semi-arid lands
A comparative analysis of rural household food security in the high rainfall zone of Murang’a, semi – arid lands of Kitui and arid lands of Isiolo in Kenya
... (FEWS NET, 2012) reported over 10 million people to suffer from chronic food insecurity and poor nutrition in 2012 which is about one third of the 39 million people in Kenya reported to suffer from chronic food and ...
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NUTRITIVE EVALUATION OF SOME BROWSE TREES FRUITS (SEED AND PODS) AS DRY SEASON SUPPLEMENT FOR LIVESTOCK IN ARID AND SEMI-ARID LANDS OF SUDAN
... In many parts of the tropics, arid and semi-arid lands constitute a large proportion of the area. Inadequacy of livestock feed in the dry season, particularly lack of protein, is a major ...
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Magnitudes of Climate Variability and Changes over the Arid and Semi Arid Lands of Kenya between 1961 and 2013 Period
... the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) of Kenya using in-situ measurements and gridded climate proxy datasets, and analysed using the Gaussian-Kernel analysis and the Mann-Kendall ...
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Traditional farmers' coping mechanisms with rainfall variability in semi arid lands: A study from Sudan
... different communities especially those along the southern margins of the Sahara in Darfur and Kordofan. According to some estimates 3.3 million people accounting for 15.7% of the country’s total population were severely ...
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Rainfall Variability and Its Impact on Normalized Difference Vegetation Index in Arid and Semi Arid Lands of Kenya
... in arid and semi-arid lands is based on the exten- sive research agenda in the 1980s and 1990s in arid re- gions that demonstrated the significant correlation be- tween NDVI and ...
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The Effects of Capital Assets on Livelihood-Based Outcomes from Livestock Production among Youth in the Semi-Arid Lands of Kenya
... The purpose of this study was to analyse the effects of capital assets on livelihood-based outcomes from livestock production among youth in the Semi-Arid Lands of Kenya. The Sustainable Livelihoods ...
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Long-term observed Precipitation Trends in Arid and Semi-arid Lands, Baringo County, Kenya
... The arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) are hardest hit by the above-mentioned ...in arid and semi-arid areas of Sub-Saharan Africa is managing unreliable rainfall (Tumbo et ...
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A probabilistic model for predicting seasonal rainfall in semi- arid lands of northeast Brazil
... Abstract In most of the northeast region of Brazil rainfall is relatively low, presenting significant inter-annual fluctuations, especially when compared to rainfall in other areas of Brazil. Moreover, evaporative rates ...
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Agave proves to be a low recalcitrant lignocellulosic feedstock for biofuels production on semi-arid lands
... low cell wall recalcitrance, in other words, agave has a po- tential of high sugar release following pretreatment and/or enzymatic hydrolysis. However, although overcoming bio- mass recalcitrance is the primary roadblock ...
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Combination of Fuzzy and AHP methods to assess land suitability for barley: Case Study of semi arid lands in the southwest of Iran
... The land suitability model was constructed using GIS and modelling functions. In order to classify the lands, a parametric method was used (Sys et al., 1991). In the parametric method land and climate ...
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Effect of Integrating Tied ridging, Fertilizers and Cropping Systems on Maize Performance’ in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands of Eastern Kenya
... The combination of tied ridges, flat bed, farm yard manure, nitrogen fertilizer, maize mono crop and maize cow pea intercrop resulted to increased maize vegetative growth and yield components. The use of tied ridging was ...
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The influence of low-cost boarding primary schools on access and retention in arid and semi arid lands: a case of Lomelo division; Turkana county- Kenya
... Muchocho, (2011) notes that students will always like being in school as long as their basic needs are taken care of, in his argument over the role of the school feeding program in enh[r] ...
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The Role of Social Networks as Survival Strategies in Agro-Pastoral Communities in Arid And Semi-Arid Lands in Tanzania
... and Semi-arid areas in central Tanzania are risky environments for those communities whose livelihood depends on natural ...in semi-arid Tanzania are socially bound and help each other in ...
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Genotypic Variation of Green Gram Accessions in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands of Kenya
... Data was recorded on eight quantitative agronomic parameters including plant height, number of days to maturity, number of pods per plant, 100 seeds weight and s[r] ...
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The Estimation of Soil Organic Matter Variation in Arid and Semi Arid Lands Using Remote Sensing Data
... Soil organic matter is a mix component which leads to change soil characte- ristics and affected by land use, climate, vegetation and soil type. That means the productive ability of agriculture will be compromised by ...
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Trends of Extreme Temperature and Rainfall Indices for Arid and Semi Arid Lands of South Eastern Kenya
... There is an increasing trend in the annual count of days with at least 6 consecutive days when Tmax > 90th percentile “warm spell duration index” WSDI, as provided in the example for Kat[r] ...
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Effects of climate variability on maize yield in the arid and semi arid lands of lower eastern Kenya
... the arid and semi arid counties suffer from significant climate variability which has huge implications on maize yields and food security of lower eastern ...
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Modelling sustainability performance to achieve absolute reductions in socio-ecological systems
... For instance, this is a serious concern for areas where the collective impact of small farms (Nunes et al, 2014) leads to desertification of semi-arid lands. Aiming at the redu[r] ...
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What can parents do? parents' aspirations and choices of early childhood education and care in Kenya: a constructivist grounded theory
... LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ASAL Arid and Semi-Arid Lands DICECEs District centres educational for early childhood education ECD Early childhood development ECEC Early childhood education and [r] ...
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Carbon Sequestration and Soil Restoration Potential of Grazing Lands under Exclosure Management in a Semi-Arid Environment of Northern Ethiopia
... exclosure compared to the five years of grazing exclosures and open grazing lands in our study. This 332[r] ...
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