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Rural women in low- and middle-income countries face multiple constraints in accessing and benefiting from essential complementary resources, technologies, and services for agricultural production and participation in the food system. This paper highlights recent thinking around these constraints and how to overcome them. Specifically, we consider complementary factors that allow women to access, retain, and maximally benefit from productive resources such as land, labor, and physical capital. The complementary factors we consider are: (1) networks and social capital resources (e.g., self-help groups, civil society groups, and cooperatives), (2) information and communications technology, (3) technology (e.g., modern agricultural inputs, mechanization, and labor-saving technologies), (4) agricultural extension and advisory services, (5) financial services (e.g., credit, formal savings, and insurance), and (6) social safety nets (e.g., cash transfer programs). We analyze the evolution in women's access to and ability to benefit from these complementary factors over the last decade and describe the potential benefits of reducing constraints and thus closing gaps. We further provide evidence on what has been effective (or not) for doing so. We conclude with policy recommendations.

About to lose his job at the Jesuit boys' high school where he has taught for twenty-two years, Óscar Dellosantos decides to give one final daring history lesson that provides a kaleidoscopic portrait of Cuba as it exists for its exiles and dispossessed, revealing in the process the shape and substance of his own life as well as that of his entire community. A first novel. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

In this book, several important points regarding Crohn's disease are discussed. In the first section, we focus on etiopathogeny of Crohn's disease and the recent advances in our overall understanding of the disease - specifically, the role of the gut epithelium, alterations of the epithelial crypts, and the roles of the different cytokines in the pathophysiology of Crohn's disease. In the second section, a diagnosis of Crohn's disease is discussed. Another particular area of focus is in the diagnosis of intestinal tuberculosis, and the role of mycobacterium avium in Crohn's disease. In the third and final section, the management of Crohn's disease is discussed, with a focus on recent evidence-based medicine recommendations.

The Phases of Revelation is exciting and captivating, containing a wealth of unique interpretive wisdom and insight concerning a very alive correlation to the Book of Revelation's present day meaning. It is significant and objectively convincing, with even a timeline correlative to current global events. The author's words come across with a certain experience that cannot easily be put into words. The work is nicely paced and engaging. He believes the Book of Revelation is a pure and non-ego biased source of images and descriptions that are directly from God who selected Saint John to be the medium for this vision. The author's assessment results in seventeen exciting and riveting chapters filled with modern significance and a uniquely revolutionary perspective and approach. You will find it to be based upon the author's true story told in his first book, AS I PASSED HIM: A Prophecy Within Our Times. In this book, THE PHASES OF REVELATION, you will run into uniquely intricate details of interpretative skill and mysticism mixed with a twist of objective assessment, interesting depictions, explanations and parallels related to current realities like: Human population and the Hall of Souls, The 1000 years is not years but the entirety of events, The Huge Red Dragon, Babylon the Great, The "iron rod" as a Christian stand amidst a hostile world, Saint Malachi's Prophecy of Peter the Roman and a living Cardinal, Sister Lucia's prophecy, A Christian Church alone in this wilderness of predators, The tribulation as proclamation and death phases amounting to a process of judgment.