The Improved Boer Goat is a remarkable small-stock ruminant that possesses distinctive qualities enabling it to excel as an efficient red meat producer. It is early maturing, reaching a mean maximum weight of approximately 62kg at 3.5 years of age on natural pasture under extensive grazing conditions. It boasts high fecundity, with approximately 2.09 kids born per doe kidded. A relatively large...

Grasslands are an important component of rangelands. The work presented in this paper is based on spatial statistical analysis grassland change between 1995 and 2010 using land use cover maps covering the whole mainland Tanzania GIS. Further arguments for discussion sourced from literature review. Results show that grasslands lost at alarming rate almost 1 million hectares annually. Between mor...

Abstract The ongoing fragmentation of pastoral drylands is a matter concern throughout Africa. Using the example rangelands in northern Baringo County, Kenya, that were under uniform use until late twentieth century, we trace land-use and land-cover changes (LULCCs) since 1980s. Based on ethnographic, historical, remote sensing data, show how bush encroachment dryland farming have led to increa...

Encroachment of woody plants into grasslands has generated considerable interest among ecologists. Syntheses of encroachment effects on ecosystem processes have been limited in extent and confined largely to pastoral land uses or particular geographical regions. We used univariate analyses, meta-analysis and structural equation modelling to test the propositions that (1) shrub encroachment does...

The learning difficulties of Down Syndrome students are often related to limitation of their short term memory. They have constraints in separating the information received by the brain. This leads to difficulties in reading process. Therefore, they fail to focus when learning. Scaffolding is a systematic assistance used to ease the burden of the short term memory of the Down Syndrome students....