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Proceedings / Food Legume - Production, Utilization and Storage Workshop, 21-24 Apr. 1981
Meeting: Food Legume Production Utilization Storage Workshop, 21-24 Apr. 1981, Freetown, SLMeeting: Workshop on Food Legume Production and Storage in Sierra Leone, 21-24 Apr.
University of Sierra Leone
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Abstract This article examines jurisprudence from key African and Latin American human rights bodies regarding the right to a healthy environment, with a focus on recent jurisprudence (2023–2025). It identifies a growing trend of an ecocentric interpretation of the right, which acknowledges that the environment and the life forms within it hold ...
Sonja Kahl
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Sierra Leone forest conservation concession
Metadata only recordApproximately 75,000 ha of the Gola Forest block will be placed under a conservation concession in Sierra Leone under a deal with the Conservation Society of Sierra Leone and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. This 25-year
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds +1 more
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Integrating food systems into the international climate law and policy framework
Abstract While responsible for nearly one‐third of global greenhouse gas emissions, food systems long remained peripheral to the legal and political architecture of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This article outlines the policy shifts that have led food systems to become increasingly central to the UNFCCC and its ...
Enrico Mezzacapo, Josephine van Zeben
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Details are given of the Institute and its activities, in particular the research projects being undertaken. These include studies on the marine molluscs of Sierra Leone, the cockle fishery, a preliminary investigation on the fouling organisms affecting ...
Okera, W.
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“I Paid A Bribe”—Lessons and Insights From Crowdsourced Corruption Reporting in India
ABSTRACT Preventing and reducing corruption has proven to be an enormous challenge. An important step in this process is to produce and use good metrics to identify where anti‐corruption resources would be most beneficial. Most measures of corruption, however, rely on surveys of perceptions or bribery incidence.
Ina Kubbe +2 more
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Natural Resources and Political Patronage in Africa: An Ethnicity Level Analysis
ABSTRACT We investigate the effect of resource discoveries on ethnicity‐level political patronage in Africa using a large geospatial dataset of 254 ethnic groups in 15 countries over the period 1960–2004. We find that the first (or single first) resource discovery in a virgin ethnic homeland increases the share of cabinet posts of that ethnicity.
Sambit Bhattacharyya, Nemera Mamo
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Sierra Leone: Recent developments in agricultural research
Agricultural research and development (R&D) in Sierra Leone virtually ceased in the 1990s due to the ravages of civil war. Several researchers were killed by rebels, research facilities and equipment were destroyed or severely damaged, and many research ...
Momoh, John, Stads, Gert-Jan
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