Serge M. Garcia, Jeppe Kolding, J. Rice, M.-J. Rochet et al.
Balanced fishing across a range of species, stocks, and sizes could mitigate adverse effects and address food security better than increased selectivity.
Lisa C. Smith, Timothy R. Frankenberger
Carlo del Ninno, Paul A. Dorosh, Lisa C. Smith
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In 1998,the flood of the century covered more than two-thirds of Bangladesh, causing crop losses of 2.04 million tons of rice, an amount equal to 10.45 percent of target production in 1998/99. This flood threatened the health and lives of millions through food shortages caused by crop failure, los...
Fred Krüger, Greg Bankoff, Terry Cannon, Benedikt M. Orlowski et al.
Introduction The Editors 1 The Culture of (De-)Constructing Disasters. 1.1 Framing Disasters in the 'Global Village': Cultures of Rationality in Risk, Security, and News Kenneth Hewitt 1.2 Conversations in Catastrophe: Neoliberalism and the cultural construction of disaster risk Anthony Oliver-Smith...
Daniel C. Dunn, Cindy Lee Van Dover, Ron J. Etter, Craig R. Smith et al.
Mineral exploitation has spread from land to shallow coastal waters and is now planned for the offshore, deep seabed. Large seafloor areas are being approved for exploration for seafloor mineral deposits, creating an urgent need for regional environmental management plans. Networks of areas where mi...
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Abstract Acknowledgement I would like to thank my colleagues and friends Praveena Gullapalli and Benjamin Porter for the comments and insights that have helped shaped this piece in its initial stages. Additionally, this work has benefited from my conversations with Sandra Scham. I would also like to...
Karthik Shanmuganatham, Mohammed M. Feeroz, Lisa Jones‐Engel, Gavin J. D. Smith et al.
Human infection with avian influenza A(H9N2) virus was identified in Bangladesh in 2011. Surveillance for influenza viruses in apparently healthy poultry in live-bird markets in Bangladesh during 2008-2011 showed that subtype H9N2 viruses are isolated year-round, whereas highly pathogenic subtype H5...
Dewan Arif Rashid, Lisa C. Smith, Tauhidur Rahman
Whereas a large number of studies have been devoted to analyzing consumer demand for dietary quantity, much less attention has been paid to the demand for dietary quality. To address this gap in the literature, this paper explores the determinants of dietary quality in Bangladesh using data from a n...
Carlo del Ninno, Paul A. Dorosh, Lisa C. Smith, Dilip Kumar Roy
This report combines a careful analysis of government policy and private foodgrain markets with a detailed survey of 757 households in rural Bangladesh in November and December 1998, about two months after the floodwaters receded. The report describes short- and medium-term government policy measure...
Lisa C. Smith, Faheem A. Khan, Timothy R. Frankenberger, A.K.M. Abdul Wadud
Experimental impact evaluation methods have recently emerged as a dominant force within the development effectiveness movement. Although these methods have improved understanding of what works, their “gold standard” status threatens to exclude a large body of alternative evidence. This paper evaluat...
Binod Bindu Sharma, Lisa Jones, Deborah Loxton, Debbie Booth et al.
BACKGROUND: This is a systematic review on the effectiveness of community interventions in improving maternal health care outcomes in South Asia. METHODS: We searched electronic databases to June 2017. Randomised or cluster randomised studies in communities within rural/remote areas of Nepal, Bangla...
Kenneth S. Gunasekera, Olivier Marcy, Johanna Muñoz, Elisa López‐Varela et al.
BACKGROUND: Many children with pulmonary tuberculosis remain undiagnosed and untreated with related high morbidity and mortality. Recent advances in childhood tuberculosis algorithm development have incorporated prediction modelling, but studies so far have been small and localised, with limited gen...
Jeff Ardron, Sophie Arnaud‐Haond, Yannick Beaudoin, Juan Bezaury et al.
Technical Report of the International Seabed Authority.
Louise Waite, Gary Craig, Hannah Lewis, Klára Skrivánková
Editorial Introduction. Vulnerability, exploitation and migrants: Insecure work in a globalised economy Louise Waite Gary Craig Hannah Lewis Klara Skrivankova I. THE GLOBALISATION OF VULNERABILITY 1. Private governance and the problem of trafficking and slavery in global supply chains Nicola Phillip...