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Journal articlesSCIENCE CURRICULUM SECONDARY EDUCATION INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE TRADITIONAL MEDICINE SOCIAL NORMS CULTURAL FACTORS NATURAL PRODUCTS RURAL AREAS RESEARCH METHODS ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTHPublished dateMonday, January 2, 2006 - 00:00
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Malaria in Africa ecohealth projects : evaluation report; documenting outputs, outcomes and learning from ecohealth projects - communicable diseases
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Journal articlesSECONDARY EDUCATION CURRICULUM INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE TRADITIONAL MEDICINE BIOLOGY Health NATURAL PRODUCTS RURAL AREAS RESEARCH METHODS WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SOCIAL ASPECTS CULTURAL FACTORS
Inquiry into the integration of indigenous knowledges and skills in the Kenyan secondary science curriculum : a case of human health knowledge
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Journal articlesClimate change RAINFALL VARIABILITY SMALLHOLDERS AGRICULTURAL INNOVATIONS
Climate variability and change : farmer perceptions and understanding of intra-seasonal variability in rainfall and associated risk in semi-arid Kenya
This study examines farmers’ perceptions of short- and long-term variability in climate, their ability to discern trends in climate and how the perceived trends converge with actual weather observations in five districts of Eastern Province in Ken
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Journal articlesMALARIA FORECASTING TECHNIQUES CLIMATE SENSITIVE DISEASES EPIDEMIOLOGY MATHEMATICAL MODELS ECOSYSTEMS DISEASE VECTORS
Development and validation of climate and ecosystem-based early malaria epidemic prediction models in East Africa
Process-based models were constructed for computing the risk of malaria epidemic using temperature and rainfall data. The model has a lead-time of two to four months between detection of the epidemic signal and evolution of the epidemic.
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Journal articlesPASTORALISTS Policy RESILIENCE Poverty
Applying resilience thinking to questions of policy for pastoralist systems : lessons from the Gabra of Northern Kenya
The aim of this paper is to explore the relevance
of a systematic application of resilience thinking to
questions of pastoralist policy, a task that requires taking
the concept of resilience beyond the level of a metaphorPublished dateSaturday, January 2, 2010 - 05:00 -
Journal articlesBiodiversity DNA BARCODING SPECIES IDENTIFICATION INTERNATIONAL BARCODE OF LIFE (iBOL) DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Thirty-five-million dollar boost for 'Barcode of Life'
The International Barcode of Life (iBOL) project, received a funding boost of $35 million from Canadian agencies for a 26-nation effort to collect specimens, sequence their DNA, and build an informatics platform using digital bar codes to store an
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Journal articlesBiodiversity DNA BARCODING SPECIES IDENTIFICATION INTERNATIONAL BARCODE OF LIFE (iBOL) DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Barcode of Life Project expects $35M in new support
The Canada-led International Barcode of Life (iBOL) project has received new pledges from its major supporters, raising totals from these funders to $80 million.
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Journal articlesBiodiversity DNA BARCODING SPECIES IDENTIFICATION INTERNATIONAL BARCODE OF LIFE (iBOL)
International Barcode of Life Project gets $8.1 million
Researchers are quickly amassing barcodes or identifiers for a database of life forms, and developing new informatics tools and technologies.
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Journal articlesClimate change RAINFALL VARIABILITY METEOROLOGY WEATHER FORECASTS SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS WATER SUPPLY MAIZE
Adding value to field-based agronomic research through climate risk assessment : a case study of maize production in Kitale, Kenya
Given the need for information on climate-induced risk and the availability of well-tested crop growth simulation models and spatial weather generators, the objectives of this study are to demonstrate the value of such tools as APSIM (Agricultural
Published dateSunday, January 2, 2011 - 05:00