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Sustainability in higher education in the Asia-Pacific: developments, challenges, and prospects
(University of Nairobi, 2010)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the contributions of the Asia-Pacific region to leading practice in sustainability in higher education (HE), as prelude and orientation to this special issue ...
Herders' knowledge on mineral nutrition and implication on sheep and goat productivity in Marsabit South District, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
A cross-sectional survey was undertaken in Merille location, Marsabit South district of northern Kenya to assess indigenous knowledge on mineral nutrition of sheep and goats. Questionnaires were administered to herders ...
Land under pressure.
(2011)
This chapter presents and discusses the causes of land degradation, and ways of sustainable land development and agricultural productivity. The evidence presented here suggests several avenues for achieving a world without ...
Long-term challenges to food security and rural livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2012)
This briefing paper is one of the
10-part Global Development
Network (GDN) Agriculture Policy
Series for its project, ‘Supporting
Policy Research to Inform
Agricultural Policy in Sub-Saharan
Africa and South Asia’. ...
Strategies for Adapting to Climate Change in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa
(2010-07)
The ten ASARECA member countries (Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda) have adopted, or are planning to adopt, a range of climate change adaptation ...
The political economy of timber governance in Ghana
(University of Nairobi,, 2012)
Diagnostic and Control Tools and Strategies for Taenia solium cysticercosis (ASARECA/AB/2009/01)
(University of Nairobi, 2011)
Should we design extended or straightforward questions for small stock when records are unavailable?
(2012)
Data from two closely related questions in a survey on rabbits is analyzed in order to determine whether results from these two groups of questions would yield similar results about numbers of rabbits kept by a household. ...
The Kenya Dual Purpose Goat development project
(University of Nairobi., 2010)
Evaluation of Ankole pastoral production systems in Uganda: Systems analysis approach
(University of Nairobi., 2011)
The production objectives of Ankole cattle pastoral production system are shifting from
traditional subsistence to commercial enterprises involving adoption of a new production
system where farmers keep separate herds ...