Describing agroecosystems and assessing their sustainability and health has become of great interest to researchers, Development agents and communities. Such assessments are frequently carried out using a group of carefully chosen attributes, known as indicators. This was the approach adopted in ...
Gitau, T.
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McDermott, John J.
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Waltner-Toews, D.
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McDermott, B.
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[Use of correspondence analysis in agroecosystem health and sustainability assessment]
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Use of correspondence analysis in agroecosystem health and sustainability assessment
Animal diseases cause significant economic losses to the livestock sub-sector in sub Saharan Africa (SSA). To minimize these losses, SSA governments have allocated over 70% of total livestock services budgets to disease control and other animal health services. Declining state budgets, however, ...
Tambi, N.E.
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Maina, W.O.
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Randolph, Thomas F.
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[An analysis of the impact of public animal health expenditures on the performance of the livestock sub-sector in Kenya]
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An analysis of the impact of public animal health expenditures on the performance of the livestock sub-sector in Kenya
Food safety standards require monitoring from production-to-consumption. The Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) process, recommended by FAO/WHO, is now a widely accepted methodology in risk analysis for industrially processed foods. HACCP identifies the points in a process that are h...
Mwangi, A.
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Arimi, S.M.
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Mbugua, S.
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Kang'ethe, Erastus K.
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Ouma, Emily A.
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Omore, Amos O.
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McDermott, John J.
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Staal, Steven J.
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[Application of HACCP to improve the safety of informally marketed raw milk in Kenya]
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Application of HACCP to improve the safety of informally marketed raw milk in Kenya
Despite policies to discourage them, informal milk markets account for over 80% of milk sales in most sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Informal milk market agents include farmer dairy co-operatives, small traders using bicycles and public or private transport and small retail outlets, such as...
Omore, Amos O.
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McDermott, John J.
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Staal, Steven J.
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Arimi, S.M.
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Kang'ethe, Erastus K.
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Ouma, Emily A.
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[Analysis of public health risks from consumption of informally marketed milk in sub-Saharan African countries]
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Analysis of public health risks from consumption of informally marketed milk in sub-Saharan African countries
Rift Valley Fever (RVF) is a viral zoonotic insect-borne disease of livestock and human beings caused by a member of the Phlebovirus genus of the family Bunyaviridae. Being first recognised in the Rift Valley of Kenya at the turn of 20th century, several epidemics have occurred in eastern, southe...
Tibbo, Markos
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Workalemahu, A.
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Bonnet, P.
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[Emerging vector borne diseases as public health threats and diseases of trade. The case of Rift Valley fever: a threat to livestock trade and food security in the Horn of Africa]
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Emerging vector borne diseases as public health threats and diseases of trade. The case of Rift Valley fever: a threat to livestock trade and food security in the Horn of Africa
Animal diseases have a major impact on crop-livestock systems in West Africa. The productivity of all crop-livestock systems is limited both by the direct effects of overt disease and by strategies that are adopted to mitigate disease risk. Epidemic diseases require substantial expenditures to li...
McDermott, John J.
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Richard, D.
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Randolph, Thomas F.
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[Incidence of animal diseases and their current and future impacts on crop-livestock systems in West africa]
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Incidence of animal diseases and their current and future impacts on crop-livestock systems in West africa
Tsetse-transmitted trypanosomosis is regarded as the most debilitating livestock disease in sub-Saharan Africa, responsible for annual economic losses of over US$1.3 billion. To date, however, all economic impact assessments of trypanosomosis have excluded the public health burden of the disease....
Odiit, M.
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Coleman, P.G.
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Fèvre, Eric M.
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Magona, J.
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McDermott, John J.
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[Incorporating the burden of human sleeping sickness in an economic impact assessment of trypanosomiasis]
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Incorporating the burden of human sleeping sickness in an economic impact assessment of trypanosomiasis
Globally, more than 60% of the human population live without safely managed sanitation services or even lack access to basic sanitation facilities. In addition, most of the wastewater produced in the world is discharged without proper treatment. Integrated approaches are needed to address these i...
Andersson, K.
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Otoo, Miriam
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Nolasco, M.
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[Innovative sanitation approaches to address multiple development challenges]
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Innovative sanitation approaches to address multiple development challenges
Mateo-Sagasta, Javier
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Drechsel, Pay
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[Improving water quality is an opportunity to avert a global crisis]
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Improving water quality is an opportunity to avert a global crisis
Scarce water resources in developing countries are under pressure from climate change, with droughts and extreme weather events particularly impacting rural communities that depend on farming for their survival. Living on this knife edge means that water resources become ever more precious, with ...