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Exploring the role of interest rates, macroeconomic environment, agricultural cycle, and gender on loan demand in the agricultural sector: Evidence from Mali

open access: yesAgribusiness, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 484-512, Spring 2024.
Abstract Formal credit plays an important role for the development of the agriculture sector in developing countries because many farmers are characterized as liquidity constrained. Access to credit can increase farmers' purchasing power for inputs and agricultural technology, thus raising the overall productivity.
Tim Ölkers, Oliver Mußhoff
wiley   +1 more source

Mali: Visions of War

open access: yesStability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2013
Political elites in Bamako articulate different understandings of the war in northern Mali, though share the same view on the restoration of Malian sovereignty.
Roland Marchal
doaj   +1 more source

Ecology and power in the periphery of Maasina : the case of the Hayre in the nineteenth century [PDF]

open access: yes
This article explores political tensions between successive nineteenth-century rulers of the inland delta of the Niger in central Mali (the Fulbe Diina of Hamdullahi and the Futanke successors of al-Hajj Umar) and the pastoral interests of the Fulbe ...
Bruijn, M., de, Dijk, H., van
core   +1 more source

Henri Duveyrier et Cheikh ‘Othmân, cartographes du Sahara

open access: yesL’Année du Maghreb, 2011
The book published by Henri Duveyrier in 1864 under the title Tuaregs of the North included a 1/3000000 scale map which was considered for decades as the reference map of the Sahara.
Dominique Casajus
doaj   +1 more source

Tuareg

open access: yes
Lexikon nicht-staatlicher Gruppen und Gemeinschaften im Mittelmeerraum ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Power, Law and Blood: Sources of Patriarchy in the Middle East [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This unpublished article was kindly provided to BU's institutional repository for deposit by the ...
Lindholm, Charles
core   +1 more source

Outline of an Anthropological Contribution to the Study of Snake Venom Variability: The Case of Echis sp. Envenomation

open access: yesEthnobiology Letters, 2014
An understanding of the variability of snake venom composition is of high relevance for adequate treatment of snakebites. Clinical observations of bite victims are considered as a first step in the study of venom variability.
Tilman Musch
doaj   +1 more source

Goyemide on slavery: the liberating power of the word [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This article looks at Etienne Goyemide's novel, Le Dernier survivant de la caravane, a mythical foundation story set in the last years of the 19th century which records an episode of the northern slave trade in Banda land, RCA, and throws some light on ...
Ugochukwu, F.
core  

Roving Bandits? The Geographical Evolution of African Armed Conflicts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The fighting in some civil wars primarily takes place in a few stable locations, while the fighting in others moves substantially. We posit that rebel groups that do not primarily fight for a specific ethnic group, that receive outside military ...
Arreguin-Toft   +59 more
core   +1 more source

La proliferación estatal: Kosovo, Sudán del Sur y ¿Azawad?

open access: yesEstudios en Seguridad y Defensa, 2012
Aunque el ideal de la independencia es frecuentemente asociado con la libertad, no existe certeza de ello. Por el contrario, la ausencia de una serie de reglas claras con respecto a las condiciones para acceder al estatuto de Estado-nación termina ...
Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir
doaj   +1 more source

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