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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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The role of women's empowerment and domestic violence in child growth and undernutrition in a tribal and rural community in South India [PDF]
, 2008 Moderate undernutrition continues to affect 46 per cent of children under 5 years of age and 47 per cent of rural women in India. Women’s lack of empowerment is believed to be an important factor in the persistent prevalence of undernutrition.
Sethuraman, Kavita
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.To address the problems of insufficient utilization of multiscale features and inefficient feature sharing between tasks in the model, this study proposes an edge‐enhanced intelligent cervical cancer screening method that achieves feature reuse and improves efficiency by jointly optimizing nucleolus segmentation and lesion classification.
Li Wen +4 more
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Women's empowerment and child nutrition: The role of intrinsic agency
SSM: Population Health, 2019 Women's empowerment is associated with improved child nutrition, and both underpin the achievement of multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We examined pathways by which women's empowerment influences child nutritional status.
Rebecca Jones +5 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 This paper draws on data from five sub-Sahara African countries; Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi, Zambia, and Mozambique consisting of 10,041 married women who were cohabitating with a male spouse. The study aim was to investigate the relationship between women's
Michael Nnachebe Onah +2 more
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Listen to the Voices of Maasai Women in Kenya: Ensuring the Well-Being of their Families through Collective Actions [PDF]
, 2019 This is an ethnographic study that provides insight into grassroots activities managed by Maasai women leaders in the Narok area of Kenya. Four women’s narratives were used as a basis of analysis to demonstrate their roles in facilitating grassroots ...
Takayanagi, Taeko
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Women’s empowerment and the adoption of improved maize varieties: Evidence from Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania [PDF]
, 2016 Despite recent evidence that decisions about technology adoption often involve input from both men and women, the literature on technology adoption rarely considers gender and intrahousehold issues. In this paper, we use survey data from Ethiopia, Kenya,
Doss, Cheryl +4 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This paper presents an integrated AI‐driven cardiovascular platform unifying multimodal data, predictive analytics, and real‐time monitoring. It demonstrates how artificial intelligence—from deep learning to federated learning—enables early diagnosis, precision treatment, and personalized rehabilitation across the full disease lifecycle, promoting a ...
Mowei Kong +4 more
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Genus, 2022 Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is still present in many African countries, as well as a few others. The United Nations has targeted women’s empowerment in terms of both women’s health and gender equality as one of its Sustainable Development ...
Patrizia Farina +3 more
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