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Rural Capitalists and Development in Colonial Africa: A Comparative Analysis

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the emergence and role of rural capitalists in colonial Sub‐Saharan Africa by comparing three peasant‐based economies: Bechuanaland, the Gold Coast and Tanganyika. Using social tables, we estimate the population and income shares of better earning agricultural producers and assess their impact on rural inequality and ...
Prince Young Aboagye   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimizing nutritionally adequate food basket using linear programming in Niayes Households, Senegal. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Willane CT   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Integrating the In‐Laws: Class and Kin Support Within Marriage in Urban Kenya

open access: yesJournal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study compares affinal kin relationships in low‐income and higher‐income families in Nairobi, Kenya. Background In most studies of kinship structure and relationships in sub‐Saharan Africa, culture serves as the basis upon which norms and expectations of kin are differentiated.
Kirsten Stoebenau   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Feasibility and acceptability of systematic screening for depression among people with HIV in Senegal: a qualitative study among various stakeholders. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Psychiatry
Guichard M   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Governing Supply Chains for Societal Impact: What Can We Learn From Indigenous African Philosophies?

open access: yesJournal of Supply Chain Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Africa's growing role in global supply chains presents an important opportunity for more socially grounded and context‐sensitive research in supply chain management (SCM). Despite its economic and demographic significance, African contexts remain underrepresented in mainstream SCM scholarship, which limits understanding of the continent's ...
Sherwat Elwan Ibrahim   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ancestral Irrigation and Women's Political Empowerment

open access: yesKyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the adoption of irrigation agriculture during the preindustrial period is a predictor of contemporary cross‐country variation in women's political empowerment. Countries whose populations historically relied on irrigation agriculture as their primary subsistence mode tend to ...
Roberto Ezcurra
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating iSAT climate-informed agro-advisories for farm decisions and system performance in Senegal's drylands. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Joseph JE   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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