This paper considers the economic prospects for reducing carbon emissions and increasing carbon storage in the habitable drylands of Africa. Particular attention is paid to the semi-arid and drier sub-humid agro-ecological zones of sub-Saharan Africa. Crop and animal agriculture are the main sour...
Swallow, B.M.
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[Towards incentive-compatible mechanisms for enhanced carbon storage in the African drylands]
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Towards incentive-compatible mechanisms for enhanced carbon storage in the African drylands
Reid, Robin S.
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Wilson, C.J.
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Kruska, R.L.
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Swallow, B.M.
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Ellis, J.E.
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Perry, Brian D.
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[Trypanosomiasis control: The conflict between food production and biodiversity in Africa]
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Trypanosomiasis control: The conflict between food production and biodiversity in Africa
Echessah, P.N.
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Kamara, D.W.
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Swallow, B.M.
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Curry, J.J.
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[Using contingent valuation to assess individuals' willingness to contribute to community-based tsetse control in Busia District, Kenya]
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Using contingent valuation to assess individuals' willingness to contribute to community-based tsetse control in Busia District, Kenya
The use of baited traps and targets to control the tsetse fly has the potential for successful and sustainable trypanosomiasis control by local communities. However, with community-based programmes, community organisational capacity, incentives needed to initiate and sustain programmes, and intra...
Kamara, D.
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Echessah, P.
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Swallow, B.M.
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Curry, J.
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[Assessment of the socio-economic factors affecting implementation of community-based tsetse control in Busia, Kenya]
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Assessment of the socio-economic factors affecting implementation of community-based tsetse control in Busia, Kenya
While several traps and targets have been developed to suppress the tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) that transmit trypanosomiasis there have been few examples of self-sustaining `community-based' tsetse control programmes using these devices. The prospects for community-based tsetse control is being...
Kamara, D.W.
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Swallow, B.M.
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Echessah, P.N.
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Curry, J.J.
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[Combining quantitative, qualitatif and participatory research methods in assessment of the prospects for community-based tsetse control in Busia District, Kenya]
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Combining quantitative, qualitatif and participatory research methods in assessment of the prospects for community-based tsetse control in Busia District, Kenya
A tsetse control campaign using an insecticidal cypermethrin "pour-on" applied monthly to village Zebu cattle in Ghibe in southwest Ethiopia has been in operation for over six years. For four of these years farmers have paid a cost-recovery price for each animal given treatment. Relative densitie...
Mulatu, W.
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Swallow, B.M.
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Rowlands, G.J.
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Leak, S.G.A.
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D'Ieteren, G.D.M.
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Nagda, S.M.
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[Economic benefits to farmers of six years of application of an insecticidal 'pour-on' to control tsetse in Ghibe, southwest Ethiopia]
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Economic benefits to farmers of six years of application of an insecticidal 'pour-on' to control tsetse in Ghibe, southwest Ethiopia
This chapter focuses on individual adoption of a technology that produces a mixed public-private good. The technology is a formulation of insecticide that is applied to cattle as a "pouron". The mixed public-private good is control of external parasites and animal disease vectors. This chapter pr...
Swallow, B.M.
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Wangila, J.
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Mulatu, W.
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Okello, O.
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McCarthy, N.
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[Collective action in space: Assessing how cooperation and collective action vary across an African landscape]
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Collective action in space: Assessing how cooperation and collective action vary across an African landscape
Since April 1990 a tsetse control experiment with the synthetic pyrethroid Ectopour has been conducted in the Gullele-Tolley area of the Ghibe Valley, southwest Ethiopia. Monthly applications of the pour-on were given to about 2,000 cattle between April 1991 and July 1992 and about 3,000 cattle b...
Tsetse control programme using traps, targets and trypanocide pour-on in Sissili, agro-pastoral zone of Burkina Faso, started in 1994 after an epidemics of animal trypanosomiasis which has destroyed almost 70 percent of cattle population. This area has been occupied by Fulani pastorlists of a gov...
Kamuanga, M.
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Kabore, I.
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Swallow, B.M.
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Amsler-Delafosse, S.
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Bauer, B.
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[Evaluating factors affecting implementation of community-based tsetse control in southern Burkina Faso. Part 1: Use of insecticide impregnated screens]
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Evaluating factors affecting implementation of community-based tsetse control in southern Burkina Faso. Part 1: Use of insecticide impregnated screens
A tsetse control experiment with 500 deltamethrin-impregnated targets was initiated in the Ghibe Valley, south-west Ethiopia, in April 1990. The theft of a large number of targets following the socio-political disturbances of May 1991 spoiled major reductions in tsetse density and trypanosome pre...
Swallow, B.M.
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Mulatu, W.
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[Evaluating the willingness of Ghibe Valley (Ethiopia) residents to contribute time and money to a tsetse control programme using targets]
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Evaluating the willingness of Ghibe Valley (Ethiopia) residents to contribute time and money to a tsetse control programme using targets