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Abstract This brief by External Evaluator Abt Associates summarizes the evaluation of the AgResults Kenya On-Farm Storage Challenge Project. Abt Associates found that the competition created an emerging market for improved on-farm storage devices and increased adoption of on-farm storage technologies. However, impacts on farmer income were small. The brief underscores the challenge of constructing an accurate theory of change. This work is part of the AgResults programme Citation Ness-Edelstein, Betsy, Denise Mainville, Judy Geyer, and David Cooley. May 2020. Evaluation Findings: Kenya On-Far...

 E-Mail A new study by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health researchers poses a hypothetical question: What if air quality improvements in New York City during the spring 2020 COVID-19 shutdown were sustained for five years without the economic and health costs of the pandemic? They estimate cumulative benefits of clean air during this period would amount to thousands of avoided cases of illness and death in children and adults, as well as associated economic benefits between $32 to $77 billion. The study's findings are published in the journal Environmental Research. The res...

SHARE THIS December 21, 2020 Rockville, Md.  –  A new study finds that New York City’s two-month shutdown during COVID-19—while undeniably painful—could point the way toward saving thousands of lives through improved air quality, generating billions of dollars in related economic benefits in the process. Neighborhoods with higher percentages of low-income residents or higher percentages of Black or Latinx residents likely would benefit more from the reduced particulate matter concentrations. The study’s findings are published in the journal During the initial shutdown from March ...

Courtesy of Interiorstate LGBTQ bars and restaurants across the city are struggling to stay afloat amid the pandemic, with four West Hollywood institutions having already permanently shut their doors.  For more than 35 years, West Hollywood has been a Mecca for queer-owned businesses, housing dozens of gay bars and clubs along Santa Monica Boulevard. The past nine months, though, have seen the future of these businesses jeopardized, as they have been hit especially hard by the pandemic shutdown, with Silver Lake's Akbar recently launching a GoFundMe drive in order to secure its future. Four ...

what's .haing? >> it really makes your skin crawl. one activist was describing ho uh he was seeing a child with his head blown off. he was one of those individuals who had been filming the various youtube videos we have been combing through. at the same time, he was desensitized to the violence. that gives you a slight idea of what people have gone through. other survivors describing ho uh a security forces pro government thugs came through there, dragged women by their hair. threw everyone into a room as if they were sheep and open fired on them quite indiskrit pennantly. 49 bodies ...