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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2002
    Chad, Africa, Middle Africa

    The health of nomadic pastoralists is influenced by factors specific to their way of life.
    Nomadic pastoralists depend on their livestock for subsistence, especially on the livestock’s
    milk. Veterinary services provide vaccination against feared livestock diseases such as
    anthrax. Agents transmissible between livestock and humans (zoonotic agents) may have an
    important impact on the health status of pastoralists because they live in close contact to their
    animals. However, morbidity of nomadic pastoralists in Chad had not been documented and

  2. Library Resource
    National Policies
    January, 2003
    Rwanda

    The protection and management of environment are among the pillars of Vision 2020. The objective of the Government is that by 2020, it will have built a nation in which pressure on natural resources, particularly on land, water, biomass and biodiversity, has significantly been reduced and the process of environmental pollution and degradation has been reversed; a nation in which the management and protection of these resources and environment are more rational and well regulated in order to preserve and bequeath to future generations the basic wealth necessary for sustainable development.

  3. Library Resource
    Legislation
    February, 2002
    China

    This Act is enacted for the purposes of regulating expropriation of land, ensuring reasonable land use, safeguarding private properties and promoting public interest.

  4. Library Resource
    Training Resources & Tools
    December, 2002
    Chad, Nigeria, Cameroon, Africa, Middle Africa, Western Africa

    The Kuri cattle breed is found on the shores and islands of Lake Chad. Its main habitat is in southern Chad and north-eastern Nigeria but the breed is also found in northern Cameroon, in Niger and, to a limited extent, in the Central African Republic. The Kuri are also known as the Baharie, Bare, Borrie, Boudouma, Dongolé, Koubouri, Buduma or White Lake Chad. The importance of the Kuri lies not only in its unique physical characteristics but also in its meat and milk production potentials. The breed is so acclimatised to the environs of Lake Chad that it is unable to survive elsewhere.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2002

    Improved understandings of the agricultural and range ecologies of semi-arid Africa require better information on the spatiotemporal distribution of domestic livestock across agropastoral landscapes. An empirical GIS-based approach was developed for estimating distributions of herded livestock across three agropastoral territories (around 100 km2 each) over a two-year period.

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