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With increasing pressures from global changes (urbanization, climate change, etc.), cities in Africa will experience difficulties in efficiently managing water resources. Most of the urbanization in Africa over the next 30 years will occur in fast-growing small towns that lack mature infrastructu...


Bahri, A.Brikke, F.Vairavamoorthy, Kalanithy[Managing change to implement integrated urban water management in African cities]Managing change to implement integrated urban water management in African cities

For a long time, trypanosomosis, spread by the tsetse fly Glossina, constrained human settlement in the Lambwe Valley, a south-western Kenya rangeland. After lengthy efforts to control tsetse over many years, the valley is currently experiencing an increase in human population growth rate, and r...


Muriuki, G.W.Njoka, T.J.Reid, Robin S.Nyariki, D.M.[Tsetse control and land-use change in Lambwe valley, south-western Kenya]Tsetse control and land-use change in Lambwe valley, south-western Kenya

Current patterns of agricultural expansion and intensification are bringing unprecedented environmental externalities, including impacts on water quality. While water pollution is slowly starting to receive the attention it deserves, the contribution of agriculture to this problem has not yet rec...


Mateo-Sagasta, JavierZadeh, S.M.Turral, H.[More people, more food, worse water?: a global review of water pollution from agriculture]More people, more food, worse water?: a global review of water pollution from agriculture

Rapid growth of the human and livestock populations in sub-Saharan Africa is creating unprecedented increases in food and feed demands. These population pressures on a fixed landbases are likely to promote severe competition for resources and drive agriculture progressively towards intensificatio...


Smith, Jimmy W.Naazie, A.Larbi, AsamoahAgyemang, K.Tarawali, Shirley A.[Integrated crop-livestock systems in sub-Saharan Africa: An option or an imperative?]Integrated crop-livestock systems in sub-Saharan Africa: An option or an imperative?

This paper explores changes in rural livelihoods in some communal areas of Zimbabwe from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, and attempts to identify the determinants of change. There were notable increases in: use of informal credit as a main income source; growing certain cash crops; gardening as a...


Campbell, Bruce M.Mukamuri, B.B.Kowero, G.S.[Exploring changing rural livelihoods, and woodland use and management in the communal areas of Zimbabwe]Exploring changing rural livelihoods, and woodland use and management in the communal areas of Zimbabwe

The spatial distribution and growth of human populations have been overlooked by current debates concerning the impact of rural–urban migration for forest conservation in tropical countries. We investigated human settlement and population change in the Brazilian Amazon, combining government censu...


Parry, L.Peres, C.A.Day, B.Amaral, S.[Rural–urban migration brings conservation threats and opportunities to Amazonian watersheds]Rural–urban migration brings conservation threats and opportunities to Amazonian watersheds
Wertz-Kanounnikoff, S.Angelsen, A.[Quelles actions REDD+ pour faire face aux facteurs de pression sur les forêts?]Quelles actions REDD+ pour faire face aux facteurs de pression sur les forêts?

Deforestation in the uplands of Eastern Bangladesh, has reached an alarming rate in recent years due to the various pressures of a growing population, land clearances for agriculture, illegal felling, development interventions, gaps in policy and legislation, and conflicting institutional mandate...


Rahman, S.A.Rahman, F.[Managing forest at a landscape scale: reconciling smallholder forest culture in the uplands of Eastern Bangladesh]Managing forest at a landscape scale: reconciling smallholder forest culture in the uplands of Eastern Bangladesh

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