Poverty and gender perspectives in marine spatial planning: Lessons from Kwale County in coastal Kenya
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Abstract: Kenya, like many other countries, is increasingly relying on a Blue Economy approach to ensure its sustainable development, an approach founded on the premise of poverty eradication by providing sustainable livelihoods and decent work, supplying food and minerals, generating oxygen, absorbing greenhouse gases, mitigating the impacts of climate change, and serving as highways for sea-based international trade.
Gendered sweetpotato trait preferences and implications for improved variety acceptance in Uganda
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AbstractThe principal selection objective in crop breeding has for a long time been driven by agronomic gains like yield maximization and climate resilience. Nevertheless, the continued low adoption of new varieties and documented gender technology adoption gap has triggered re‐thinking of this strategy, with end‐user acceptability of released varieties a key strategy in breeding objectives.
Gendered sweetpotato trait preferences and implications for improved variety acceptance in Uganda
EfD Authors:
AbstractThe principal selection objective in crop breeding has for a long time been driven by agronomic gains like yield maximization and climate resilience. Nevertheless, the continued low adoption of new varieties and documented gender technology adoption gap has triggered re‐thinking of this strategy, with end‐user acceptability of released varieties a key strategy in breeding objectives.
Just Resilience in Kenya: Frameworks and Perspectives for Equitable Climate Adaptation
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Abstract: The lived realities of many rural communities, and even the urban poor in Kenya, are characterised by poverty, inequality, high dependence on natural resources, rainfed agriculture, and sociocultural norms that influence their action or inaction. Recurrent droughts, floods, and changing rainfall patterns, largely caused by climate change and climate variability, further reinforce these communities' challenges.
Gendered demand for environmental health technologies: Evidence of complementarities from stove auctions in India
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We study if prior exposure to one environmental health technology – improved sanitation – complements or substitutes for additional household investments in another such technology — an electric induction cookstove. We conducted a cookstove demand revealing auction ten years after a random half of our sample had been exposed to an intensive sanitation promotion campaign in rural India.
WinEED is building the capacity of women researchers at EfD Nigeria
EfD’s global network Women in Environmental Economics for Development (WinEED) has sustained its effort to encourage women to take leadership positions in research and development. Women researchers…
Household air pollution exposure and risk of tuberculosis: a case–control study of women in Lilongwe, Malawi
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IntroductionGlobally, 3–4 billion people rely on solid fuels for cooking, and 1 billion use kerosene to light their homes.
Wheeling into school and out of crime: Evidence from linking driving licenses to minimum academic requirements
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“No Pass No Drive” (NPND) laws revoke or deny driver’s licenses to minors who drop out of school, are frequent truants, exhibit behavioral issues, or perform poorly academically. By analyzing Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrest data and leveraging state, time, and cohort variations, the researchers find that NPND laws are linked to a significant reduction in total crime, DUI, and property crimes among males aged 16 to 18, as well as a decline in DUIs among females in the same age group.