Abstract Environmental degradation is a major public policy challenge, with the Global South being particularly vulnerable to its effects. In developing countries, women and girls often bear a greater…

Abstract The underrepresentation of women in Nigeria’s formal small and medium food enterprise (SMEs) sector, despite their vital role in subsistence farming and household food production, presents a…

Abstract We investigate how a group of women smallholder farmers built a food system alongside the industrial and the corporate-state-led global agri-food system. The paper shows how the adoption of…

Recent research, focused mostly on the United States and Western Europe, shows that marginalized communities often face greater environmental degradation. However, the ethnoracial categories used in…

Key Messages It is painted that product innovation has a positive effect on energy efficiency Energy efficiency in the case studies has a positive effect on TFP, capital productivity, and labour…

ABSTRACT Background Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) is a harmful practice recognized as a gross violation of human rights and violence against women. Nigeria has been identified to share an…

Abstract Recent proliferation of gold cyanidation activities in Siaya County, Kenya, has sparked concerns over its environmental and health impacts, exacerbated by the proximity of the gold leaching…

Abstract Climate policies such as carbon taxes for emissions reduction could be detrimental to social welfare in developing countries. High energy prices could induce substitution towards traditional…

This paper is written from the EfD discussion papers DP 24-02 and DP 22-09, which are among the required deliverables of the research project MS-890 funded by Environment for Development (EfD) at the...

Every year, 245 million women are victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). Climate change is hypothesized to exacerbate this figure through its disruptive impact on household livelihoods, among…