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The impact of COVID-19 on consumption poverty in Mozambique. [PDF]
J Int Dev, 2022 Abstract This study assesses the impact of COVID‐19 on household consumption poverty. To predict changes in income and the associated effects on poverty, we rely on existing estimated macroeconomic impacts. We assume two main impact channels: direct income/wage and employment losses.
Barletta G +5 more
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Cash grants to informal firms after Cyclone Idai: beyond the null. [PDF]
DisastersAbstract This study investigates the effects of unconditional cash grants on informal manufacturing firms’ recovery after Cyclone Idai struck Mozambique in 2019. Using a novel stratified adaptive cluster sampling approach, we collected representative panel data from firms in Beira (heavily affected) and Chimoio (less affected).
Berkel H, Fisker P, Tarp F.
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Mozambique's Colonial-Era Non-Human Primate Collection at the National Museum of Natural History and Science of Lisbon: Taxonomy, Provenance, and Historical Context. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives This study reviews Mozambique's non‐human primate collection housed at the National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC) in Lisbon. The collection originates from the Zoological Missions of Mozambique (1948 and 1955) carried out under Portuguese colonial administration. The objectives of this work were to: i.
Osório M, Veracini C.
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Water mass characteristics in a shallow bank highly influenced by river discharges: the Sofala Bank in Mozambique [PDF]
Revista de Gestão Costeira Integrada, 2015 Les données hydrologiques recueillies entre 2003 et 2007 ont été analysées afin de décrire les masses d'eau du banc de Sofala dans le canal du Mozambique, une région sous l'influence du débit sortant du fleuve Zambèze. L'analyse des données a consisté en l'inspection visuelle de la température et de la salinité combinée à l'analyse de la variance pour ...
Fialho Paloge Juma Nehama +2 more
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Fertility rates and social media usage in sub‐Saharan Africa
Population, Space and Place, Volume 29, Issue 4, May 2023., 2023 Abstract This study examines the connection between social media usage and fertility behaviour in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). Whereas the link between traditional media and fertility behaviour has been firmly established, the link between social media and fertility is yet unclear, although social media has expanded enormously in recent years and provides
Jet Wildeman +2 more
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Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 23, Issue 1, Page 185-203, January 2023., 2023 Abstract After nearly two and a half decades with a Land Law widely considered progressive, Mozambique is preparing to revise its legal framework for land. Land activists accuse the government of pursuing an authoritarian approach, excluding civil society participation, and falsifying public consultations.
Boaventura Monjane
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Political ecologies of resettlement in river deltas
Geography Compass, Volume 16, Issue 6, June 2022., 2022 Abstract In river deltas, human interference with regional and global socio‐ecological systems has led to a plethora of gradual and more abrupt environmental changes that result in inundation, coastal and river bank erosion, land loss and, ultimately, displaced people. Often apolitically framed as protective, state‐led transfer of people to new housing
Friedrich Nikolaus Neu +1 more
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Infrastructure Improvements and Maize Market Integration: Bridging the Zambezi in Mozambique
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 103, Issue 2, Page 620-642, March 2021., 2021 Historically, transport infrastructure connecting the most agriculturally productive areas of Mozambique and the richer southern region has been poor. A primary bottleneck was an unreliable ferry service over the Zambezi river, addressed by construction of a road bridge in 2009.
Sam Jones, César Salazar
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African Journal of Ecology, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 190-203, March 2021., 2021 Abstract Ecosystems with highly pulsed water supply must be better understood as climate change may increase frequency and severity of intense storms, droughts and floods. Here we collected data over 3 years (2016–2018) in the episodic wetland outflow channel (Aluize), Banhine National Park, in which the system state changed from dry to wet to dry ...
Markus Klemens Zaplata +5 more
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Modelling the tides and their impacts on the vertical stratification over the Sofala Bank, Mozambique [PDF]
African Journal of Marine Science, 2016 The Sofala Bank, a wide shelf located along the central coast of Mozambique, hosts tides with high amplitudes. The Regional Ocean Modelling System (ROMS) was used to analyse the tidal currents on the bank and to investigate their effects on the stratification and generation of tidal fronts.
Chevane, C. M. +3 more
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