Market and Non-market Factors Influencing Farmers’ Adoption of Improved Beef Cattle in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas of Kenya

Soils of Arid and Semi-arid Areas

Factors Influencing Transient Poverty among Agro-pastoralists in Semi-arid Areas of Kenya

In Africa, many pastoral households are increasingly settling in response to curtailed mobility and shrinking grazing areas. Households in pastoral areas are characterised by few resources, low income, low level of human and social capital, and limited access to markets and service institutions like credit institutions, extension and plant protection. This study was conducted to determine the f...

Simulation of the catchments hydrological processes in arid, semi-arid and semi-humid areas

Hydrological processes and their spatial distribution directly are relevant to climate, topography, geology, and land use in the watershed. Therefore, use of a model whit integrity and high performance for simulating the process in deferent watersheds is very important. In this study was assessment performance of semi-distributed SWAT model in simulating hydrology processes in three watersheds ...

ec adoption and critical success factors of ec in smes in iran

تجارت الکترونیکی شیوه اجرای مسئولیتها، تقابل با مشتریان و امور معمول عملیاتی در شرکتها را تغییر داده است. تجارت الکترونیکی در عمل تنها خرید و فروش کالاها را از طریق ابزار الکترونیک نمی باشد، بلکه تمام فعالیتهای لازم جهت انجام فرایند فروش را نیز در بر میگیرد. در اواخر دهه 1990 بسیاری از شرکتها فعالیتهای خود را به منظور دستیابی به مشتریان جدید و یا ارائه فرصتهای جدید به مشتریان موجود گسترش دادند...

Roadside flora in arid and semi-arid natural areas (Case study: Northern Khorasan province, Iran)

     Roads have an important role in plants dispersal on different scales. Various plant species settle on roadsides, but some of them can enter the natural environments and threaten their biodiversity. Worldwide knowledge of roadside flora is necessary for local and global management of natural areas. Accordingly, the roadside flora of Northern Khorasan rangelands was studied along the 600 km ...