Can climate information salvage livelihoods in arid and semiarid lands? An evaluation of access, use and impact in Namibia

Effect of nutrition awareness on utilization of Orange Fleshed Sweetpotato among vulnerable populations in Kenya

“…The key challenge is the identification of a true counterfactual, in the presence of non-randomness, for consistent intervention impact estimation. Several approaches abound in the empirical literature for the estimation of treatment impacts in the presence of non-randomness in the treatment (Asfaw et al, 2018 ; Gitonga et al, 2020 ; Kassie et al, 2015 ; Mulwa & Visser, 2020 ; Terza et al, 2008 ). The endogenous switching regression (ESR) method has been extensively used in studies such as ours to correct for not only observable confounders but also hidden bias (Asfaw et al, 2012 ; Khonje et al, 2015 ).…”

“…Several matching algorithms are used in the PSM literature including nearest neighbor matching (NNM) and kernel based matching (KBM) (Gitonga et al, 2020 ; Khonje et al, 2015 ). While these algorithms attempt to match the treated and non-treated units by the observable characteristics (x), the two groups may exhibit different distributions over these characteristics given the systematic differences due to the identified biases, leading to shrinking of the sample as control units that are not closely matched to treatment units are discarded during the analysis.…”

“…Secondly, diffusion of nutrition awareness across population of interest may differ systematically given factors like individual attitudes towards risk, self-interest and health consciousness, as well as other binding constraints like education levels, social capital, and proximity to change agents, etc. This gives rise to a self-selection problem in analyzing treatment effects in studies using observational data (Gitonga et al, 2020;Mulwa et al, 2021).…”

The problem of ensuring food security of the Russian Federation and sustainable development of the economy in the context of energy indicators and rates of human food consumption

“…-due to the fact that based on the studies of domestic and foreign authors [2,5], in Russia, in contrast to the African and Asian regions, the problem of hunger and malnutrition is not so acute, it is necessary to consider the list of national interests of the FS sphere characteristic of Russia, which reflect the measures to eliminate the identified main problems of ensuring the food security of the population (providing the population with constant access to rational, high-calorie food and pragmatic use, protection of the land resource as the main source of food production).…”

A Dataset of Lost Opportunities. The Case of 63 Developed and Emerging Countries Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic

“…The issues of economic development after the COVID-19 crisis with particular attention to sustainability are discussed in Perry [6], Le et al [7], Asiedu et al [8], Gitonga et al [9], Hellewell et al [10], Anderson et al [11], Mandel and Veetil [12], Ivanov [13], Inoue and Todo [14], Shan et al [15], Yekefallah et al [16],…”