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Agricultural development promises more growth and less poverty in Africa : modelling the potential impact of implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme in six countries Universiteit Gent
MotivationCountries of Africa have, through the Maputo and Malabo declarations and the companion Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) committed to increased public investment in agriculture. If implemented, this should contribute substantially to realizing several development goals, including reduction of poverty and hunger and making rural populations more resilient to climate change. PurposeHow much would ...
The poverty alleviation potential of tourism employment as an off-farm activity on the local livelihoods surrounding Kibale National Park, western Uganda KU Leuven
© The Author(s) 2016. Over the past decade, several scholars have argued that livelihood diversification in terms of off-farm activities is key for rural households to escape from poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Although the continuous growth of tourism in many SSA countries has created an additional off-farm income activity, empirical evidence is lacking to substantiate the poverty alleviating impact of tourism employment as being ...
Estimating the potential of beekeeping to alleviate household poverty in rural Uganda Universiteit Gent
Has the potential for compensating poverty by women's employment growth been depleted? Universiteit Antwerpen
A framework provided an outline toward the proper evaluation of potential screening strategies KU Leuven
OBJECTIVES: Screening tests are often introduced into clinical practice without proper evaluation, despite the increasing awareness that screening is a double-edged sword that can lead to either net benefits or harms. Our objective was to develop a comprehensive framework for the evaluation of new screening strategies. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: Elaborating on the existing concepts proposed by experts, a stepwise framework is proposed to evaluate ...
The protection of sports events in the EU: Property, intellectual property, unfair competition and special forms of protection KU Leuven
This article analyses some of the legal tools available to organisers of sporting events under EU law and the law of EU Member States. The focus is on remedies based on property rights and contracts, as well as on intellectual property, unfair competition rules and so called ?special? forms of protection. As it is well known, in fact, following the ECJ ruling in Premier League v. QC Leisure, sporting events as such do not qualify as works under ...
Dancing someone else's movements through someone else’s body : the process of commodification of the digital dancing body and the arising tensions with intellectual property regimes Universiteit Gent
In this article, we will describe the uneven conditions in which dance practices are being extracted and circulated by looking at how online gaming platforms have digitised and commodified human movement. The study of these controversial cases contextualised within the legal aspects of dance copyright are the basis to offer speculative courses for both dance practitioners. The first section explores the issues of digitisation and ownership of ...