Exploring links between socio-ecological systems and psychological distress: a case study in rural Uganda by Thomas Pienkowski, Aidan Keane, Eugene Kinyanda, Birthe Loa Knizek, Caroline Asiimwe, Geoffrey Muhanguzi, E.J. Milner-Gulland

“…However, forest resources represented important safety nets for those facing poverty and food insecurity. Commercial agricultural expansion also emerged as a salient theme in the lives of residents, reportedly exacerbating poverty and food insecurity amongst poorer households but contributing incomes to wealthier ones. …”
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The association of travel distance and other patient characteristics with breast cancer stage at diagnosis and treatment completion at a rural Rwandan cancer facility by Kayleigh Bhangdia, Abirami Natarajan, Niclas Rudolfson, Stéphane Verguet, Marcia C. Castro, Jean-Marie Vianney Dusengimana, Cyprien Shyirambere, Lauren E. Schleimer, Lawrence N. Shulman, Aline Umwizerwa, Catherine Kigonya, John Butonzi, Emily MacDuffie, Temidayo Fadelu, Daniel S. O’Neil, Cam Nguyen, Tharcisse Mpunga, Nancy L. Keating, Lydia E. Pace

“…Patients from sectors with > 50% poverty had 2.33 times higher odds of late-stage diagnoses (95% CI:1.07–5.26) relative to those with poverty < 30%. …”
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Determinants of Pro-Poor Growth and Its Impacts on Income Share: Evidence from Ethiopian Time Series Data by Gemechu Bekana Fufa

“…The growing research interest in the pro-poorness of growth is the main issue today. Reducing economic poverty and inequality through pro-poor growth is the aim of policies in many countries. …”
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Risques climatiques et sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle au Niger : cartographie des impacts et des besoins de résilience by Bouda Maja Chardi Moussa, Torou bio Mohamadou, Oumarou diadie Halima, Balla Abdourahamane

“…The analysis shows that drought constitutes the main risk which affects agro-silvopastoral production through reductions in food production, the number of animals and their productivity, agricultural income, the disappearance of certain valuable tree species with the consequence of food insecurity and even food and nutrition crises and entrenched poverty. The factors that explain the vulnerability of rural households to food crises are land degradation and insufficiency, poverty, dysfunction of mechanisms and devices for crisis prevention and management and especially the rainfed and rudimentary nature of agro-pastoral activities. …”
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Nigeria: Hungry Nation in a Land of Plenty by Philip Fwaldin Kasuwa

“…Many factors are responsible including poverty, political instability, economic disparities, climate change, and conflicts. …”
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Relocation and process of territorialisation in the Rural Sustainable City Nuevo Juan del Grijalva by Martha Liliana Arévalo-Peña

“…They also highlight the absence of monitoring of public policies that are executed and the null participation of the population in them, a situation that perpetuates poverty instead of eradicating it.…”
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Analysis of Livelihood of Rural Irrigated Crop Farmers in Kano State, Nigeria by Ahmadu Tafida, Amurtiya Michael, Markson Nandagoyang

“…In the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics and the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measurement were used. The study revealed that irrigated crop farming in the area is male-dominated (78.1%), and the practitioners were mostly small-scale farmers (average farm size of 1.8 ha). …”
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Hortas urbanas – História, Classificação, Benefícios e Perspectivas. by Marc François Richter, Luiza Vigne Bennedetti, Bruna Raquel Rodrigues Teixeira, Maico Ismael Klein, Angélica Gomes Florczak dos Santos

“…In recent decades, Brazil has promoted policies at federal, state and municipal level with the aim of supporting community garden projects in order to play a role in reducing poverty and ensuring food security.…”
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Social assistance and non-agriculture employment in rural China: evidence from the Rural Minimum Living Security (Rural Dibao) by Dian Chen, Xiangming Fang

“…Abstract The Rural Minimum Living Security (Rural Dibao) is a crucial social assistance program designed to alleviate poverty in rural China. While non-agriculture employment plays a significant role in boosting farmers’ income and reducing long-term poverty, little is known about the impact of Rural Dibao on non-agriculture employment. …”
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A Proposed Model for Social Impact Sukuk by Abdessamad Raghibi, Lahsen Oubdi

“… Despite the fact that humanity has totally embraced the 21st century with its technological and innovation outcomes, poverty and social disparity still haunt most of the world’s leaders. …”
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Spiritualiteit in het Lucasevangelie: verscheidenheid en gemeenschap by H. Welzen

“…For these intended readers the themes of poverty and wealth were of great importance. Poverty and wealth relate in the first instance to economic positions. …”
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Assessing the Effect of Health Insurance to Social Development of People in Rukomo-Nyagatare District-Rwanda. by Mutesi, Grace

“…The findings are consistent with the impact of health insurance on poverty reduction and school dropping out whereby insured households were prevented from falling into poverty and dropping their children out of school following episodes of illness. …”
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Impact of Comprehensive Health Insurance affiliation on mortality in children under one year: an analysis of the Demographic and Health Survey 2010–2022 in Peru by Marcos Espinola-Sánchez, Marcos Espinola-Sánchez, Andres Campaña-Acuña, Diego Urrunaga-Pastor, Diego Urrunaga-Pastor, Jorge L. Maguiña, Manuel Jumpa, Oscar Ugarte-Ubillus

“…The ATET analysis as an exogenous treatment of CHI showed a significant reduction in infant mortality in the overall population of children by 12.6% (95% CI: 12.1 to 13.1%), in the poverty subgroup by 15.6% (95% CI: 14.9 to 16.3%), and in the non-poverty subgroup by 6% (95% CI: 5.5 to 6.4%). …”
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Demographic trends and population health: tackling inequality in a world of eight billion people by Thoai D Ngo

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TAXATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA by Adebowale Ogunsola

“…Results also revealed that the influence of CITX on poverty index is negligible, while VATX and EDTX have negative and positive insignificant influence on poverty index respectively. …”
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PREVALENCE AND CONSEQUENCES OF KIDNAPPING IN SOUTHERN TARABA STATE, NIGERIA by YIKWABS PETER YIKWAB, WAJIM JOHN, ALEGBEJO NOAH KOLAWOLE, AROKOYO JACOB

“…It results to waste of human and material resources, increased social disharmony and fear, decline of agricultural trading and commercial activities -which has consequences on youth employment, poverty eradication and food security. The study suggests increased security surveillance, community policing, increased youth employment and poverty eradication as a panacea. …”
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Markets of agro-industrial complex products in conditions of geoeconomic fragmentation of the international trade by E. N. Smirnov, E. A. Karelina, M. G. Pletnev

“…For decades, international trade has contributed to the reduction of global poverty and the income gap between countries, and the development of intercountry exchange of agricultural products has largely ensured the solution of problems of poverty and food security. …”
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China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Meeting Security Challenges in Balochistan Through Trade and Development by Hashmat Ullah Khan, Shan Yu

“…The article substantiates that CPEC has prospects to cool down the Baloch uprising, bring peace, prosperity, and stability, solve the economic crises, decrease poverty and improve the country's living conditions and region.…”
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Reorienting Ecological Paradigm for Harmonization of Humans and Nature: A Christian Perspective by Johanna Silvana Talupun, Eklepinus Jefry Sopacuaperu

“…Thus, ethical poverty forms paradigm disorientation, dysfunction of action and disintegration of relations. …”
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