This paper presents an evaluation of the long-term impact of microfinance programmes on Acehnese children during the post-tsunami recovery. The study, conducted from June to August 2010, examined the impact of microfinance programming six years after the tsunami. The sample consisted of 185 microfinance participants, with a comparison group of 192 individuals who did not participate in microfin...

The most important public health priority in agricultural policy-making is currently food safety, despite the relatively higher importance of food security, nutrition, and other agricultural-related health issues in terms of global burden of disease. There is limited experience worldwide of using health impact assessment (HIA) during the development of agriculture and food policies, which perha...

extended abstract: introduction creative city is a place with a strong flourish of arts and culture, creativity and innovation with four scenarios of creative human capital, quality of life, innovation and investment in social in order to use of sustainable development indicators. the aim of this study is an analysis of the relationship between sustainable development indicators and criteria of...

Since the 2008 food price crisis, food and nutrition security are back on the global development agenda, with particular emphasis on agricultural pathways toward improved nutrition. Parallel efforts are being promoted to improve the data and metrics for monitoring progress toward positive nutritional outcomes, especially for women and children. Despite the increased investment in tracking nutri...

Quad-pol measurements at L-band acquired during the AGRISAR’06 campaign have been used in order to compute time series of entropy, alpha angle and anisotropy from an agricultural area with a simultaneous dedicated ground-data acquisition. The study has been focused on winter wheat, maize and rape crops, and the biophysical parameters considered were crop coverage, BBCH phase, Leaf Area Index (L...

1 Business Economics, Wageningen University, the Netherlands ({irina.bezlepkina,sander.jansen,rob.knapen}@wur.nl) 2 Lunds University Centre for Sustainability Science, Sweden ([email protected]) 3 Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Lugano, Switzerland ({ioannis,hongtao}@idsia.ch 4 AntOptima, Lugano, Switzerland ([email protected]) 5 INRA UMR INPL(ENSA...

background: in this regard, in iran a plan was developed and accordingly 52 indicators to measure equity inhealth were developed and announced by the ministry of health in collaboration with other sectors.this study aims to obtain a deeper understanding of the development of health equity indicators andidentify their implementation challenges and proposed solutions from the perspective of polic...

The most important public health priority in agricultural policy-making is currently food safety, despite the relatively higher importance of food security, nutrition, and other agricultural-related health issues in terms of global burden of disease. There is limited experience worldwide of using health impact assessment (HIA) during the development of agriculture and food policies, which perha...