A5006115603- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- African history and culture studies
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- African Studies and Geopolitics
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Political Conflict and Governance
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- African Studies and Ethnography
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Agricultural pest management studies
- ICT Impact and Policies
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Genetically Modified Organisms Research
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- African history and culture analysis
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
Njala University
2013-2024
Office of Infectious Diseases
2023
Columbia University
2022
Wageningen University & Research
2007-2021
NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital
2019-2021
Centre for Development Economics
2020-2021
Palmetto Health Richland
2021
New York Hospital Queens
2019-2020
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
2019
Swansea University
2019
Global debates about vaccines as a key element of pandemic response and future preparedness in the era Covid-19 currently focus on questions supply, with attention to global injustice vaccine distribution African countries rightful beneficiaries international de-regulation financing initiatives such COVAX. At same time, demand uptake are seen be threatened by hesitancy, often attributed an increasingly globalised anti-vaxx movement its propagation misinformation conspiracy, now reaching...
Young people are the major participants in most wars. In African civil wars of last twenty years combatants have become increasingly youthful. Some forces made up largely young teenagers; may sometimes be as 8 or 10, and girl fighters common. The trend to more youthful also reflects discovery that children—their social support disrupted by war—make brave loyal fighters; company comrades arms becomes a family substitute. There two main adult reactions. first is stigmatise youth evil...
Journal Article To fight or to farm? Agrarian dimensions of the Mano River conflicts (Liberia and Sierra Leone) Get access Paul Richards is based at Wageningen University, Netherlands. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 104, Issue 417, October 2005, Pages 571–590, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi068 Published: 08 September 2005
The current outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in Upper West Africa is the largest ever recorded. Molecular evidence suggests spread has been almost exclusively through human-to-human contact. Social factors are thus clearly important to understand epidemic and ways which it might be stopped, but these have so far little analyzed. present paper focuses on Sierra Leone, provides cross sectional data least understood part epidemic—the largely undocumented rural areas. Various forms social...
This paper examines agrarian issues in civil wars Côte d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone. Attention is paid to two different ways which lineage society evolved during the colonial post‐colonial periods. The motivations of fighters are related these trajectories social change. In youth militia fought uphold a lineage‐based order, but Leone comparable group young sought overturn it. Large migrant populations on forest frontier an important factor d’Ivoire, while significance attaches excluded...
The bulk of analysis and commentary on violent conflicts in developing countries over the past 20 years or so has neglected dynamics tensions agrarian political economy. Introducing a special issue devoted to these dimensions armed conflict, non‐war violence post‐war repertoires mobilization, this paper argues for new research policy agenda. In doing so, we revive some older analytical approaches suggest that they can refresh enhance current scholarship. We argue too historical perspective:...
Was the civil war in Sierra Leone (1991–2002) fought for diamonds, or was it a peasant insurgency motivated by agrarian grievances? The evidence on both sides is less than conclusive. This article scrutinizes argument via more rigorous methodology. Hypotheses concerning intra-peasant tensions over marriage and farm labour are derived from an examination of anthropological literature. These tested using econometric tools, applied to data randomized survey 2,239 households 178 villages...
HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) reduces incident infections, but efficacy depends on adherence and retention, among other factors. Substance use disorders, unmet mental health needs, demographic factors are associated with nonadherence in HIV-infected patients; we studied whether these affect PrEP retention care.To investigate potential risk disengagement a comprehensive prevention program, conducted retrospective cohort analysis of individuals starting tenofovir-emtricitabine between...
Abstract Internationally, war in Sierra Leone (1991–2002) is regarded as an instance of violent conflict driven by economic factors (attempts to control the mining alluvial diamonds). Fieldwork (2000–01) rural areas recovering from suggests a very different picture. War victims and combatants factions stress importance political decay, corruption, injustice social exclusion young people. Other studies confirm There broadly based discussion communities about how address injustices held have...
This essay explores ground common to ecology and politics. It addresses the question what extent in ways are ecological ideas political ideas. The discussion, divided into five man sections, endeavors steer a course between pitfalls of environmental determinism on one hand economic reductionism other. first section deals with link population processes land use. Explanations stressing increase as driving force behind agricultural change contrasted arguments which demographic fluctuations...
This paper assesses the extent to which customary governance in Sierra Leone can be held responsible for an increasingly unstable two‐class agrarian society. A case is made regarding civil war (1991–2002) as being eruption of long‐term, entrenched tensions exacerbated by chiefly rule. Evidence presented suggest that main rebel movement embodied its plans reorganize agricultural production some grasp these longer‐term problems. Postwar attempts implement co‐operative farming and mining are...