Population Health And Nutrition In The Sahel

Author : Allan G. Hill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136882852

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Population, Health and Nutrition in the Sahel by Allan G. Hill Pdf

This collection of studies, first published in 1985, describes some contemporary problems of selected pastoral and agro-pastoral communities of the West African Sahel. Several important features of the Sahel are illustrated: the significance of seasonal factors in causing periodic stress amongst people and animals, the economic uncertainty introduced by interannual climactic variations, as well as the role of traditional systems of social and economic organisation in providing some support during periods of need. The findings presented here are published in co-operation with the Sahel Institute, a regional research organisation set up in the early 1970s with representation from eight Sahelian countries – Cape Verde, Chad, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Upper Volta.

Author : Allan G. Hill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317856948

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Population, Health and Nutrition in the Sahel by Allan G. Hill Pdf

This collection of studies, first published in 1985, describes some contemporary problems of selected pastoral and agro-pastoral communities of the West African Sahel. Several important features of the Sahel are illustrated: the significance of seasonal factors in causing periodic stress amongst people and animals, the economic uncertainty introduced by interannual climactic variations, as well as the role of traditional systems of social and economic organisation in providing some support during periods of need. The findings presented here are published in co-operation with the Sahel Institute, a regional research organisation set up in the early 1970s with representation from eight Sahelian countries - Cape Verde, Chad, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Upper Volta.

Author : Allan G. Hill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317856931

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Population, Health and Nutrition in the Sahel by Allan G. Hill Pdf

This collection of studies, first published in 1985, describes some contemporary problems of selected pastoral and agro-pastoral communities of the West African Sahel. Several important features of the Sahel are illustrated: the significance of seasonal factors in causing periodic stress amongst people and animals, the economic uncertainty introduced by interannual climactic variations, as well as the role of traditional systems of social and economic organisation in providing some support during periods of need. The findings presented here are published in co-operation with the Sahel Institute, a regional research organisation set up in the early 1970s with representation from eight Sahelian countries - Cape Verde, Chad, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Upper Volta.

Author : Henning Steinfeld,Harold A. Mooney,Fritz Schneider,Laurie E. Neville
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781597269261

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Livestock in a Changing Landscape, Volume 1 by Henning Steinfeld,Harold A. Mooney,Fritz Schneider,Laurie E. Neville Pdf

The rapidly changing nature of animal production systems, especially increasing intensification and globalization, is playing out in complex ways around the world. Over the last century, livestock keeping evolved from a means of harnessing marginal resources to produce items for local consumption to a key component of global food chains. Livestock in a Changing Landscape offers a comprehensive examination of these important and far-reaching trends. The books are an outgrowth of a collaborative effort involving international nongovernmental organizations including the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO), the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the Swiss College of Agriculture (SHL), the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), and the Scientific Committee for Problems of the Environment (SCOPE). Volume 1 examines the forces shaping change in livestock production and management; the resulting impacts on landscapes, land use, and social systems; and potential policy and management responses. Volume 2 explores needs and draws experience from region-specific contexts and detailed case studies. The case studies describe how drivers and consequences of change play out in specific geographical areas, and how public and private responses are shaped and implemented. Together, the volumes present new, sustainable approaches to the challenges created by fundamental shifts in livestock management and production, and represent an essential resource for policy makers, industry managers, and academics involved with this issue.

Author : John Caldwell,Allan Hill,Valerie J. Hull
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000929188

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Micro-Approaches to Demographic Research by John Caldwell,Allan Hill,Valerie J. Hull Pdf

Originally published in 1988, this collection of essays was the first attempt by population scientists to incorporate some of the methods and materials of anthropologists into their work. The essays bridge the gap in the conceptualisation and organisation of field research by 2 sets of social scientists – demographers and social anthropologists – who share an interest in the explanation of particular patterns of population composition and change.

Author : R. I. M. Dunbar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995-04-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781349239474

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Human Reproductive Decisions by R. I. M. Dunbar Pdf

Reproductive biologists, evolutionary biologists, demographers and social scientists all have a common interest in the business of human reproduction. Their perspectives, however, are very different and have traditionally prevented them from having much to do with each other. The conference on which this book is based brought together contributors from each of these disciplines in an attempt to explore the common ground that they share and so generate a better understanding of the factors that influence human fertility.

Author : Maya Unnithan-Kumar,Soraya Tremayne
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857451231

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Fatness and the Maternal Body by Maya Unnithan-Kumar,Soraya Tremayne Pdf

Obesity is a rising global health problem. On the one hand a clearly defined medical condition, it is at the same time a corporeal state embedded in the social and cultural perception of fatness, body shape and size. Focusing specifically on the maternal body, contributors to the volume examine how the language and notions of obesity connect with, or stand apart from, wider societal values and moralities to do with the body, fatness, reproduction and what is considered ‘natural’. A focus on fatness in the context of human reproduction and motherhood offers instructive insights into the global circulation and authority of biomedical facts on fatness (as ‘risky’ anti-fit, for example). As with other social and cultural studies critical of health policy discourse, this volume challenges the spontaneous connection being made in scientific and popular understanding between fatness and ill health.

Author : Jean Drèze,Amartya Sen
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198283652

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Hunger and Public Action by Jean Drèze,Amartya Sen Pdf

This book analyses the role of public action in solving the problem of hunger in the modern world and is divided into four parts: Hunger in the modern world, Famines, Undernutrition and deprivation, and Hunger and public action.

Author : Stephan Klasen,Michael Grimm,Isabel Günther
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783728139979

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Economics of Gender Inequality by Stephan Klasen,Michael Grimm,Isabel Günther Pdf

Stephan Klasen is considered one of the most distinguished scholars on gender economics in the 21st century. Over the past 25 years, he has tirelessly worked to understand the complex phenomena of gender inequality: From counting the number of missing women in the world and shedding light on why women go missing, to showing that leaving girls out of school not only deprives them, but also robs society of the opportunity to thrive on the talents of its entire population. From understanding why equal rights and rising incomes everywhere have not resulted in women participating more at work, to measuring gender inequality in its various dimensions. This volume, a collection of some of Stephan Klasens most important writings on the topic of gender inequality, honours his academic life and gives the reader an in-depth insight into both what we know and do not yet know about the economics of gender inequality.

Author : Elliot Fratkin,Eric Abella Roth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780306485954

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As Pastoralists Settle by Elliot Fratkin,Eric Abella Roth Pdf

Throughout the world's arid regions, and particularly in northern and eastern Africa, formerly nomadic pastoralists are undergoing a transition to settled life. This reference shows that although pastoral settlement is often encouraged by international development agencies and national governments, the social, economic and health consequences of sedentism are not inevitably beneficial.

Author : United States. Agency for International Development. Bureau for Technical Assistance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Agricultural assistance, American
ISBN : UIUC:30112018061181

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Catalogue of Research Literature for Development: Food production and nutrition, development and economics, education and human resources, health, selected development areas by United States. Agency for International Development. Bureau for Technical Assistance Pdf

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137066152

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Rural Resources and Local Livelihoods in Africa by NA NA Pdf

Top scholars examine issues which lead readers to better understand environmental change in the African continent and its effects on rural African livelihoods. Each of the studies in this book concerns four main issues: conservation, biodiversity, and environment; land use and livelihoods; environmental change; and policies for conservation and development. The volume looks closely at the details of rural resource use, access and control, the social institutions which shape this, and the effects on African environments. It is not possible to understand livelihoods in Africa - a central issue for all social and economic questions - without grasping the interplay between environmental change and the sustainability of rural livelihoods. The volume is groundbreaking in its detailed examination of this interplay, and its importance in grasping the roots of poverty and potential for its alleviation, and for its unique combination of natural and social science methods.

Author : Heinz-Dietrich Fischer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110862928

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1978–1989 by Heinz-Dietrich Fischer Pdf

No detailed description available for "1978-1989".

Author : Marshall Cavendish
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 1712 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0761475710

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World and Its Peoples by Marshall Cavendish Pdf

An eleven-volume guide to the geography, history, economy, government, culture and daily life of countries of the Middle East, western Asia and northern Africa.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Problems Connected with Refugees and Escapees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Disaster relief
ISBN : UOM:39015078639286

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World Hunger, Health, and Refugee Problems: Human disasters in Cyprus, Bangladesh, Africa by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Problems Connected with Refugees and Escapees Pdf