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View article: Exploring the scalability and sustainability of community-based agroforestry to achieve planetary health benefits in Haiti’s Lower Artibonite Valley
Exploring the scalability and sustainability of community-based agroforestry to achieve planetary health benefits in Haiti’s Lower Artibonite Valley Open
Community-based agroforestry, as a planetary health solution, can rebuild fertile soils, minimize climate risk, diversify farmer incomes, and provide a source of food, raw materials, and other vital ecosystem functions. Utilizing focus gro…
View article: Exploring the scalability and sustainability of community-based agroforestry to achieve planetary health benefits in Haiti’s Lower Artibonite Valley
Exploring the scalability and sustainability of community-based agroforestry to achieve planetary health benefits in Haiti’s Lower Artibonite Valley Open
Community-based agroforestry, as a planetary health solution, can rebuild fertile soils, minimize climate risk, diversify farmer incomes, and provide a source of food, raw materials, and other vital ecosystem functions. Utilizing focus gro…
View article: Food system resilience measurement: principles, framework and caveats
Food system resilience measurement: principles, framework and caveats Open
There is growing recognition that a better understanding of how food systems respond to crises is critical to build and protect the food security of local populations. But rigorous and reliable methods to measure food system resilience are…
View article: Toward Core Indicators for Resilience Analysis: A framework to promote harmonized metrics and empirical coherence
Toward Core Indicators for Resilience Analysis: A framework to promote harmonized metrics and empirical coherence Open
As applications of resilience have increased the associated measurement options have grown. An unintended consequence of such growth is that the proliferation of resilience measurement approaches hinders efforts to generate evidence that i…
View article: 2021 Annual Trends and Outlook Report Building Resilient African Food Systems After COVID-19: Synopsys
2021 Annual Trends and Outlook Report Building Resilient African Food Systems After COVID-19: Synopsys Open
et Éliane Ubalijoro L 'Afrique est confrontée à de gigantesques défis dans sa lutte contre les impacts négatifs de la pandémie de COVID-19.La crise a profondément affecté la santé, les moyens de subsistance et la sécurité alimentaire sur l…
View article: Maternal caregiving capabilities are associated with child linear growth in rural Zimbabwe
Maternal caregiving capabilities are associated with child linear growth in rural Zimbabwe Open
Between birth and 2 years, children's well‐being depends on the quality of care they receive from caregivers, primarily their mothers. We developed a quantitative survey instrument to assess seven psychosocial characteristics of women that…
View article: What does resilience imply for development practice? Tools for more coherent programming and evaluation of resilience
What does resilience imply for development practice? Tools for more coherent programming and evaluation of resilience Open
Motivation The concept of resilience is widely embraced by practitioners and analysts concerned with development and humanitarian aid. It is less clear how to apply the concept in practice. Purpose Two questions are addressed: What makes r…
View article: A Framework for Articulating and Measuring Individual Learning Outcomes from Participation in Citizen Science
A Framework for Articulating and Measuring Individual Learning Outcomes from Participation in Citizen Science Open
Since first being introduced in the mid 1990s, the term “citizen science”—the intentional engagement of the public in scientific research—has seen phenomenal growth as measured by the number of projects developed, people involved, and arti…
View article: The relationship between community nutritionists’ use of policy, systems and environmental strategies to prevent obesity and its determinants depends on networking
The relationship between community nutritionists’ use of policy, systems and environmental strategies to prevent obesity and its determinants depends on networking Open
Objective To apply the Theory of Planned Behaviour to examine the relationship between the constructs of background factors and beliefs towards using policy, systems and environmental (PSE) strategies and reported use of PSE strategies to …