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The synergistic effects of microcredit access and agricultural technology adoption on maize farmer's income in Kenya.
PLoS One
January 2025
Commercialization Division, CSIR-Soil Research Institute, Kumasi, Ghana.
Addressing global food security demands urgent improvement in agricultural productivity, particularly in developing economies where market imperfections are perverse and resource constraints prevail. While microcredit is widely acknowledged as a tool for economic empowerment, its role in facilitating agricultural technology adoption and improving agricultural incomes remains underexplored. This study examines the synergistic effects of microcredit access and agricultural technology adoption on the incomes of maize farmers in Kenya.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEpistemic trust-trust in the relevance and utility of social learning-is central to helping processes between clients and workers in helping services. Yet, due to their experiences, clients may develop predispositions toward stances of epistemic mistrust or epistemic credulity. From an AMBIT (adaptive mentalization-based integrative treatment) perspective, this article argues that epistemic mistrust and credulity are both social injustice and further social injustice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrevention and potential remedies for antibiotic resistance: current research and future prospects.
Front Microbiol
October 2024
Molecular Biology Lab, School of Biotechnology, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, India.
The increasing threat of antibiotic resistance and shrinking treatment options for infections have pushed mankind into a difficult position. The looming threat of the return of the pre-antibiotic era has caused a sense of urgency to protect and conserve the potency of antibiotic therapy. One of the perverse effects of antibiotic resistance is the dissemination of its causative agents from non-clinically important strains to clinically important strains and vice versa.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStakeholder perspectives on the sustainability of the United States biosimilars market.
J Manag Care Spec Pharm
October 2024
CHOICE Institute, School of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle.
Biologic therapies play a critical role in modern medical practice but also present challenges for payers, patients, and other stakeholders because of their high cost. Biosimilars can mitigate the cost pressures of reference biologic therapy because they are typically priced at least 25% lower, providing a means to administer cutting-edge biologic therapy while also managing cost of care. In fact, the US health care system has saved an estimated $23.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRegimes of pain: The geopolitics of cancer palliation in Pakistan.
Med Anthropol Q
September 2024
Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
This article examines how militarized regimes of narcotics and price control sustain unpalliated cancer pain in Pakistan. It shows how these regimes of control-reimagined as "regimes of pain"-render morphine, a cheap, effective opiate analgesic, scarce in hospitals. Meanwhile, heroin, morphine's illegal derivative, proliferates in illicit circuits.
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