Sökning: "Livestock"

Visar resultat 41 - 45 av 110 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Livestock.

  1. 41. Potential of Acacia angustissima, Leucaena pallida and Mimosa scabrella in agroforestry systems on a Rwandan Ferralsol

    Författare :Marguerite Mukangango; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Nyckelord :LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : Agroforestry using coppicing legume trees and shrubs is a way to improve livestock fodder quality and soil fertility in the tropics. However, tree establishment and appropriate management are challenging, hampering their integration into agriculture and livestock systems. LÄS MER

  3. 42. The martial politics of biodiversity protection: Wildlife conservation practices in northern Kenya

    Författare :Sara van der Hoeven; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; social order; CBNRM; war by conservation; militarism; green militarization; Samburu; environment; the Northern Rangelands Trust NRT ; community conservation;

    Sammanfattning : Wildlife conservation is entangled with broader conflict dynamics in pastoral and semi-arid northern Kenya and tackles livestock theft, road banditry and inter-communal conflict. The thesis aims to better understand this ‘war by conservation’, in which conservation and military-like practices address and tie into wider security issues. LÄS MER

  4. 43. Evaluation of macrocyclic lactone resistance in gastrointestinal nematodes of first season grazing cattle

    Författare :Marlene Areskog; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Nyckelord :LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : Parasitic gastrointestinal nematodes (GIN) are common world-wide among grazing cattle, and cause welfare problems and associated economic losses due to reduced performance of their hosts. In Sweden, the most important GIN include Cooperia oncophora and the more pathogenic Ostertagia ostertagi, which are usually present as mixed infections in first season grazing cattle (FSG). LÄS MER

  5. 44. Essays on resource policy, gender and land rights

    Författare :Marit Widman; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four papers. Articles I-III address gender aspects of land formalization and the role of land ownership for intra-household bargaining power. They draw on evidence from a land tenure reform in Madagascar implemented in 2005, a key component of which was to grant land certificates, i.e. LÄS MER

  7. 45. Studies on verotoxigenic Escherichia coli O157 in Swedish cattle : from sampling to disease spread modelling

    Författare :Stefan Widgren; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Nyckelord :LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : Verotoxigenic Escherichia coli O157:H7 (VTEC O157) is an important zoonotic pathogen capable of causing infections in humans, sometimes with severe symptoms such as hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Cattle are considered to be the main reservoir of the bacterium. LÄS MER