Public agriculture R&D investments
Journal Articles & Books
Diciembre, 2013
Eastern Africa
Book chapter
Livestock and mixed crop-livestock systems
Journal Articles & Books
Diciembre, 2013
Eastern Africa
Book chapter
Rainfall and rainfall variability
Journal Articles & Books
Diciembre, 2013
Eastern Africa
Book chapter
Benefits of Trypanosomosis control in the Horn of Africa
Journal Articles & Books
Diciembre, 2013
Eastern Africa
Using the Horn of Africa as an example, the maps illustrate different steps in a methodology developed to estimate and map the economic benefits to livestock keepers of controlling a disease (Shaw et al. 2014). Cattle are first assigned to different production systems as shown in Map 1, illustrating for example, where mixed farming is heavily dependent on the use of draft oxen in Ethiopia, areas of Sudan and South Sudan where oxen use is much lower, and the strictly pastoral areas of Somalia and Kenya.
Climate zones for crop management
Journal Articles & Books
Diciembre, 2013
Eastern Africa
Book chapter
Agroecological zones
Journal Articles & Books
Diciembre, 2013
Eastern Africa
Agroecological zones (AEZs) are geographical areas exhibiting similar climatic conditions that determine their ability to support rainfed agriculture. At a regional scale, AEZs are influenced by latitude, elevation, and temperature, as well as seasonality, and rainfall amounts and distribution during the growing season.