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The study evaluates the ex-post impact of input and output market development interventions on total household net income, intensity of input use and productivity, marketed surplus and market orientation behavior of the households. Moreover, the study has assessed the change in the institutional ...

Salmonella is pathogen of many mammalian species and it is one of the most important bacteria that cause food borne illness worldwide. Salmonella spp. can be commonly found in raw poultry and meat. Eggs, agricultural products, processed foods, raw milk and raw milk products and contaminated water...

This thesis was carried out within the project ImGoats, a project led by ILRI and implemented by CARE in Mozambique, aiming at increasing the incomes and food security of poor smallholders through innovations in the meat goat value chain. From a bottom-up approach, the project developed different...

L'objectif de cette étude était d'évaluer le risque de brucellose lié à la consommation du lait frais associé à différentes pratiques d'hygiène dans le secteur de la production laitière dans la commune rurale de Cinzana. Une étude transversale a été menée dans 12 villages de la commune rurale de ...

The study was carried out in three abattoirs supplying meat to butcheries in Nairobi, and its environs. The objectives of the study were to assess the level of contamination of carcasses with E. coli O157:H7 in the slaughterhouses, determine the critical control points and train the slaughterhous...

In this study, factors affecting farm level marketable supply of cotton were analyzed using Robust OLS regression analysis. The results obtained from this analysis indicated that number of oxen owned by household, land allocated for cotton in hectare, the productivity of cotton per hectare, and a...

Soil erosion forms one of the main causes of land degradation in third world countries. The subject of this research was the inuence of land use and land use change on soil erosion in the upper Genale catchment, Southern Ethiopia. A land use classification was implemented for Landsat satellite im...

Research was done in the upper part of the Genale River basin in the Sidama Zone, Ethiopia. The research focussed on answering the question whether coffee-based agroforestry could ve an impact on the local hydrology. Discharge data, land use data and soil data was collected in the field and from...

The study was conducted from December to April 2007/ 2008 in Hashim’s Ethiopian Livestock and Meat Export (HELIMEX) abattoir at Debre Zeit, Luna and Modjo modern export abattoirs at modjo. The aim of this study was to identify and determine the major diseases of organ and carcass condemnation and...