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Boosting food production in Africa requires investments in vocational training, agricultural research, digitization, mechanization, sustainable land use and small-scale irrigation. Access to capital and markets must be improved, political stability ensured, farmers' associations supported and development assistance expanded.

The book offers five studies tackling the issue(s) of explanation and prediction in linguistics from different perspectives. The studies were conducted by internationally renowned experts in generative linguistics, biolinguistics, language philosophy, and functional linguistics.

Although legal arrangements have been made against discrimination, discrimination is both explicitly and implicitly active in different parts of society and in different areas. In order to recognize, understand, and oppose these forms of discrimination, it is necessary to be a defender of human rights and to know what discrimination means.

Der Band stellt zwei Themenbereiche der Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung in den Vordergrund: das Deutsche als Fremd- und Zweitsprache sowie die Besonderheiten des herkunftssprachlichen Erwerbs. Unterschiedliche Bildungskonstellationen werden betrachtet. Eine verbindende Linie stellt die Berucksichtigung der interkulturellen Perspektive dar.

This volume addresses human communication as a phenomenon, with a particular focus on "intersubjective plateaus'. It explores the ecological aspect of intersubjectivity as a facet of communication. It will appeal to linguists, philosophers, practitioners and teachers of intercultural communication, and sign language practitioners and ethnographers.

The book by Monika Talarczyk is devoted to the life and work of Wanda Jakubowska (1907-1998), Polish film director, author of The Last Stage (1948), who is said to be the Mother of All Holocaust Films. She is also considered a pioneer of women's cinema and recognized as the first Polish woman film director who gained worldwide renown.

The book presents capacity of states and international institutions in preventing mass human-rights violations and atrocity crimes. The preventive international instruments, such as early warning, diplomacy, as well as legal, economic and military measures are included. Cases studies involve Chechnya, Rwanda, Cote d'Ivoire and Libya.

The ethnographic research into death rituals and food practices in the Polish-Belarusian borderland shows that the symbolic boundaries between the Catholic and Orthodox believers are dynamic and situational. The religious identity of the residents is shaped by social relations and norms more than by the institutional frames of both churches.

This book presents topics regarding economics, public finance and business. It is aimed at educators, researchers, and students interested in public finance, business and economics.

Public Finance, Business, Economics, Panel Data Analysis, Tax, Inflation, Economic growth, Public Expenditure, Public Revenue, Business Management, Money Supply, Political Globalization, Leadership

This book contributes to the discussion about the instrumental use of history. It analyses two examples of public festivities related to the events and legacy of the final stage of World War II: the Liberation Festival in Pilsen and the celebration of the Slovak National Uprising anniversary, held annually in Banska Bystrica.

Ibn Sina - or Avicenna as he is known in the Latin West - is perhaps the most representative figure of medicine and philosophy in the world. His influence was not limited to the East, but also extended profoundly to the West. In brief, he was an authority in the Islamic East and Latin West.

This volume reflects on the complexity of relations between traditional and new media. The collected articles focus on the increasing dynamism of dependencies between literature, visual arts, and digital media. They analyse the evolutions of the media through which art is made available to the public.