نتایج جستجو برای: urban and peri urban uganda

تعداد نتایج: 16869328  

2013
Issack Mohamed Noor Abdi Yakub Guliye Muhammad Tariq Bockline Omedo Bebe

Pastoral camel management practices in Kenya, characterised by free herd mobility that enables efficient utilisation of rangeland resources, is progressively restricted to foraging within the vicinity of urban milk market outlets. The emerging peri-urban camel production system (PUCPS) has potential livelihood benefits to households, but adapting herd management practices responsive to market d...

2013
Sara A. Abuelmaali Arwa H. Elaagip Mohammed A. Basheer Ehab A. Frah Fayez T. A. Ahmed Hassabelrasoul F. A. Elhaj Osama M. E. Seidahmed David Weetman Muzamil Mahdi Abdel Hamid

BACKGROUND Agricultural pesticides may play a profound role in selection of resistance in field populations of mosquito vectors. The objective of this study is to investigate possible links between agricultural pesticide use and development of resistance to insecticides by the major malaria vector Anopheles arabiensis in northern Sudan. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Entomological surveys wer...

2017
Gamuchirai Chakona Charlie Shackleton

The lack of dietary diversity is a severe problem experienced by most poor households globally. In particular; women of reproductive age (WRA) are at high risk of inadequate intake of micronutrients resulting from diets dominated by starchy staples. The present study considered the diets, dietary diversity, and food security of women aged 15-49 years along the rural-urban continuum in three Sou...

2008
Marco Betti

This paper reflects the existing management systems practiced in various areas of Nepal in managing solid waste and contains initiatives of municipalities; national and local NGOs/CBOs; public and private entities. This paper helps to transfer the lessons and existing practices regarding soild waste managment and encourages urban, peri urban and emerging towns for similar initiatives in urban s...

2011
Kohei Makita Eric M Fèvre Charles Waiswa Mark C Eisler Michael Thrusfield Susan C Welburn

BACKGROUND Human brucellosis has been found to be prevalent in the urban areas of Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. A cross-sectional study was designed to generate precise information on the prevalence of brucellosis in cattle and risk factors for the disease in its urban and peri-urban dairy farming systems. RESULTS The adjusted herd prevalence of brucellosis was 6.5% (11/177, 95% CI: 3....

2018
Andres Moreira-Soto Ianei de Oliveira Carneiro Carlo Fischer Marie Feldmann Beate M. Kümmerer Nama Santos Silva Uilton Góes Santos Breno Frederico de Carvalho Dominguez Souza Fernanda de Azevedo Liborio Mônica Mafra Valença-Montenegro Plautino de Oliveira Laroque Fernanda Rosa da Fontoura Alberto Vinicius Dantas Oliveira Christian Drosten Xavier de Lamballerie Carlos Roberto Franke Jan Felix Drexler

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and Zika virus (ZIKV) emerged in the Americas in 2013. Limited antigenic variability of CHIKV and ZIKV may restrict urban transmission cycles due to population protective immunity. In Africa, sylvatic transmission cycles involving nonhuman primates (NHP) are known for CHIKV and ZIKV, causing cyclic reemergence in humans. To evaluate whether sylvatic cycles can be expec...

2012
André Mulder

Brent D. Ryan first visited Detroit in 1993. Describing this experience, he says: ‘‘The sense of emptiness was overpowering. ... I felt as if I was walking into the ruin of America.’’ In his book ‘‘Design after decline—how America rebuilds shrinking cities,’’ Ryan tries to understand why so many American cities have been losing population, what was and is done to change the fortune of these cit...

Journal: :Annual Review of Environment and Resources 2008

2011
SHAZIA IRAM IFTIKHAR AHMAD KAINAT NASIR SHAZIA AKHTAR

The micro-fungal flora of heavy metals contaminated peri-urban agricultural fields of Pakistan were investigated in terms of their diversity by soil serial dilution method. A total of 30 micro-fungi were isolated from 6 sampling sites. Of these isolates 24 belong to phylum Ascomycota, 3 to phylum Zygomycota, 2 to phylum Basidiomycota and 1 to phylum Deuteromycota. The most widespread genus was ...

Journal: :Journal of environmental management 2013
Ezekiel N Ndunda Eric D Mungatana

This paper employs the discrete choice experiment method to estimate the benefits of improved wastewater treatment programs to mitigate the impacts of water pollution in Nairobi, Kenya. Urban and peri-urban farmers who use wastewater for irrigation from Motoine to Ngong River in Nairobi were randomly selected for the study. A random parameter logit model was used to estimate the individual leve...

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