Assessment of the impact of a climate adaptation project (TWENDE) on resilience, incomes and livestock units of pastoral communities used quasi-experimental methods. Specifically, the study employed propensity score matching (PSM) and difference-in-differences (DiD) analyses in Stata 17...

Bihar state spread over 9.36 million hectares land. It covers 2.8 percent landmass, supports about 8 percent of human population and 5.4 percent of livestock of India. The importance of livestock sector in state’s economy can be understood by the fact that it contributed more than 45 percent...

Temporal climate risk weighs heavily on many of the world’s poor. Model-based climate forecasts could benefit such populations, provided recipients use forecast information to update climate expectations. We test whether pastoralists in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya update their...

For 250 years French, Italian, and Swiss ecclesiastic courts tried insects and rodents for property crimes as legal persons under the same laws and according to the same procedures they used to try actual persons. I argue that the Catholic Church used animal trials to increase tithe revenues...

Agriculture is the most important aspect of human life whose importance cannot be ignored at any stage, many advancementsare made in the field of agriculture in the past five decades according to need around the globe, Agriculture is not a single chapter program there are various steps present...

The Republic of Tajikistan is a land locked country, where most of the territory (93%) is occupied by mountains. Poverty is quite widespread with about half of the country’s population living below the poverty line. The poorest people in the country reside in the Khatlon region, where 78 per...

Recent research on the intertemporal dynamics of poverty using microeconomic data often hints at the existence of poverty traps, where some find themselves trapped at a low-level stable equilibrium while others enjoy a higher stable equilibrium. Without a sizable positive shock to well-being,...

Food security status is determined by the combination of aggregate food availability, household food access and utilization. In Sudan, given climate extremes and insecurity, food availability is a crucial component of household food security status. Communities that rely on raising livestock are...

Livestock markets have a very important effect on pastoralists' welfare. We analyzed thousands of livestock transactions in three sites in Kenya to examine market performance. Key findings include: (1) markets can exacerbate climate risks for pastoralists because livestock prices often decline...