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  1. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2014
    Algeria, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Mauritania, Chad, Mali, Cameroon, Senegal, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Niger, Eritrea, Africa

    Crown diameter and tree density were measured in 52 communities in the Sudan-Sahel using satellite imagery to determine the relationships between rainfall and distance from community center to crown size diameter and tree density. As distance from the community center increased, tree density and crown diameter decreased. As rainfall increased, tree density decreased while crown diameter increased. Distance from the community center is a proxy for age since urbanization and our results indicate that older parts of communities show longer and more consistent tree management.

  2. Library Resource
    February, 2014
    Ethiopia

    This paper evaluates the impact of
    strengthening legal rights on the types of economic
    opportunities that are pursued. Ethiopia changed its family
    law, requiring both spouses' consent in the
    administration of marital property, removing the ability of
    a spouse to deny permission for the other to work outside
    the home, and raising women's minimum age of marriage.
    Thus both access to resources and the removal of

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