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Mediation and moderation roles of resilience capacity in the shock–food-security nexus in northern Ghana

This paper examines how resilience capacity mediates or moderates the relationship between weather shocks and household food security based on two waves of farm household survey and satellite-based weather data in northern Ghana and applying econometric models. Results show that...

Uploaded by: Isaac GK Ansah
Author: Ansah, Isaac GK | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5071-6224
Co-author: Kotu, Bekele Hundie | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5488-8426
Co-author: Manda, Julius | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9599-5906
Co-author: Muthoni, Francis | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6785-0550
Co-author: Azzarri, Carlo | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0345-1304
Publisher of document: [Amsterdam]: Elsevier B.V.
Published in: Ecological Economics, ISSN 0921-8009
Date: Accepted 13 May 2023 | Pages: 1-10
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.107894

Constitutionnalisation du droit a l’alimentation en Afrique de l’Ouest: cas du Niger

En Afrique de l’Ouest, les chiffres communiqués par la FAO dans son communiqué d’alerte du 07/12/21, sont accablants : 70 millions de personnes en situation de stress alimentaire dont 815.000 en urgence alimentaire dans la région sahélienne. A cela il...

Uploaded by: Zakaria YAHAYA NAMASSA
Author: YAHAYA NAMASSA, Zakaria
Publisher of document: Sevilla: Egregius Ediciones
Published in: Vers un droit à l’alimentation plus effectif au Sahel, ISBN 978-84-18167-72-0
Date: 01/31/2022 | Pages: 35-44
https://egregius.es/catalogo/vers-un-droit-a-lalimentation-plus-effectif-au-sahel/

The impact of growth mindset training on entrepreneurial action among necessity entrepreneurs: evidence from a randomized control trial

Although entrepreneurship training programs are designed to help necessity entrepreneurs acquire skills and capabilities to take entrepreneurial action, participants in these programs often fail to do so. In partnership with a local government agency, we conducted a randomized field experiment...

Uploaded by: Tumsifu Thomas
Author: Morris, Shad | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5796-6453
Co-author: Carlos, Chad | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5772-1939
Co-author: Kistruck, Geoffrey M. | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1852-8909
Co-author: Lount, Robert B. (Jr)
Co-author: Thomas, Tumsifu | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5600-0187
Publisher of document: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Strategic Management Society
Published in: Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, ISSN 1932-443X
Date: 7 June 2023 | Pages: 671-692
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sej.1472

Testing unemployment-entrepreneurship nexus in Namibia using the Schumpeterian approach

This study uses time series data from the World Bank database to examine the relationship between unemployment and entrepreneurship in Namibia. We applied the Augmented Dickey– Fuller and Phillips–Perron tests for unit root testing and found all the variables to...

Uploaded by: Dofilia Kaloia
Author: Nautwima, Johanna Pangeiko | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6153-5014
Co-author: Atiku, Sulaiman Olusegun | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9364-3774
Co-author: Asa, Asa Romeo | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7549-2949
Publisher of document: Basel, Switzerland: MDPI
Published in: Sustainability, EISSN 2071-1050
Date: 21 September 2023 | Pages: 15 pages
https://doi.org/10.3390/su151814023

A framework for personal health records in online social networkings

Since the early 20th century, the view has developed that high quality health care can be delivered only when all the pertinent data about the health of a patient is available to the clinician. Various types of health records have...

Uploaded by: Eldridge2 van der Westhuizen
Author: van der Westhuizen, Eldridge | ORCID: 0000-0002-6673-0490
Date: January 2012 | Pages: xiii, 123 leaves
http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1012382

"Asibizi": teaching human reproduction in rural Eastern Cape schools

The primary focus of this paper is to explore the possible influence of cultural taboos when teaching human reproduction content knowledge by isiXhosa speaking teachers in rural secondary schools of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Previous studies on Xhosa culture...

Uploaded by: Ayanda Simayi
Author: Simayi, Ayanda | ORCID: 0000-0002-5592-2745
Co-author: Webb, Paul | ORCID: 0000-0002-4118-8973
Publisher of document: Mumbai: Gaurang Publishing Globalize Pvt. Ltd. on behalf of Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Published in: Proceedings of EpisTEME 8: international conference to review research in science, technology and mathematics education, ISBN 9788194156796
Date: 2020 | Pages: 36-44

The place of supplementary irrigation: agriculture and sustainable rural transformation strategy in a changing climate: a review

Farmer productivity has been experiencing some decline for some decades now. There is some evidence that internal push factors such as conflicts, policy failure have affected productivity, Climate change impacts have contributed greatly to the decline in yield making rural...

Uploaded by: Nyarko Lawrence Fletcher
Author: Fletcher, Nyarko Lawrence | ORCID: 0000-0002-2232-0959
Co-author: LAFIA N'GOBI, Gnanki Mariam | ORCID: 0000-0001-5299-2054
Publisher of document: Cyberjaya, Selango (Malasia): Zibeline International Publishing SDN BHD
Published in: Ecofeminism and climate change (EFCC), 2633-4070 (Online), 2633-4062 (Print)
Date: 07 December 2022 | Pages: Pages 95-103

A process framework for big data research: social network analysis using design science

Managing and harnessing big data is increasingly being reported as an approach to generate business value, optimize decision-making, and achieve competitive advantage. There is strong evidence that research on big data has gained significant attention from both the academic community...

Uploaded by: John Oredo
Author: Oredo, John | ORCID: 0000-0002-7855-5175
Co-author: Dennehy Denis | ORCID: 0000-0001-9931-762X
Co-author: Gupta Samrat | ORCID: 0000-0002-3999-1177
Publisher of document: Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Published in: Handbook of big data research methods, ISBN 9781800888548, EISBN 9781800888555
Date: June 2023 | Pages: 27

Impacts of terrorism on biodiversity management in West African Sahel: a review

Over the past 50 years, a number of homegrown solutions and international development assistance have been initiated and implemented to address the West Africa Sahel region’s biodiversity resources decline. This ranges from indigenous/community led natural resources regeneration and land restoration...

Uploaded by: Nyarko Lawrence Fletcher
Author: Fletcher, Nyarko Lawrence | ORCID: 0000-0002-2232-0959
Co-author: Maman Bawa, Sakina | ORCID: 0000-0001-8717-5521
Co-author: Moussa, Soule | ORCID: 0000-0001-9125-1304
Publisher of document: Singapore: Bilingual Publishing Group
Published in: Research in Ecology, ISSN: 2661-3379
Date: 29 September 2022 | Pages: 10 pages
https://doi.org/10.30564/re.v4i3.4930

The effect of an intervention using GIS-generated geo-spatial data on the promotion of spatial cognition and spatial perspective taking in grade 11 learners

A question asked at the first national conference on the educational applications of geographical information systems (GIS) in Washington 1994, namely what learning does GIS allow that other ways do not and whether teaching GIS at school level is worth...

Uploaded by: Paul Webb
Author: Webb, Paul | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4118-8973
Co-author: Britz, H. W.
Publisher of document: Abingdon, Oxon U.K.: Taylor & Francis Group, ISSN 0373-6245 (Print), ISSN 2151-2418 (Electronic)
Published in: South African Geographical Journal
Date: 2016 | Pages: 182-193
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03736245.2014.977815