Animal feed resources for small-scale livestock producers. Proceedings of the second PANESA workshop
Presents papers on inventory of animal feed resources in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Burundi, Madagascar, Botswana, Swaziland and Mozambique, research and development experiences in Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi and Zimbabwe; socioeconomic aspects of feed resources; and regional/sub-regional research programmes.
Aqueous Productivity: An enhanced productivity indicator for water
Assessment of the effect of season and location on microbiological and physicochemical quality of livestock drinking water in Ginchi watershed, Ethiopia
This study was conducted at Ginchi watershed in Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia to evaluate the
physical, chemical and microbiological quality of livestock drinking waters during dry, short rain and wet
seasons. Purposive sampling technique was used to obtain samples. Data were collected and analyzed using
descriptive statistics. The analysis showed that the overall mean concentrations (mg/l) were 298.33 TDS, 8.0
pH, 15.78 Na, 2.9 K,128.22 CaCO , 40.89 Ca, 6.32 Mg, 0.26 F, 5.38 Cl, 0.03 NO , 5.68 NO , 2.67 CO 146 alkalinity,
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Back to the trees? Diet and health as indicators of adaptive responses to environmental change: the case of the Punan Tubu in the Malinau research forest
BecA-ILRI Hub 2015 annual report: Accelerating research for development impact through partnerships
Better lives through livestock
Can we be engineers of property rights to natural resources? some evidence of difficulties from the rural areas of Zimbabwe
The desire for research to be policy relevant has caused many social science studies to have “engineering” dimensions. With respect to the engineering of property rights, economic approaches indicate that we require knowledge regarding the makeup of current property rights structures, how changes to current structures affect the use and management of natural resources, and how property rights have evolved.