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Sustainable agricultural practices, environmental risk mitigation and livelihood improvements : empirical evidence from Northern Ethiopia Ghent University
Using sustainable agriculture practices has various economic, social and environmental benefits. Determining the attitude of farmers toward risk is an important first step in understanding their behaviour and coping strategies to mitigate environmental risks. This paper investigates the dual impacts of some agricultural practices on agricultural yields and farmers' livelihoods considering sustainable farmland. Cross-sectional data is collected ...
The Role of Agricultural Trade and Trade Policy in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation KU Leuven
Food systems face a dual challenge: they are responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and are at the same time heavily affected by climate change. Agri-food trade across borders plays an important role in this challenge as food systems are globalized, and both the GHG emission intensity of and climate change impacts on agricultural production vary internationally. The overall research objective of the PhD thesis is to ...
Forest for people in the Peruvian Amazon: Livelihood contributions, conservation and restoration KU Leuven
Forests make fundamental contributions to the global environment and human societies, strengthening livelihoods, providing goods and services, conserving biodiversity and mitigating the effects of climate change. Nonetheless, the threat of deforestation, resulting from land use change decisions at different levels, continues to grow, affecting the subsistence of millions of people worldwide. Despite these challenges, a good understanding of the ...
COVID-19 as a social disease : qualitative analysis of COVID-19 prevention needs, impact of control measures and community responses among racialized/ethnic minorities in Antwerp, Belgium Ghent University Institute of Tropical Medicine
Background In high income countries, racialized/ethnic minorities are disproportionally affected by COVID-19. Despite the established importance of community involvement in epidemic preparedness, we lack in-depth understanding of these communities' experiences with and responses to COVID-19. We explored information and prevention needs, coping mechanisms with COVID-19 control measures and their impact on lived experiences among selected ...
River Re-naturalization in Upstream Flemish Basins: Integrating Urban Design and Hydraulic Modelling (Hernaturalisatie van rivieren in stroomopwaartse Vlaamse bekkens: Integratie van stedenbouwkundig ontwerp en waterbouwkundige modellering) KU Leuven
The rise in flooding issues seen in Flanders in recent years is attributed to the incremental paving over of the soil and the changes in precipitation schemes wrought by climate change(1). Climate change projections for Europe and Flanders indicate that the discharge into rivers will be significantly higher by 2020(2). For Flanders in particular, which is very densely urbanized, this means that the risk of flooding is going to be much greater if ...
Judging jellyfish: factors influencing perception on jellyfish and their blooms Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
During the last decades, the number of reports on invasions and blooms of jellyfish increased, both in the scientific literature and the general media. As extended time series are lacking, no clarity exists on whether the gelatinous zooplankton is really increasing or whether this is just a perception. Moreover, it is not clear how this ‘jellification’ is perceived by the public and how the media influences this perception. Public perception is ...