Poor livestock keepers: ecosystem–poverty–health interactions

Poor livestock keepers: ecosystem–poverty–health interactions

Humans have never been healthier, wealthier or more numerous. Yet, present success may be at the cost of future prosperity and in some places, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, poverty persists. Livestock keepers, especially pastoralists, are over-represented among the poor. Poverty has been mainly attributed to a lack of access, whether to goods, education or enabling institutions. More recent...

Crop - Livestock Interactions

‘ Responsible Companies ’ and African Livestock - Keepers : Acting , Teaching but Not Learning

There is some evidence that companies, both multinational and African, operating from motivations that can be very broadly labelled "Corporate Social Responsibility", can make real and significant contributions to pastoral development and that useful development dialogues can be held with them. But three case studies, from Uganda, Ethiopia and Senegal, also suggest that companies operating in "...

Boundary Keepers Takers

Time keepers abound

Time keepers abound very cell in the body has its own little clock, according to Emi Nagoshi, Ueli Schibler (University of Geneva, Switzerland), and colleagues. These peripheral clocks may be closely related to the body’s central clock—the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). Neurons of the SCN maintain circadian gene expression for long periods of time. Other cells, however, were thought to rely on ...