1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND Women in Sub-Saharan Africa including Zambia, constitute the majority of people living in rural areas. They provide over 70% of all agricultural labour required especially in food production done mainly at subsistence level (WLSA, 2001 p 16). Further studies have shown that over 60% of the active populations in Sub-Saharan Africa depend on land for livelihood (EC...

Malaria is a major public health challenge in Ghana and adversely affects the productivity and economy of the country. Although malaria is climate driven, there are limited studies linking climate variability and disease transmission across the various agro-ecological zones in Ghana. We used the VECTRI (vector-borne disease community model of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Tr...

Paratuberculosis (Johne’s disease) is an OIE listed notifi able economically important contagious mycobacterial disease of ruminants caused by Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis. The present study reports the seroprevalence of paratuberculosis in bovines of the rural area from fi ve different agro-climatic zone of Punjab. A total of 736 serum samples from both cattle and buffalo he...

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The Ebinur Lake Basin is an important ecological area in China. sustainable development of the basin imperative, particularly coupling and coordination between agro-ecological environment economy. Six counties were studied CRITIC—the entropy weight method used construction regional agro-ecosystem economic evaluation index systems for 2001–2021. to evaluate analyze systems. results indicate that...

optimal use of lands heavily relies on careful assessment of agro-ecological resources. the present study was aimed to zoning of suitable areas for of soybean cropping in qaresoo basin of golestan province by geographical information system (gis) and analytical hierarchy process (ahp). in this study, environmental components included: minimum, average, maximum temperatures, precipitation, slope...

this research was conducted to zoning of gorgan agricultural lands for hulless barley cropping using evaluation of some environmental factors base on boolean logic and by geographic information system. for this purpose, agro-ecological requirements of hulless barley firstly, identified according to scientific resources. rating and thematic requirement maps were then provided. studied environmen...

Production functions to explain regional wheat yields have not been studied extensively in the Canadian prairies. The objective of this study is to employ a Just-Pope production function to examine the relationship between fertilizer inputs, soil quality, biodiversity indicators, cultivars qualifying for Plant Breeders’ Rights (PBR), and climatic conditions on the mean and variance of spring wh...

Neutral landscape models are not frequently used in the agronomical domain, whereas they would be very useful for studying given agro-ecological or physical processes. Contrary to ecological neutral landscape models, agricultural models have to represent and manage geometrical patches and thus should rely on tessellation methods. We present a three steps approach that aimed at simulating such l...