Smallholder farmers in lower-income countries often lack access to agricultural inputs, services, and markets. This holds especially for female farmers, with important negative implications productivity, child welfare, rural development. Contract farming is promoted as a means improving farmers’ markets – thereby household income welfare. Could contract also reduce prevalent gender disparities?...

BACKGROUND Despite the encroaching of endemic malaria to highland-fringe areas above 2000 meters above sea level in Ethiopia, there is limited information on ownership and use of mosquito nets for malaria prevention. Thus, this study was designed to assess long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLIN) possession and use for malaria prevention in highland-fringe of south-central Ethiopia. METHODS A mu...

In the HIV and AIDS sphere, children remain on the margins with respect to advocacy, prevention, treatment and care. Moreover, concern is generally limited to specific categories of children, most especially children living with HIV, orphaned children and child-headed households. Excluded from view are the very large numbers of children affected by generalized HIV/AIDS epidemics, now in advance...

Climate change impact and risks on agricultural livelihood affect women men disproportionately often to the disadvantage of girls. Consequently, this study assessed gender perspectives vulnerability climate farming households at Ikpayongo community in Gwer local government area, Benue State, Nigeria using descriptive approach. The identified a total 120 male-headed female-headed across four nei...

  Background: Women-headed households are more exposed to social damages than other women. Such condition remarkably influences the women’s health-related life quality. The present study is aimed to investigate the effect of an educational intervention in quality of life of women-headed households under protection of Tehran Welfare Organization, in 2015.   Methods: In th...

Although the policy in Rwanda aims at ensuring quality healthcare, a portion of Rwandan population still does not have access to it due lack health insurance. This study investigates impact insurance on healthcare utilization all 30 administrative districts Rwanda, using secondary data from 5th Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey (EICV 5) with total 14,580 households. A logistic regre...

Objective To assess the prevalence of food insecurity and independent association between depression among youth living in two urban settings South Africa. Methods Baseline cross-sectional survey data was analysed from a prospective cohort study conducted 2014 2016 (aged 16–24 years) Soweto Durban. Interviewer-administered questionnaires collecting socio-demographic, sexual reproductive health ...

Using data from the National Survey of America‘s Families (NSAF), this research investigates the relationships between a highly defined set of family structures and a broad set of child outcomes at a particular point in time in a child‘s life. A detailed classification of family structures is constructed that clarifies key differences among various types of diverse families, and facilitates equ...

There are many child-headed families and adolescent carers as a result of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Southern Africa [1]. The lack of earnings in such families exacerbates household poverty with predictable impact on the health and well-being of the remaining household members. There are opportunities for these multiply deprived households to apply to the South African state for maintenance grant...