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Using a phone-based learning tool as an instructional resource for initial literacy learning in rural African families

South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2020
Background: Despite increased enrolments at primary schools in Zambia, more than half of the children in Grades 1–4 are unable to meet the required minimum standards for literacy.
Jacob C. Nshimbi, Robert Serpell, Jari Westerholm   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Contraceptive use and fertility transitions: The distinctive experience of sub-Saharan Africa

Demographic Research, 2022
Background: Continued rapid population growth in sub-Saharan Africa is driven predominantly by high fertility. Contraceptive use was a key determinant of past fertility transitions.
Aisha Dasgupta, Mark Wheldon, Vladimíra Kantorová, Philipp Ueffing   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Did the Indian Green Revolution Change the Farm Size–Productivity Relationship?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between farm size and productivity during India's Green Revolution, a period of rapid technological transformation. Using a unique panel of over 5000 Indian farm households that spans the Green Revolution (1971–1999), we show that the classic (linear) inverse farm size–productivity relationship gradually evolved ...
Rabail Chandio, Leah E. M. Bevis
wiley   +1 more source

Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia, John Olwande, Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert, David L. Mather, Nicole M. Mason   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková, Michiel van Dijk, Robert M'Barek, Hans van Meijl, Tomas Ratinger   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hepatitis E in Sub Saharan Africa – A significant emerging disease

One Health, 2020
Hepatitis E is an emerging endemic disease found across the African continent, but there are clear differences in epidemiology between North Africa and countries south of the Sahara.
Husein Bagulo, Ayodele O. Majekodunmi, Susan C. Welburn   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Goiter surgery recommendations in sub‐Saharan Africa in humanitarian cooperation

Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology, 2022
Background The standard treatment for endemic goiter is usually total thyroidectomy. In low‐ and middle‐income countries, the management of thyroid disease, which is commonplace in fully developed countries, is not always possible.
José Gil Martinez, Miguel González, Quiteria Hernández, María Angeles Rodríguez, Nuria Torregrosa, Elena Gil, Pedro Antonio Cascales, Miguel Angel Delgado, Joan Sancho, Victor Lopez‐Lopez, Jose Manuel Rodriguez   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hunting and sale of Pangolins across Sub-Saharan Africa: a preliminary analysis [PDF]

, 2016
Pangolins (Pholidota: Manidae) are hunted and traded for their meat and scales. We conducted preliminary analyses on the hunting and sale at markets of four species of pangolin across Sub-Saharan Africa based on data from the OFFTAKE database.
Coad, Lauren, Ingram, Daniel J, Scharlemann, Jorn P W   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah, Obed Quaicoe, Fafanyo Asiseh, John N. Ng'ombe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genome-wide SNP analysis of Southern African populations provides new insights into the dispersal of Bantu-speaking groups [PDF]

, 2015
The expansion of Bantu-speaking agropastoralist populations had a great impact on the genetic, linguistic, and cultural variation of sub-Saharan Africa. It is generally accepted that Bantu languages originated in an area around the present border between
ANAGNOSTOU, PAOLO, Busby, George B. J, Capelli, Cristian, DESTRO-BISOL, Giovanni, González Santos, Miguel, Montinaro, Francesco, Oosthuizen, Erica, Oosthuizen, Ockie, Pascali, Vincenzo   +8 more
core   +3 more sources