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Irresponsible investment: AGRICA's broken development model in Tanzania
The Oakland Institute, 2015Kilombero Plantations Ltd (KPL) is a 5,818 hectare (ha) rice plantation located in the heart of the fertile Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. In addition to developing a large-scale rice farm, KPL works with local smallholder farmers through an outgrower model based on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) technologies.DocumentGenerosity and sharing among villagers: Do women give more?
Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2015This paper explores generosity among anonymous villagers and sharing within families using a dictator game field experiment that was carried out in rural villages in Ethiopia. We find that generosity among anonymous villagers is very low compared with the findings in the dictator game literature.DocumentReforming employment protection in Egypt: an evaluation based on transition models with measurement errors
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015Do reforms introducing more flexibility in developing countries’ labour markets reduce unemployment? This paper proposes to evaluate the new Egyptian labour market law, which was introduced in 2003, aiming to enhance the flexibility of the hiring and the firing processes.DocumentCan a nuclear deal help Iran’s young labor force?
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2015Iran is poised to reap a vast “demographic dividend” if the appropriate national and international policies are adopted, including a nuclear deal with the P5+1 (five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany).Document‘Clean India!’ Miles to go before we sweep?
Institute of South Asian Studies, 2015India’s urban population increases at about 2.5 per cent a year and will be close to 500 million by the next census in 2021. Urban sewage systems have to deal with nearly twice as much human waste as a generation ago. Sewers and water management have not kept pace.DocumentRural sanitation transformation in Himachal Pradesh
CLTS Foundation, 2014The world remains off track to meet the sanitation MDG target. The key culprit for this is India. Against the global open defecation rate of 15%, in India over 50% of its 1.2 billion population continue to defecate in the open everyday. However, even in this dismal scenario, there are beacons of hope.OrganisationCLTS Foundation
CLTS Foundation strives to create a world free from open defecation through collective behaviour change by empowered local communities - an approach known as Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS).DocumentPromising pathways. Innovations and best practices in CLTS at scale in Madagascar. Towards an open defecation free country
CLTS Foundation, 2014This book from the CLTS Foundation - with a foreword by Kamal Kar - describes their research into the process and practices of Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) as implemented by the Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) programme in Madagascar.DocumentThe well-being of elderly survivors after natural disasters: measuring the impact of the Great East Japan earthquake
Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, 2015The Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011 had a devastating impact on the northeastern part of Japan.DocumentFactors affecting attitudes of local people toward the red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea) in Kondoa District, Tanzania
Academic Journals, 2014Interactions between humans and red-billed Queleas (Quelea quelea) in Kondoa District, central Tanzania, have shaped the attitudes of the local inhabitants toward these birds. These birds are considered as serious pest because they consume small grain cereal crops. The red-billed Queleas are caught and consumed as food by local communities.Pages