Move Towards Zero Hunger

Behera, Basanta Kumara; Rout, Pramod Kumar; Behera, Shyambhavee

doi:10.1007/978-981-32-9800-2_1

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“…Two-thirds of humanity live under conditions where the net freshwater withdrawal is more than twice the natural water availability for at least 1 month per year, and half a billion people suffer from this water stress throughout the entire year (1,2). While currently there is enough fresh water on earth to support consumption, it is not available in a way where supply meets demand (3)(4)(5). Growing global challenges, such as climate change, human population growth, and their combination, pose additional detrimental threats to global water resources (6).…”

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Exploiting radiative cooling for uninterrupted 24-hour water harvesting from the atmosphere

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Atmospheric water vapor is ubiquitous and represents a promising alternative to address global clean water scarcity. Sustainably harvesting this resource requires energy neutrality, continuous production, and facility of use. However, fully passive and uninterrupted 24-hour atmospheric water harvesting remains a challenge. Here, we demonstrate a rationally designed system that synergistically combines radiative shielding and cooling—dissipating the latent heat of condensation radiatively to outer space—with a fully passive superhydrophobic condensate harvester, working with a coalescence-induced water removal mechanism. A rationally designed shield, accounting for the atmospheric radiative heat, facilitates daytime atmospheric water harvesting under solar irradiation at realistic levels of relative humidity. The remarkable cooling power enhancement enables dew mass fluxes up to 50 g m−2 hour−1, close to the ultimate capabilities of such systems. Our results demonstrate that the yield of related technologies can be at least doubled, while cooling and collection remain passive, thereby substantially advancing the state of the art.

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“…These include high level of poverty, severe preand post-harvest losses due to ravaging pests and diseases, unemployment, social exclusion, corruption, banditry, kidnapping, conflicts, and terrorism. 2, [10][11]14 Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic was added to this list. Many African countries experienced spike in COVID-19 cases (especially during the second wave) with grave implications for food production and supply.…”

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Review on Farmers’ Microfinance Services Participation and Its Impact on Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia

Mulatu¹

2021

Curr Agri Res Jour

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The financial sector has enabling role for agriculture as credit is used for investments and savings ensure a safe storage of money. In Ethiopia, regarding microfinance service provision, consecutive reforms were made to sustain the service. However, utilization of the service among the community is at low-level and affected by a different factors. This review was crucial to review different research works on how farmers participate in the microfinance services and it is necessary to assess the determinants of farmers’ participation in microfinance services and evaluate its impact on clients poverty reduction. Despite the increased outreach and expanded service provision of microfinance in Ethiopia, the agricultural sector has low financial service provided due to clients and the institution related characteristics.The major objective of this review was to review farmers’ Microfinance services participation and its impact on poverty reduction in Ethiopia. Significant variation across different microfinance impact studies on methodological, analytical, conceptual and outcome variable selection has been happened. These conditions resulted in limited evidence about real impact of microfinance service due to scope, reliability, quality and ability to generalize the findings. Therefore, this review findings argue for further investment in impact assessment through broadening the criteria on which the impact is assessed and generalization is made for further policy directions.

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Why the Sustainable Development Goals Matter in Africa?

Bolaji¹,

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2022

African Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development

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The singular purpose of this study is directed at answering a fundamental question and its immediate focus would be on Africa. The question is premised on why the Sustainable Development Goals matter as well as revealing its importance to the continent of Africa and Africans. A qualitative research method was adopted during the study. The findings revealed that sustainable development matters, and serve as a necessity in closing certain gaps of the human living index in Africa. Many Africans especially in the rural environment are not aware of the sustainable development goals. Thus, Africa needs more education, information, workshops and seminars to enlighten the people on the importance of the SDGs. This study also showed that the participants interviewed do not know how to drive and achieve the SDGs in the urban area. Finally, unanimously, the respondents agree that poverty, food insecurity, gender and infrastructure development are the major challenges facing the continent. Thus, the Sustainable Development Goals become a matter of necessity for Africans, therefore it matters. The limitation of this study is that it was carried out in just three countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Therefore, the generalized study results about Africa are only limited to a few African nations. It was challenging gathering data as most participants were reluctant about providing information based on trust deficit prevalent in the continent. Some participants altogether felt uncomfortable participating in the research.

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Move Towards Zero Hunger

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Exploiting radiative cooling for uninterrupted 24-hour water harvesting from the atmosphere

Exploiting radiative cooling for uninterrupted 24-hour water harvesting from the atmosphere

Review on Farmers’ Microfinance Services Participation and Its Impact on Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia

Why the Sustainable Development Goals Matter in Africa?

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