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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)
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. ...
When Human rights is the starting point for evaluation
(2012)
Citizens are former colonial powers are often baffled as to why indigenous or colonized peoples seem to suffer disproportionately from alcoholism, homelessness, mental illness, disease, lethargy, fatalism, or dependency. ...
The impact of climate change on the incidence of cattle diseases in a pastoral area of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2013)
Participatory epidemiological methods were used to establish local perceptions and livestock owner’s knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAPs) of risk factors of climate variability, the seasonal variations in incidences ...