BACKGROUND As China re-establishes its health insurance system through various cooperative schemes, little is known about schoolchildren's health insurance. This paper reports findings from a study that examined schoolchildren's insurance coverage, disparities between farmer and non-farmer households, and effects of low-premium cooperative schemes on healthcare access and utilization. It also d...

Nowadays, extensive livestock farming faces substantial threats in the Mediterranean region, provoking a setback dynamic sector. In 2016, Fire Flocks (FF) project was conceived and implemented as regional strategy to revert this situation revalue sector Catalonia, NE of Iberian Peninsula. FF promotes forest management through farming, more specifically silvopastoralism, reduce vegetation load w...

BACKGROUND Although termites are considered as agricultural pests, they play an important role in maintaining the ecosystem. Therefore, it matters to investigate the farmers' perception of the impacts of the termites on the agriculture and their indigenous utilization. METHODS A semi-structured questionnaire was used to interview 94 farmers through 10 villages of Atacora department, in the no...

the farmers of the future (fof) initiative implemented a programme of integrating natural resources management in the basic education curriculum. the purpose of the study was to document activities and determine the effects of fof programme on primary school learners’ perceptions towards natural resources management by comparing learners involved in the fof programme and those not involved. fur...