill, Reid Haflich, Alison S. Hayward, Braden J. Hexom, Taylor S. Hickey, Anneka Hooft, Emmanuel Oluyinka Idowu, Ashley A. Jacobson, Aqeel Jawahir, Jennifer E. Jones, Vinay N. Kampalath, Elizabeth M. Keating, Sean M. Kivlehan, Arthi S. Kozhumam, Colleen E. Laurence, Joseph Leanza, Samuel Lewis, J. Austin Lee, Gideon Loevinsohn, Parker Maddox, Mallika Manyapu, Michael Mathelier, Kevin J. Mercer, Rmaah Memon, Kevin Molyneux, Dana Naamani, Benjamin D. Nicholson, Hannah Ofosua Owusu, Gerard M. O’Reilly, Mayur Patel, Nana Serwaa Agyeman Quao, Sarah Rapaport, Chris A. Rees, Charlotte Roy, Megan M. Rybarczyk, Jessica Schmidt, Megan L. Schultz, Anand Selvam, Erin F. Shufflebarger, Yusra Shakil, Branden Skarpiak, Cheyenne Smith, Jonathan M. Strong, Janet Jebichii Sugut, Fadhila Tekka, W. Tyler Winders, Ann Wolski, Natalie Yabalwashi   +85 more
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Note sur la comparaison des propriétés molluscicides d'Ambrosia maritima (Egypte) et d'Ambrosia senegalensis (Sénégal) [PDF]

, 1986
Des travaux antérieurs ont montré que l'Ambrosia d'Egypte, en fait A. maritima sensu stricto, avait une action molluscicide plus forte que l'Ambrosia du Sénégal, Ambrosia senegalensis. L'une des raisons de cette différence étant justement qu'il s'agit de
Diaw, Omar Talla, Roberge, Guy, Vassiliades, Georges   +2 more
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Monitoring African Megafauna in an Anthropogenic Landscape: A 15‐Year Case Study of the Vulnerable West African Giraffe

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
We used pattern recognition software to correct misidentifications in a 15‐year photographic database of the last, vulnerable West African giraffe population in Niger. After revealing substantial methodological errors that had inflated population estimates by nearly 19%, we corrected individual encounter histories and applied capture‐mark‐recapture ...
Mara Vukelić, Ella W. White, Julian Fennessy, Abdoul Razack Moussa Zabeirou, Kateřina Gašparová, Simon Valle, Michael B. Brown, Thomas Rabeil, Karolína Brandlová   +8 more
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Smallholder Income and Land Distribution in Africa: Implications for Poverty Reduction Strategies [PDF]

This paper provides a micro-level foundation for discussions of income and asset allocation within the smallholder sector in Eastern and Southern Africa, and explores the implications of these findings for rural growth and poverty alleviation strategies ...
Benfica, Rui M.S., Chapoto, Antony, Jayne, Thomas S., Neven, David, Tschirley, David L., Weber, Michael T., Yamano, Takashi, Zulu, Ballard   +7 more
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“Welcome to France.” Can mandatory integration contracts foster immigrant integration?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract European governments, struggling with incorporating diverse immigrant populations, introduced integration contracts. Through language training and compulsory civics courses, these contracts aim to induce new migrants to adopt the host society's culture, respect its values, and improve their labor market outcomes.
Mathilde Emeriau, Jens Hainmueller, Dominik Hangartner, David D. Laitin   +3 more
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