The global phenomenon of climate change constitutes major threats to Africa (IPCC, 2007). Although the impact of climate change is global, for various reasons including the state of preparedness of the continent, it has been estimated that Africa will be most vulnerable to climate change (Arnell,...
Yatich, T.
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Swallow, B.M.
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Ajayi, Oluyede C.
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Minang, Peter A.
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Wakhayanga J
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[Community-based adaptation to climate change in Africa: a typology of information and institutional requirements for promoting uptake of existing adaptation technologies]
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Community-based adaptation to climate change in Africa: a typology of information and institutional requirements for promoting uptake of existing adaptation technologies
Determining the level of payment and selecting participants are important but frequently neglected issues that affect social, economic and environmental performance of payment for environmental services (PES) programs. We use a pilot auction to address these issues in the context of a PES program...
Jindal R
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Kerr JM
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Ferraro, P.J.
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Swallow, B.M.
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[Social dimensions of procurement auctions for environmental service contracts: Evaluating trade-offs between cost-effectiveness and participation by the poor in rural Tanzania]
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Social dimensions of procurement auctions for environmental service contracts: Evaluating trade-offs between cost-effectiveness and participation by the poor in rural Tanzania
This introductory paper raises general issues and poses questions that are pursued in the other papers. The initial premise of this paper is that impact cannot be discussed in isolation from the broader context of research and development and the overall priorities guiding the centres research, t...
Increasing attention to watershed management is part of an international policy trend toward integrated water resource management. Integration is multidimensional across sectors, administrative regions, ministerial portfolios and levels of hydrologic structure and socioeconomic organization. Coll...
Swallow, B.M.
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Johnson, Nancy L.
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Knox McCulloch, A
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[The challenges of inclusive cross-scale collective action in watersheds]
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The challenges of inclusive cross-scale collective action in watersheds
This paper explores the potential for future economic impacts to arise from the current and future research activities of international agricultural research centres. Special attention is given to the livestock-related research conducted by ILCA. Unfortunately a method for quantifying potential e...
This introductory paper raises general issues and poses questions that are pursued in the other papers. The initial premise of this paper is that impact cannot be discussed in isolation from the broader context of research and development and the overall priorities guiding the centres research, t...
African animal trypanosomiasis constaints the production of milk, meat and animal traction across much of sub-Saharan Africa. The tsetse-transmitted disease is particularly important in Ethiopia where at least six million cattle are exposed to the disease. In 1000 a trypanosomiasis control progra...
Swallow, B.M.
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Mulatu, W.
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[Evaluating willingness to contribute to a local public good: Application of contingent valuation to tsetse control in Ethiopia]
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Evaluating willingness to contribute to a local public good: Application of contingent valuation to tsetse control in Ethiopia
A household survey was conducted in six villages of Busia District, Kenya, to assess people's willingness to contribute labor and money to control the tsetse flies that transmit trypanosomiasis. A Heckman's two-step model was estimated to identify factors affecting the probability that a responde...
Echessah, P.N.
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Swallow, B.M.
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Kamara, D.W.
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Curry, J.J.
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[Willingness to contribute labor and money to tsetse control: application of contingent valuation in Busia District, Kenya]
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Willingness to contribute labor and money to tsetse control: application of contingent valuation in Busia District, Kenya
The Borana rangelands of southern Ethiopia are characterised by extensive livestock production in response to the area?s natural characteristics - aggregate mean rainfall ranges between 300 and 900 mm per annum with high seasonal and inter-annual variability. Though traditionally transhumant past...
Kamara, A.
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Swallow, B.M.
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Kirk, M.
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[Role of policies and development interventions in pastoral resource management: the Borana rangelands in southern Ethiopia]
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Role of policies and development interventions in pastoral resource management: the Borana rangelands in southern Ethiopia
Kamara, Abdul B.
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Kirk, M.
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Swallow, B.M.
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[Property rights and land use change: implications for sustainable resource management in Borana, Southern Ethiopia]
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Property rights and land use change: implications for sustainable resource management in Borana, Southern Ethiopia