Background: Wastewater irrigation for vegetable production is a highly prevalent practice in Addis Ababa and a number of articles have been published on wastewater-irrigated soils and vegetables contaminated with heavy metals. However, to the best of our knowledge, an insight into assessment of h...
Woldetsadik, D.
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Drechsel, Pay
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Keraita, Bernard N.
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Itanna, F.
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Gebrekidan, H.
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[Heavy metal accumulation and health risk assessment in wastewater-irrigated urban vegetable farming sites of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia]
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Heavy metal accumulation and health risk assessment in wastewater-irrigated urban vegetable farming sites of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Drechsel, Pay
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Karg, H.
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Appoh, Richard K.
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Akoto-Danso, Edmund K.
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[Resilience of urban food supply in West Africa]
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Resilience of urban food supply in West Africa
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.
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Brikke, F.
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Vairavamoorthy, Kalanithy
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[Managing change to implement integrated urban water management in African cities]
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Managing change to implement integrated urban water management in African cities
Thirsty and hungry cities are posing significant challenges for the urban-rural interface ranging from food security to inter-sectoral water allocation. Not only is the supply of resources to urban centres a growing challenge in low-income countries, but even more is the urban return flow, as inv...
Drechsel, Pay
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Keraita, Bernard N.
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[Agriculture in the rural-urban continuum: a CGIAR research perspective]
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Agriculture in the rural-urban continuum: a CGIAR research perspective
Good access to resources and opportunities is essential for sustainable development. Improving access, especially in rural areas, requires useful measures of current access to the locations where these resources and opportunities are found. Recent work has developed a global map of travel times t...
Nelson, Andy
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Weiss, Daniel J.
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Etten, Jacob van
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Cattaneo, Andrea
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McMenomy, Teresa S.
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Koo, Jawoo
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[A suite of global accessibility indicators]
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A suite of global accessibility indicators
This paper aims at analyzing fuel consumption in households of forest zones, and at showing the place of fuelwood as a source of energy in the region. The study was carried out in Cameroon and it was based on a survey done in 1996. A sample of 400 households from Yaounde, Mbalmayo and Ebolowa was...
Nkamleu, G.B.
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Endamana, D.
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Gockowski, J.
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Ndoye, O.
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Sunderlin, William D.
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[Analyse economique de la consommation du bois de feu en regions forestieres: lecons des zones urbaines camerounaises]
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Analyse economique de la consommation du bois de feu en regions forestieres: lecons des zones urbaines camerounaises
Mapani, B.
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Magole, L.
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Makurira, H.
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Mazvimavi, D.
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Meck, M.
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Mul, Marloes L.
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[Managing ground and surface water resources using innovative methods in rural and urban areas of Sub-Saharan Africa]
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Managing ground and surface water resources using innovative methods in rural and urban areas of Sub-Saharan Africa
A cross-sectional study of bovine brucellosis was carried out from May to October 1997 on 42 dairy farms located in Addis Ababa, Sebeta, Kaliti and Debre Zeit, Ethiopia. An overall herd infection rate of 33.3 percent was established. With respect to the production systems, 100 percent, 30 percent...
Asfaw, Y.
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Molla, B.
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Zessin, K.H.
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Tegegne, Azage
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[A cross-sectional study of bovine brucellosis and test performance in intra-and peri-urban production systems in and around Addis Ababa, Ethiopia]
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A cross-sectional study of bovine brucellosis and test performance in intra-and peri-urban production systems in and around Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Urban and peri-urban dairy production systems are among the many forms of dairy production systems in the tropics and sub-tropics. The systems involve the production, processing and marketing of milk and milk products that are channelled to consumers in urban centres (Rey et al., 1993; Staal and ...
Tegegne, Azage
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Tadesse, M.
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Yami, A.
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Mekasha, Yoseph
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[Market-oriented urban and peri-urban dairy systems]
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Market-oriented urban and peri-urban dairy systems