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, Javier
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Zadeh, S.M.
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Turral, H.
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[More people, more food, worse water?: a global review of water pollution from agriculture]
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More people, more food, worse water?: a global review of water pollution from agriculture
Williams, Timothy O.
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Mul, Marloes L.
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Biney, C.A.
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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[The Volta River Basin: water for food, economic growth and environment]
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The Volta River Basin: water for food, economic growth and environment
Vaccination services for people and livestock often fail to achieve sufficient coverages in Africa's remote rural settings because of financial, logistic, and service delivery constraints. In Chad from 2000 through 2005, we demonstrated the feasibility of combining vaccination programs for nomadi...
Schelling, E.
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Bechir, M.
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Ahmed, M.A.
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Wyss, K.
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Randolph, Thomas F.
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Zinsstag, Jakob
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[Human and animal vaccination delivery to remote nomadic families, Chad]
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Human and animal vaccination delivery to remote nomadic families, Chad
The major role played by informal milk markets in Kenya and the benefits to those associated with it are now widely acknowledged. The benefits include higher prices for farmers, income generation for the market agents and convenient delivery and lower prices for poor consumers. However, in spite ...
Omore, Amos O.
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Arimi, S.M.
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Kang'ethe, Erastus K.
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McDermott, John J.
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Staal, Steven J.
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[Analysis of milk-borne public health risks in milk markets in Kenya]
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Analysis of milk-borne public health risks in milk markets in Kenya
Although wastewater has been increasingly used to grow a range of crops for income generation and livelihood resilience in urban and peri-urban areas, irrigation with untreated or partially treated wastewater may result in negative impacts on irrigated crops, soils, and groundwater along with imp...
Fernando, Sudarshana
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Semasinghe, Christina
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Jayathilake, Nilanthi
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Wijayamunie, R.
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Wickramasinghe, N.
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Dissanayake, S.
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[City region food system situational analysis, Colombo, Sri Lanka]
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City region food system situational analysis, Colombo, Sri Lanka
This analysis provides new estimates of chronic kidney disease (CKD) prevalence – including CKD of unknown etiology (CKDu) – across ten districts most affected by CKD in Sri Lanka, including an examination of rural households' historical reliance on groundwater consumption. A carefully designed h...
Kafle, Kashi
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Balasubramanya, Soumya
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Horbulyk, Ted
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[Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in Sri Lanka: a profile of affected districts reliant on groundwater]
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Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in Sri Lanka: a profile of affected districts reliant on groundwater
Consecutive outbreaks of acute aflatoxicosis in Kenya in 2004 and 2005 caused > 150 deaths. In response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization convened a workgroup of international experts and health officials in Geneva, Switzerland, in July 2005. After ...
Strosnider, H.
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Azziz-Baumgartner, E.
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Bänziger, Marianne
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Bhat, R.V.
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Breiman, R.
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Brune, M.
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DeCock, K.
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Dilley, A.
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Groopman, J.
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Hell, K.
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[Public health strategies for reducing aflatoxin exposure in developing countries: workgroup report]
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Public health strategies for reducing aflatoxin exposure in developing countries: workgroup report