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THE INFLUENCE OF COVERAGE ATTRIBUTES ON COMMUNAL FARMERS' WILLINGNESS TO ADOPT CATTLE INSURANCE IN LUPANE DISTRICT, ZIMBABWE
Views:228This study examines the role of coverage attributes specifically, their scope, clarity, and relevance in influencing the willingness of communal farmers to adopt cattle insurance. The research was guided by the Stakeholder Networking Theory. Employing a mixed-methods approach in Lupane District, Zimbabwe, the research utilized a sample of 219 communal farmers, selected via multistage sampling for quantitative data, and 25 key informants, selected using purposive sampling for qualitative data. The Probit regression analysis revealed a statistically significant positive coefficient of 0.242 (p<0.001) for the relationship between Coverage Attributes and Willingness to Adopt. This indicates that farmers' decisions are significantly driven by the comprehensiveness of covered risks and the simplicity of the policy's terms. The findings highlight that existing products fail to meet farmer expectations regarding risk coverage and ease of understanding. This study concludes that insurance schemes must be designed to be both comprehensive and user-friendly, providing practical insights for creating policies that are genuinely attractive and relevant to the specific needs of this vulnerable demographic.
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IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON PEOPLES’ LIVELIHOOD AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION IN UGANDA
Views:432Livestock sector in Uganda contributes significantly towards individual household income and food security and even though peoples’ dependance on livestock production for survival in Uganda is a reality, it’s also undeniable that livestock, which provides food and revenue on a worldwide scale, would be vulnerable to the direct or indirect consequences of climate change. Agriculture contributed 24.1% of the Uganda’s GDP in the financial year (FY) 2021–2022 and according to the Uganda bureau of standards (UBOS), agriculture employs over 70% of Uganda's working population. The purpose of this present study was to to evaluate the impact of climate change on peoples’ livelihood and livestock production in Uganda. Bibliometric analysis was the quantitative technique used for reviewing and describing published publications that assisted in evaluating academic works from secondary data obtained on digital databases in the context of this study. The VOS viewer software was used as a tool to perform the co-occurrence analysis, and then to realize the visualization of the impact of climate change on peoples’ livelihood and livestock production in Uganda using articles analysed on platform research with associated references from the Web of Science database. The visualisation highlighted topical areas that reflect the impacts of climate on peoples’ livelihood and livestock such as diseases, drought, coping strategies, greenhouse gases, drought, vulnerability, dry lands, mobility among pastoral communities, low productivity, reduced forage resources, elevated temperature extra all of which negatively affects the economic levels of individuals and the national income from livestock either directly or directly. Conclusively, interventions that are aimed at improving climate smartness in Uganda’s livestock farming communities may have significant food security and income benefits for different livelihoods.
Keywords: climate, livestock animals, livelihood, income
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Reducing consumption of food with high level of fat, sugar and/or salt among young generation
85-91Views:312The young generation is the most influenced and vulnerable segment of the market. Food with high level of fat, sugar and/or salt are popularised for this segment.At the same time nearly 7 people die of obesity or from complications of obesity in Hungary each hour – one every 9minutes. Less than 10% of youth are of the belief of eating healthy and more then one third of youth don’t take care about healthy eating. The young generation can be especially influenced by use of well-known persons, prize games and free gifts. The idea of fat tax’s introduction could be an obvious proposal.
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Reducing consumption of food with high level of fat, sugar and/or salt among young generation
79-85Views:361The young generation is the most influenced and vulnerable segment of the market. Food with high level of fat, sugar and/or salt are popularised for this segment.At the same time nearly 7 people die of obesity or from complications of obesity in Hungary each hour – one every 9 minutes. Less than 10% of youth are of the belief of eating healthy and more then one third of youth don’t take care about healthy eating. The young generation can be especially influenced by use of well-known persons, prize games and free gifts. The idea of fat tax’s introduction could be an obvious proposal.
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The responsibility of marketing and legislation in childhood obesity
85-90Views:308The purchasing power of youth is considerable; they are the market of the future. , the young generation is the most influenced and vulnerable segment of the economy. The greatest problem of the influencing of our children is the rising cost of childhood obesity. The health care system cannot keep up with the pressure of obesity. Today, the risk of obesity is a bigger problem than smoking or alcoholism. The greatest problem is that youth underestimates the cost and risk of consumption of foods with high levels of fats, sugar and/or salt.
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DISTRESS SALES AS LIVELIHOOD STRATEGY: COMMERCIALIZATION AND THE PERSISTENCE OF POVERTY AMONG WIDOWED FARMERS IN CONFLICT-AFFECTED NIGERIA
Views:0Widowhood is a catastrophic event for women farmers at any stage of their lives, with serious implications for their well-being. We examines the effect of household commercialization on poverty of widowed cowpea farmers in North-east Nigeria. Multistage dsampling procedure was employed which arrived at 525 respondents. The Data were collected using structured questionnaire and analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistic (muliple regression). The result revealed that Household commercialization index (HCI) was 55.44% and 54.19% of the IDPs and host communities respectively. The average progress out of poverty index (PPI) score was lower for IDP farmers (33.55) compared to host community farmers (42.96) with homogeneity in both. Explanatory variables influencing PPI explained 35.30% of its variation, Legume farming experience and value harvest were found to be improving PPI, Household size and IDP status were reducing the PPI. The HCI was explaining 4.7% of Poverty of widowed cowpea farmers, and the HCI had inverse relationship with poverty. All in all, widowed cowpea farmers’ household commercialization increases poverty by 0.126, with heterogeneity among households with higher legume farming experience, lower household sizes, IDPs host communities and higher value of cowpea which experienced less poverty in the study area. Strengthening cooperative development, promoting value addition of cowpea products, expanding access to financial services and targeted support for widowed farmers is hence recommended.
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