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Climate Resilience Through Dual-Purpose Crops for Small-Scale Dairy Farming in Benin
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022-10)In response to livestock feed constraints, farmers are increasingly exploring new options to improve the productivity and efficiency of their crop-livestock enterprises (Snapp et al, 2018). One such option is dual-purpose ... -
Climate change impact on Meteorological hazards in the Volta River Basin, West Africa
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022-10)Climate change has increasingly become a serious threat to meteorological hazards such as drought and flood. The slightest changes in temperature and rainfall patterns could have asignificant implication on economic ... -
Climate Variability, Temporal Migration and Welfare Among Agricultural Households in Tanzania
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022-10)Climate change risks poses threat to productivity and human welfare especially those living in climatic prone areas and those whose livelihood depends on agriculture activities. More than 80 percent of rural households ... -
Anthropogenic Land Use Change and Adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022-10)Agricultural production and productivity (crop and livestock) is increasing in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) at the cost high carbon footprint. Emissions of greenhouse gases is mainly from land use changes, food and feed ... -
Understanding Gender Differences on the Choices of a Portfolio of Climate-smart Agricultural Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022-10)Managing climatic risks and ensuring gender equality are critical to achieving sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In this regard, the uptake of a portfolio of farm level Climate-smart Agriculture (CSA) ... -
The Transition to Renewable Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022-10)While sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is not responsible for climate degradation, it suffers its adverse natural and socioeconomic effects. • Nonetheless, sub-Saharan Africa has a role to play in reducing greenhouse gas ... -
Climate Change and Economic Development in Africa
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022-10)Gender equality and female empowerment (SDG 5) and embarking on actions to tackle climate change (SDG 13) are amongst the sustainable development goals established by the United Nations. South Africa has been experiencing ... -
The Necessity to Account for Air Quality in Climate Change Strategies in Africa
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022-09)The process of economic development and urbanization is Sub-Saharan Africa is accompanied with worsening air quality in urban cities. Most of the time (90%) during a typical year, concentration of particle matters ... -
Do Smallholder Farmers in Heterogeneous Settings in Malawi Use Commercial Input Purchasing to Adapt to Recurrent Weather Shocks?
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022-10)Agriculture in Malawi is mainly rain-fed, making it highly sensitive to climate risk, particularly weather shocks. Historical climate trends in the country show high climate variability, and extreme climate events such ... -
Sustainable Scaling of Climate Smart Agricultural Technologies and Practices in Africa: The Case of Kenya, Nigeria and Malawi
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022-09)Climate change (CC) is among the major challenges globally affecting all areas of life. It has destabilized agricultural production with negative production trends projected to increase in regions with limited capacity ... -
Extreme Climate Events and Conflicts in the G5 Sahel Countries
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022)Climate change affects population and economic activities dynamic and thereby puts additional pressure on scarce resources. These dynamics have the potential to trigger conflicts or exacerbate the existing ones. According ... -
Climate-Smart Agriculture, Welfare, and Income Risk Management in Ethiopia
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022)Despite significant gains in poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa, rural poverty remains a concern in the region (Barrett et al., 2017; Hansen et al., 2019; Clay and Zimmerer, 2020). The agriculture sector in the ... -
Impact of Climate Change on Food Prices in Eastern and Southern Africa
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022-10)Climate change manifested in global greenhouse emissions, extreme weather patterns, and rising temperatures continues to be a global concern. Developing countries are most vulnerable to climate change, frequently ... -
Drought Impacts on Crops Sector and Adaptation Options in Burkina Faso : A Gender Focused Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022-10)Burkina Faso has experienced recurrent droughts since the 1970s. Between 1969 and 2020, drought affected more than 15 million people in Burkina Faso. In 2011, for example, the drought resulted in the loss of half a ... -
Gender Perspective in Building Resilience Through Financial Inclusion
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022)The effects of climate shocks on welfare and households’ coping mechanisms has been extensively addressed in the literature. However, there is a dearth of evidence on how climate shocks impacts on fragile societies ... -
Financial Inclusion for Sustainable Innovation and Performance of Enterprises in Sierra Leone
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022)According to the World Bank’s Global Findex data1 , only 20 percent, 25 percent, and 15 percent of Sierra Leone’s total population aged above 15 years, male population and female population own a bank account in 2017, ... -
Targeted Household Credit Reduces School Dropout for Girls in Fragile States
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022)Up to 263 million children and youths are out of school. Despite the implementation of universal primary education policies that have seen net attendance reach 87% in 2019, and school completion of four out of five ... -
Boosting Agricultural Productivity in Mali Through Financial Inclusion and Gender Equality
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022)Mali is a prominent fragile and post-conflict country (FPCC) in SSA. Since independence in 1960, the country has experienced four armed rebellions, accounting for a total of 20 years. Agriculture is the mainstay of the ... -
Gender and Household Welfare Through Financial Inclusion in Liberia
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022)Financial inclusion (FI) is critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly no poverty, gender equality, and reduced inequalities (GSMA, 2021). However, there is limited evidence of its ... -
Improved Welfare for Women and Youths in Gambia Through Access to Finance
(2022)Access to finance, and more broadly financial inclusion, is one of the key challenges faced by households in the Gambia, in the face of an underdeveloped financial sector. Financial services in the Gambia are both formal ...
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