Search Results - "census"

Sleeping sickness in Uganda: revisiting current and historical distributions by Berrang-Ford, L., Odiit, M., Maiso, F., Waltner-Toews, D., McDermott, John J.

“…Objectives: This paper compares the spatial distributions of sleeping in Uganda for the 1900-1920 outbreak period with current disease foci, and discusses information gaps and implications arising for future research, prevention and control. Methods: Population census records for 1911 and sleeping sickness records from Medical and Sanitary Reports of the Ugandan Protectorate for 1905-1936 were extracted from the Uganda Archives. …”
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Correlates of survival rates for 10 African ungulate populations: density, rainfall and predation by Owen-Smith, N., Mason, D.R., Ogutu, J.

“…Through reconciling census totals with population structure, annual survival rates were estimated for the juvenile, yearling and adult stages of 10 ungulate species over 14 years or longer in South Africa's Kruger National Park. …”
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A participatory ecohealth study of smallholder pig system in upland and lowland of Lao PDR by Inthavong, Phouth, Durr, P.A., Khamlome, Boualam, Blaszak, Kate, Somoulay, V., Allen, J., Gilbert, Jeffrey

“…The selection of villages is weighted by village human population derived from the 2005 National census and GIS data. Participatory questionnaire development and data storage was enabled by a new web based programme called SurVet. …”
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Applying the Gini Coefficient to measure inequality of water use in the Olifants River water management area, South Africa by Cullis, J., van Koppen, Barbara

“…Using readily available information on water use registrations, water use estimates, and census data, two versions of the Gini Coefficient are calculated. …”
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Methods for the quantification of GHG emissions at the landscape level for developing countries in smallholder contexts by Milne, E, Neufeldt, Henry, Rosenstock, Todd S., Smalligan, M, Cerri, Carlos Eduardo, Malin, Daniella, Easter, M., Bernoux, Martial, Ogle, Stephen Michael, Casarim, F, Pearson, T, Bird, D.N., Steglish, E, Ostwald, M, Denef, K, Paustian, Keith

“…Landscape scale assessments of GHGs require a combination of ground sampling, use of data from census, remote sensing (RS) or other sources and modelling. …”
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Spotting East African mammals in open savannah from Space by Zheng Yang, Tiejun Wang, Skidmore, Andrew K., Leeuw, Jan de, Said, Mohammed Yahya, Freer, J.

“…However, little research has been conducted in the area of satellite-aided wildlife census, although computer processing speeds and image analysis algorithms have vastly improved. …”
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Exploratory spatial analysis of Lyme disease in Texas—What can we learn from the reported cases? by Szonyi, Barbara, Srinath, I., Esteve-Gassent, M., Lupiani, B., Ivanek, R.

“…Case data were aggregated at the county level, and census data were used as the population at risk. Empirical Bayesian smoothing was performed to stabilize the variance. …”
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Mapping adaptive capacity and smallholder agriculture: applying expert knowledge at the landscape scale by Buck Holland, Margaret, Zaid Shamer, Sierra, Imbach, Pablo, Zamora, Juan Carlos, Medellin Moreno, Claudia, Leguía Hidalgo, Efraín José, Donatti, Camila I., Martínez Rodríguez, Ruth, Harvey, Celia A.

“…While this approach does not replace the need to collect regular and consistent data on farming systems (e.g. agricultural census), our study demonstrates a rapid assessment approach for using expert input to fill key data gaps, enable trans-boundary comparisons, and to facilitate the identification of the most vulnerable smallholder communities for adaptation planning in data-poor environments that are typical of tropical regions. …”
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Feed supply-demand databases as decision making tools for prioritizing livestock interventions to close yield gaps and reduce negative environmental foot prints by Blümmel, Michael, Haileslassie, Amare, Samireddypalle, A., Herrero, Mario, Ramana Reddy, Y., Mayberry, D.

“…The two pillars of such feed data bases are assessment of quantitative and qualitative feed availability to calculate present feed supply and livestock census data (livestock population, species composition, herd structure, productivity levels) to estimate feed demand. …”
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A global, spatially-explicit assessment of irrigated croplands influenced by urban wastewater flows by Thebo, Anne Louise, Drechsel, Pay, Lambin, Eric, Nelson, Kara

“…Case studies document the widespread use of untreated wastewater in irrigated agriculture, but due to the practical and political challenges of conducting a true census of this practice, its global extent is not well known except where reuse has been planned. …”
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Effects of training duration and the role of gender on farm participation in water user associations in southern Tajikistan: implications for irrigation management by Balasubramanya, Soumya

“…Farms were then selected from a census using a stratified random sampling process. …”
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Delineation of agricultural systems in a major tropical area of cacao production (Barlovento, Venezuela) by means of multivariate analysis by Barrios, M, Arias, L, San José, J.J

“…Basic data of samples were selected at random from a census of 850 production units, encompassing three main components of the systems: producer's economic rationality, technology, and natural environment. …”
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Estimating the effective population size of Swedish native cattle : understanding the demographic trajectories of indigenous Swedish cattle breeds by Adepoju, Dolapo

“…However, besides the census population sizes, it is crucial to assess the impacts of genetic drift to design strategic breeding programmes to improve genetic diversity and safeguard the breeds against genetic erosion. …”

Movement patterns of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) around their kills in southern Sweden by Nystrand, Magnus

“…The knowledge about how lynx move around their kills in southern Sweden may be important to help develop the census methods for lynx and to carry out more accurate population estimations in the future. …”

Comparison of three different indirect methods to evaluate ungulate population densities by Pfeffer, Sabine

“…The aim of this thesis was to evaluate densities of moose (Alces alces), red deer (Cervus elaphus), roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), and fallow deer (Dama dama) in a confined area in Västerbotten, Sweden, via three different non-invasive wildlife census methods: camera trapping, traditional dung pellet group counts, and DNA-based ID-ing of dung samples. …”
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Entre los mimbreros, con censo by Olemberg, Demián Jeremías

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Towards a cropping system sustainability tool (CROSST) - Pilot results from evaluating green manure cover crops in Benin and Kenya by Mukiri, Jessica, Diogo, Rodrigue V. Cao, Gbedjissokpa, Sènami G.M., Kinyua, Michael, Hoek, Rein van der, Sommer, Rolf, Paul, Birthe K.

“…CROSST still needs further data refinement with recent official census as well as independent field measurements. …”
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Mortality as the primary constraint to enhancing nutritional and financial gains from poultry: A multi-year longitudinal study of smallholder farmers in western Kenya by Otiang, E., Campbell, Zoë A., Thumbi, Samuel M., Njagi, L.W., Nyaga, P.N., Palme, G.H.

“…Methods In a 4-year longitudinal study of 1,908 smallholder households in rural western Kenya, the number of chickens owned by quarterly census at each household was determined. Households reported gains and losses of chicken over the immediate previous quarter. …”
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Making health insurance pro-poor: Evidence from a household panel in rural China by Filipski, Mateusz J., Zhang, Yumei, Chen, Kevin Z.

“…We exploit primary panel data consisting of a complete census (over 3500 individuals) in three villages in Puding County, Guizhou province, collected in 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2011. …”
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Insights from poverty maps for development and food relief program targeting: an application to Malawi by Benson, Todd

“…Poverty mapping applies models of household welfare developed from detailed household consumption and expenditure surveys to the extensive but less detailed data from national censuses. A poverty map for Malawi, developed by drawing upon information from the 1997–98 Malawi Integrated Household Survey with the 1998 Malawi Population and Housing Census, provides aggregate estimates of household welfare and poverty at a highly disaggregated level—down to the level of local government wards. …”
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