Tropical Grasslands – Forrajes Tropicales
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Persistence of Rift Valley fever virus in East Africa
Rift Valley fever virus (RVFv) is a mosquito-borne pathogen of livestock, wildlife and humans that causes severe outbreaks in intervals of several years. One of the open questions is how the virus persists between outbreaks. We developed a spatially-explicit, individual-based simulation model of the RVFv transmission dynamics to investigate this qu...
Sustainable management of banana bacterial wilt in East and Central Africa
Peer Review
Endophyte-enhanced tissue culture banana in East Africa: a novel way to combat soil-borne banana pests
Peer Review
East Africa Dairy Development News No. 3
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Couples' communication on sexual and relational issues among the Akamba in Kenya.
...Published in African journal of AIDS research : AJAR
A large portion of HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa occurs among married couples, yet the majority of research on safer-sex communication has focused on communication between couples in casual relationships. This paper explores how committed Kamba couples in Machakos District, Kenya, communicate about sensitive relational issues. The findings...
Geoforum
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The questions of how land use change affects climate, and how climate change affects land use, require examination of societal and environmental systems across space at multiple scales, from the global climate to regional vegetative dynamics to local decision making by farmers and herders. It also requires an analysis of causal linkages and feedbac...
Development and Change
Understanding and alleviating poverty in Africa continues to receive considerable attention by a range of diverse actors, including politicians, international celebrities, academics, activists, and practitioners. Despite the onslaught of interest, there surprisingly is little agreement on what constitutes poverty in rural Africa, how it should be a...
Modeling future land use, regional climate, and maize yields in East Africa
Vulnerability to HIV infection among Luo female adolescent orphans in Western Kenya.
Published in African journal of AIDS research : AJAR
Large-scale surveys have reported that about 55% of orphans worldwide are adolescents. In Kenya, the majority of HIV-infected adolescents are females. The current study used the anthropological methods of in-depth case studies to analyse how migratory life situations of individual female adolescent orphans in the Luo community of Western Kenya may ...
