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This paper discusses past and present approaches to managing tsetse-transmitted animal trypanosomosis in Africa and describes the three main weaknesses of these approaches, i.e., inappropriate objectives, inadequate links between research and policy-making and a lack of recognition that trypano...


Omamo, S.W.D'Ieteren, G.D.M.[Managing animal trypanosomosis in Africa: Issues and options]Managing animal trypanosomosis in Africa: Issues and options

Examines the role and importance of the livestock subsector of Africas' agricultural sector, its performance over the last two decades, the constraints which limit its development and the progress being made in solving theese constraints.


Anteneh, A.Anteneh, B.[Policy, finance and technology in livestock development in sub-Saharan Africa: Some critical issues]Policy, finance and technology in livestock development in sub-Saharan Africa: Some critical issues
Autor: Mbogoh, S.G.

The major concern of this study was to assess the relative efficiency of alternative marketing systems for dairy products. A number of partial efficiency criteria were developed. These partial efficiency criteria formed the basis from which the merit and demerits of the alternative marketing syst...


Mbogoh, S.G.[The concept of marketing efficiency, applications and policy implications: A case of dairy marketing in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia]The concept of marketing efficiency, applications and policy implications: A case of dairy marketing in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Kang'ethe, Erastus K.Grace, DeliaRandolph, Thomas F.[Overview on urban and peri-urban agriculture: Definition, impact on human health, constraints and policy issues]Overview on urban and peri-urban agriculture: Definition, impact on human health, constraints and policy issues
Autor: Drucker, A.G.

Building on the extensive theoretical and empirical work regarding the cost-minimizing properties of economic instruments, this article describes and analyses the Mexican legislation relevant to the treatment/disposal of pig slurry in the state of Yucatan. Using a linear programming model to dete...


Drucker, A.G.[Getting incentives right? a comparative analysis of policy instruments for livestock waste pollution abatement in Yucatan, Mexico]Getting incentives right? a comparative analysis of policy instruments for livestock waste pollution abatement in Yucatan, Mexico

A major challenge for contemporary conservation policies and practices is formulating workable compromises between wildlife conservation and the people who live with wildlife. We strongly support the view that anthropology has a critical role to play in contributing to our understanding of human-...


Galvin, K.A.Thornton, Philip K.Pinho, J.R. deSunderland, J.Boone, Randall B.[Integrated modeling and its potential for resolving conflicts between conservation and people in the rangelands of East Africa]Integrated modeling and its potential for resolving conflicts between conservation and people in the rangelands of East Africa

This paper reports results of a study aimed at identifying broad demand-side and supply-side influences on trade in inorganic fertilizers in Kenya, where, following decades of government control, the fertilizer market has been fully liberalized. Multiple regression analysis using data from a coun...


Omamo, S.W.Mose, L.O.[Fertilizer trade under market liberalizations: Preliminary evidence from Kenya]Fertilizer trade under market liberalizations: Preliminary evidence from Kenya

In Ethiopia smallholder livestock producers have adopted components of improved dairy technologies but the intensity of adoption remains low. It is hypothesized that credit-related constraints limit the ability of many smallholder farmers to make investments in crossbred cows and/or to purchase c...


Freeman, H.A.Jabbar, M.A.Ehui, Simeon K.Gebreselassie, N.[The role of credit in the uptake of improved dairy technologies in Ethiopia]The role of credit in the uptake of improved dairy technologies in Ethiopia

Liberalisation in the dairy industry in Kenya is currently under way in several forms. The urban milk market monopoly of the Kenya Co-operative Creameries has been lifted. Clinical veterinary and artificial insemination (AI) services are no longer publicly supported in many areas. Private sector ...


Owango, M.O.Lukuyu, Ben A.Staal, Steven J.Kenyanjui, M.Njubi, D.Thorpe, W.R.[Dairy co-operatives and policy reform in Kenya: Effects of livestock service and milk market liberalisation]Dairy co-operatives and policy reform in Kenya: Effects of livestock service and milk market liberalisation
Sutherland, W.J.Adams, W.M.Aronson, R.B.Aveling, R.Blackburn, T.M.Broad, S.Ceballos, GermánCote, I.M.Cowling, R.M.Fonseca, G.A.B. daDinerstein, E.Ferraro, P.J.Fleishman, E.Gascon, C.Hunter, M.Hutton, JKareiva, P.Kuria, A.Macdonald, D.W.Mackinnon, K.Madgwick, F.J.Mascia, M.B.McNeely, J.Milner-Gulland, E.J.Moon, S.Morley, C.G.Nelson, S.Osborn, D.Pai, M.Parsons, E.C.M.Peck, L.S.Possingham, H.Prior, S. V.Pullin, A. S.Rands, M. R. W.Ranganathan, J.Redford, K.H.Rodríguez, J.P.Seymour, F.Sobel, J.Sodhi, N.S.Stott, A.Vance-Borland, K.Watkinson, A.R.[One hundred questions of importance to the conservation of global biological diversity]One hundred questions of importance to the conservation of global biological diversity

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