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Institutional Mapping for Climate Change Adaptation in Eastern Africa
(2008)The Eastern African region, including the Horn of Africa, is highly vulnerable to climate change and several of its major sectors that significantly contribute to the sub-region’s economies will be severely affected. ... -
Integrating life cycle approaches to African national development policies: considering the institutional dimension of industrial ecology
(2004)This paper considers developments in the area of industrial ecology applications and public policy, and the need to facilitate the proliferation of life cycle approaches in Africa through national development policies. It ... -
Vulnerability to climate change in three hot spots in Africa and Asia: key issues for policy-relevant adaptation and resilience-building research
(2015)Providing sound evidence to inform decision-making that considers the needs of the most vulnerable to climate change will help both adaptation and development efforts. Such evidence is particularly important in climate ... -
Towards Sustainable Charcoal Production and Use: a Systems Approach
(2002)The majority of African households will continue depending on traditional fuels to meet their daily energy needs for many decades to come. In particular, the demand for charcoal in most countries in the region continues ... -
Greenhouse gas emissions and energy balances of jatropha biodiesel as an alternative fuel in Tanzania
(2013)This paper evaluates GHG emissions and energy balances (i.e. net energy value (NEV), net renewable energy value (NREV) and net energy ratio (NER)) of jatropha biodiesel as an alternative fuel in Tanzania by using life cycle ... -
Impacts of greenhouse gas and particulate emissions from woodfuel production and end-use in sub-Saharan Africa
(2004)Household energy in sub-Saharan Africa is largely derived from woodfuels burned in simple stoves with poor combustion characteristics. These devices emit products of incomplete combustion [PICs] that both damage human ... -
Draft final report of the LCM definition study
(2003)Life Cycle Management is a new framework to meet our present global challenges towards more sustainable patterns of production and consumption. In this context, LCM is offering a platform for the private and public sector. ... -
Tropical parasitic diseases
(2010)The term “parasitic diseases” is used in a restricted sense to refer to those diseases caused by protozoa (malaria, schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis, trypanosomiasis, amoebiasis, giardiasis) and helminths (hookworm, ascaris, ... -
A cascade of biochemical and physiological markers in pathological disorders
(2012)A few years ago, a neurophysiology lecturer in the Department of Medical Physiology, University of Nairobi, was doing some research on possible indicators in malnourished children. The first indicator he chose was the ... -
Sustained responses to measles revaccination in HIV Infected Children on ART in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015-02-26)Background: Despite recent advances in reducing measles incidence in Africa, a number of measles outbreaks have occurred in countries with high HIV prevalence. One hypothesis is that there is a growing population of ... -
The role of drugs in control of malaria
(2011)In the early 1960s, President Kwame Nkrumah, the then doyen of Pan African politics, suggested that it would be appropriate to erect a monument in honour of mosquito which had frustrated European colonization of the West ... -
Chemical residues in food of animal origin
(2009)The presence of chemical residues in food of animal origin has been of great concern worldwide. The chemicals of interest include pesticides, drugs, growth hormones and environmental contaminants which accidentally find ... -
Cosmetics–Quality and safety concerns
(2010)The term cosmetic is used to refer to a range of beauty products which include skin-care creams, shampoo, lotions, powders, perfumes, facial make up, lipsticks, finger nail and toe nail polishes, hair colours, etc. A ...