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Higher education in the Southern African development community - a vision
, 2002 The Education and Training Protocol of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and its implications for regional cooperation in the provision of higher education in South Africa are discussed.
Kamper, GD, GD Kamper
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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A Socio-Historical Approach to Regional Organizational Relations?
PolitikonThe extant academic literature in the field of regional International Relations has paid little attention to non-state actors’ organizational relations in building region-ness.
Cecilia Lwiindi Nedziwe
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Constitutionalising a Human Right to Water in the Southern African Development Community
Utrecht Law Review, 2020 At present no binding human rights instrument referring to an explicit right to water exists within the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) human rights legal framework.
Michelle Barnard
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor +3 more
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, 2011 With ever increasing urgency, the United Nations (UN) has worked to develop the budding security relationship between itself and regional economic communities (RECs) in Africa, especially the African Union (AU), the Economic Community of West African ...
Ancas, S, S Ancas
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török +6 more
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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Big sugar in southern Africa : rural development and the perverted potential of sugar/ethanol exports [PDF]
, 2010 This paper asks how investment in large-scale sugar cane production has contributed, and will contribute, to rural development in southern Africa. Taking a case study of the South African company Illovo in Zambia, the argument is made that the potential ...
Richardson, Ben, Ben Richardson
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Institutional roles in moderating energy-led growth in African Regional Economic Communities
Academia Green EnergyThis study examines how institutional factors shaped the link between energy consumption and economic growth across eight African Regional Economic Communities: Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD), Common ...
Musa Ilias Biala +2 more
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