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Spatial Distribution and Trend of Informal Settlements Based on Multi-Source Open Data

Redai dili
Informal settlements generally refer to low-quality residential areas built without government permission and characterized by poverty and insufficient basic services.
Zhu Jingyi, Chen Shuang
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Rebuilding the Ladder? Contemporary Contests Over Industrial Policy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does the greater embrace of industrial policy globally signal the emergence of a New Washington Consensus? We show that the multiplication of industrial policies, while consequential, signals neither normalisation nor consensus. Rather, industrial policy is increasingly the object of contestation over norms and practices of state ...
Ilias Alami, Jack Taggart, Tom Chodor
wiley   +1 more source

Fluid authorities: Exploring hydraulic social contracts in Nairobi’s water provision

Water Alternatives
This paper aims to expand our understanding of the diverse relationships in water provision in cities such as Nairobi, where urban water is provided through heterogeneous actors and through piped and non-piped systems.
Maja Dahl Jeppesen
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Crecimiento y desarrollo urbano de Nairobi

Estudios de Asia y África, 1993
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Marcela Taraborelli de Antonini
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Comparative Efficiency for in vitro Transfection of Goat Undifferentiated Spermatogonia Using Lipofectamine Reagents and Electroporation

Stem Cells and Cloning: Advances and Applications, 2022
Wilkister Nabulindo Nakami,1– 3 James Nguhiu-Mwangi,2 Ambrose Ng’eno Kipyegon,2 Moses Ogugo,1,3 Charity Muteti,1,3 Stephen Kemp1,3 1Livestock Genetics, International Livestock Research Institute, ILRI, Nairobi, Kenya; 2Department of Clinical Studies ...
Nakami WN, Nguhiu-Mwangi J, Kipyegon AN, Ogugo M, Muteti C, Kemp S   +5 more
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Evaluating large‐scale government investments in fertilizer adoption: The Ethiopian experience

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We evaluate the impact of a large Government of Ethiopia intervention to raise fertilizer supply by establishing five fertilizer blending facilities supplying fertilizers tailored to local soil nutrient profiles. We rely on the phased geographic rollout of blending facility establishment to identify the causal effect on fertilizer use ...
Thomas Assefa, Ellen McCullough, Guush Berhane   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Potential effects of urbanization on urban thermal comfort, a case study of Nairobi city, Kenya: A review [PDF]

Geographica Pannonica, 2016
This study reviews the effect of urbanization on human thermal comfort over Nairobi city in Kenya. Urbanization alters urban center's land use and land cover, modifying the climate of the urban setting.
Ongoma Victor, Muange Kalondu Pamela, Zablon Weku Shilenje   +2 more
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Rural land rental markets in developing countries: Can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics?

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract A longstanding puzzle in the African land rental market literature is the often‐observed discrepancy between the number of tenants (renters‐in) and the much smaller number of landlords (renters‐out) in survey data. If this discrepancy derives from systematic biases in survey data responses on rental market participation, then the existing body
Gashaw T. Abate, Kibrom A. Abay, Jordan Chamberlin, Samuel Sebsibie   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

InterVA versus Spectrum: how comparable are they in estimating AIDS mortality patterns in Nairobi’s informal settlements?

Global Health Action, 2013
Background: The Spectrum computer package is used to generate national AIDS mortality estimates in settings where vital registration systems are lacking.
Samuel Oji Oti, Marilyn Wamukoya, Mary Mahy, Catherine Kyobutungi   +3 more
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Information flow and the adoption of soil‐improving and water conservation measures, and household welfare: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Uganda

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Extension services are designed to facilitate the flow of information from researchers to farmers. However, information failures continue to impede the diffusion of soil‐improving and water conservation technologies in Sub‐Saharan African countries. We use a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to examine the impact of an extension‐based campaign
Esther Gloria Mbabazi, Awudu Abdulai, Enoch M. Kikulwe, Elisabetta Gotor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source