Semi arid Areas
Agro-pastoral Choice of Coping Strategies and Response to Drought in the Semi-arid areas of Uganda
... estimated AUD$ 3.5 billion in 2006 (Mishra et al., 2010). Many Sub-Saharan Africa economies are vulnerable to drought effects due to great economic dependence on rain-fed agriculture and livestock production (Tadesse et ...
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Assessing Rainfall and Temperature Changes in Semi Arid Areas of Tanzania
... This paper examined trends in seasonal variability of rainfall and temperature in Igunga and Kishapu districts. Statistically the temperature showed an increased trend while precipitation was characterized by large ...
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Evaluation of two methods for estimation of evaporation from Dams water in arid and semi arid areas in Algeria
... Evaporation is difficult to measure experimentally over water surfaces; several techniques and models have been suggested and used in the past for its determination. There exists a multitude of methods for the ...
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Acacia: Promising Nitrogen fixing trees for sustainable development in arid and semi-arid areas
... of arid and semi-arid areas by reducing evaporation and creating a shadow that slows the soil drying and provide the setting and coastal sand dunes with their lateral root system that promotes ...
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Seasonal Water Crises and Social Dilemmas in Semi-Arid Areas of the Lake Zone of Tanzania
... The semi-arid areas of the Lake Zone of Tanzania have received little attention on water management issues and the key question is: Will largely unregulated increase in the number of small private ...
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Comparative analysis of diversity and utilization of edible plants in arid and semi-arid areas in Benin
... in arid and semi- arid areas of West Africa needs to be investigated and documented so as to inform policy ...in arid and semi-arid areas [9,10]. In these ...
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Vulnerability of People’s Livelihoods to Water Resources Availability in Semi Arid Areas of Tanzania
... In semi-arid areas of Tanzania vulnerability context is depicted as the starting component for policy process analysis through the sustainable livelihood ...
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Possible effects of changes in the meteorological state over semi-arid areas on the general well-being of weather-sensitive patients
... Inhabitants in transient geographic areas located be- tween a sea basin and huge deserts, as the Israeli South is, are especially sensitive to winds. In our region two dominant air streams bring with them opposite ...
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Psammomys Obesus Diet, Tank of the Cutaneous Leishmaniose, Zoonotic Disease of arid and Semi-arid Areas
... - The set B, gathering the stations (R5, R10, R6, R9, R7, R8), these stations resemble to the saline soil of salty coastal areas. They consist mainly of mixed-halophyte vegetation mixed to Suaeda fruticosa and to ...
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Identification of sap flow driving factors of jujube plantation in semi-arid areas in Northwest China
... contents were associated with greater time lags. The degree of drought resistance in jujube plants was thus determined by the time lag as well as the peak sap flow and the level of sap flow variation. On the hourly ...
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Simulation of the catchments hydrological processes in arid, semi-arid and semi-humid areas
... in arid and semi- arid areas in Iran and due to the increasing use of this model and importance of generated runoff in arid and semi-arid areas, the simulation of ...
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Assessment of spatial distributions of some climate indices in Iraq
... and arid areas to be drier (Ma et ...The arid and semi-arid areas involve right around 40% of the earth's property ...population arid area like affecting on agriculture ...
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Livestock redistribute runoff and sediments in semi-arid rangeland areas
... in semi-arid areas, ...route areas of the upper ...intershrub areas nec- essary in all climatic regions and in all soils? What shape of shrub canopy or root density distribution will ...
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Effects of antecedent soil moisture on runoff modeling in small semiarid watersheds of southeastern Arizona
... in arid/semi-arid areas, the objectives of this study were: (1) to examine the sensitivity of the measured runoff to rainfall ratio to measured antecedent soil water con- tent, (2) to analyze ...
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The Effect of Shelterbelts on Ecosystem Stabilization and Improvement of Local Communities Livelihood
... the areas are susceptible to desert encroachment, together with the quick fast increase in population in rural ...in semi-arid zones. Decades ago semi-arid areas, as stated by ...
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Mapping the suitability of groundwater dependent vegetation in a semi arid Mediterranean area
... xeric semi-arid areas (Abad Vinas et ...to areas of undifferentiated geological type can be weakened by a complex nonlinear interaction between to- pography, aridity and subsurface ...
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Chemical composition and antifungal activity of essential oil of Anethum graveolens L from South western Algeria (Bechar)
... Laboratory of Plant Resource Development and food Security in Semi-Arid Areas, South West of Algeria, University of Tahri Mohamed, Bechar, Algeria b Laboratory of Bioconversion, Microbio[r] ...
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PRELIMINARY ASSESSESMENT ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH IMPLICATION OF CAMEL TUBERCULOSIS IN PASTORAL AREA OF ETHIOPIA
... Pastoral production system accounts for the livelihood of 50–100 million people in developing countries and 60% of this population lives in more than 21 African countries confined to the most arid and ...
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The Role of Social Networks as Survival Strategies in Agro-Pastoral Communities in Arid And Semi-Arid Lands in Tanzania
... The semi-arid areas of Tanzania are characterized by highly variable rainfall (Yanda et ...in semi-arid Tanzania provide examples of how social protection mechanisms, especially social ...
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Performance Enhancement of Solar Photovoltaic Panels using Air-water Mixture and Sustainable Solutions to Off-Grid Electrification
... Solar energy is an abundant energy resource available on the earth. Solar energy can be captured in the form of heat to produce electricity (Concentrated Solar Power Plant) or direct conversion of solar energy to ...
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