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Many small-scale grain-crop farmers in northern Nigeria encounter environmental, economic, political, and technological risks. This research investigates the farming supply chain value risks and assesses the resilience capacity of grains-crop farmers in North-Western Nigeria. Data gathering involved purposive sampling to conduct qualitative interviews. Findings suggest that poor infrastructure, activities of insurgent groups, unfavourable weather conditions, limited access to finance, high cost of inputs, and inadequate technologies are some of the major challenges facing small-scale grain farmers in northern Nigeria. Research advocates better support to farmers to help prevent risks or overcome the effects of risks. Training and adult literacy skills for rural farmholders are advocated in this work. Policies delivered to rural farmers will lower risks to farmers and support the ability for stronger resilience. This study adopted qualitative research which implies that the outcome will not represent all the smallholder farmers in North-Western Nigeria. Future researchers may adopt quantitative analysis to be more representative.

YouTubeScrap is an open-source tool that streamlines the collection, analysis, and organization of YouTube video data and transcripts, tailored to researchers, analysts, and content creators. Designed for accessibility and efficiency, this tool enables users to perform targeted searches, extract detailed metadata, and retrieve multilingual transcripts without requiring API keys-addressing growing restrictions on data accessibility. Operating seamlessly within Google Colab, YouTubeScrap leverages a cloud-based infrastructure to eliminate installation barriers, offering a ready-to-use environment for users with varying technical expertise. The tool integrates Python libraries such as yt_dlp, YouTubeTranscriptAPI, and scrapetube to automate video searches, filter results by criteria like keywords and date ranges, and store outputs in Google Sheets for easy collaboration and compliance with international data privacy standards. This API-free solution democratizes access to digital content, enabling large-scale data collection and analysis across academic research, media studies, and communication fields. By simplifying complex data-handling processes, YouTubeScrap empowers users to navigate vast digital landscapes ethically and efficiently, promoting equitable access to critical online information in an era of increasing platform restrictions. This tool serves as a scalable, user-friendly resource for engaging and advancing data-driven research.

In the past few years, more than six million EU citizens living in the UK have transitioned to a new immigration status. The only evidence they have of this new status is in digital form. This group is now navigating the UK's ‘compliant environment’, designed to deter unauthorised migration, with this new form of status. This has created an unpredictable new dynamic with serious risks of discrimination in everyday interactions, such as when people are trying to rent a property. In this article, we explore the impact of this digital‐only status by drawing on a large‐scale discrete choice experiment with private rented sector landlords, which shows that people with digital‐only immigration status are substantially penalised on the private rental market due to the form of their ID. We argue that this discrimination is not only troubling in substance but also arguably amounts to a breach of non‐discrimination and equal treatment provisions under the Withdrawal Agreement (Article 12 and Article 23 respectively). The apparent lack of effective enforcement points to the potential limits of such protections after Brexit.

IntroductionSelf-harm and suicide are major public health concerns among children and adolescents. Many risk and protective factors for suicide and self-harm have been identified and reported in the literature. However, the capacity of these identified risk and protective factors to guide assessment and management is limited due to their great number. This protocol describes an ongoing systematic review and meta-analysis which aims to examine longitudinal studies of risk factors for self-harm and suicide in children and adolescents, to provide a comparison of the strengths of association of the various risk factors for self-harm and suicide and to shed light on those that require further investigation.Methods and analysisWe perform a systematic search of the literature using the databases EMBASE, PsycINFO, Medline, CINAHL and HMIC from inception up to 28 October 2020, and the search will be updated before the systematic review publication. Additionally, we will contact experts in the field, including principal investigators whose peer-reviewed publications are included in our systematic review as well as investigators from our extensive research network, and we will search the reference lists of relevant reviews to retrieve any articles that were not identified in our search. We will extract relevant data and present a narrative synthesis and combine the results in meta-analyses where there are sufficient data. We will assess the risk of bias for each study using the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale and present a summary of the quantity and the quality of the evidence for each risk or protective factor.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval will not be sought as this is a systematic review of the literature. Results will be published in mental health journals and presented at conferences focused on suicide prevention.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42021228212.

Abstract The financial risks and potential systemic impacts induced by climate change and the transition to a low‐carbon economy have become a central issue for both financial investors and their regulators. In this article, we develop a critical review of the empirical and theoretical literature concerning the impact of climate‐related risks on the price of financial assets. We first present the theoretical links between asset pricing and climate‐related risks and develop a theory of how climate risk drivers transmit costs to firms and lead to asset price changes. We then discuss studies looking at past climate‐related events, which show that both climate physical impacts and transition dynamics can trigger a revaluation of financial assets through multiple direct and indirect channels. Finally, we review the emerging literature that uses forward‐looking methodologies to estimate future climate‐related asset price changes, which suggests that climate financial risks can indeed have significant implications on financial stability.

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