Africa Center

Evaluating Communal Grazing Reserve Efficacy for Rangeland Biomass Restoration in Afar, Ethiopia: An Integrated Remote Sensing and Field Assessment

{ "background": "Communal grazing reserves are a key rangeland management strategy in arid and semi-arid pastoral systems of the Horn of Africa, yet empirical evidence of their efficacy for biomass restoration remains limited and contested.", "purpose and objectives": "This study...

Evaluating Communal Grazing Reserve Efficacy for Rangeland Biomass Restoration in Afar, Ethiopia: An Integrated Remote Sensing and Field Assessment

{ "background": "Communal grazing reserves are a key rangeland management strategy in arid and semi-arid pastoral systems of the Horn of Africa, yet empirical evidence of their efficacy for biomass restoration remains limited and contested.", "purpose and objectives": "This study...

One Health and antimicrobial stewardship: a call to multi-sectoral collaboration to prevent the emerging epidemic of antimicrobial resistance

A common misconception is that Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) stems solely from poor treatment management in hospitals and weak health systems. AMR is, however, driven by a multitude of factors, including environmental stressors such as contamination from industrial, agricultural...