A5071241650- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Malaria Research and Control
- Travel-related health issues
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Agricultural pest management studies
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
2019
Kenya Medical Research Institute
2013-2017
Over a decade ago, the Roll Back Malaria Partnership was launched, and since then there has been unprecedented investment in malaria control. We examined change transmission intensity during period 2000-10 Africa.We assembled geocoded community Plasmodium falciparum parasite rate standardised to age group 2-10 years (PfPR2-10) database from across 49 endemic countries territories Africa surveys undertaken 1980. The data were used within Bayesian space-time geostatistical framework predict...
Understanding the dynamics of food production is critical to improving security. This particularly important in regions that rely on subsistence agriculture with little adaptive capacity climate change. Sorghum plays an role security some poorest parts world. article reviews literature identify and examine major factors affecting sorghum three regions. Factors were not categorized ex ante but rather determined from review. Ten identified as having notable impacts production: change,...
<ns4:p><ns4:bold>Background</ns4:bold>: Understanding the distribution of anopheline vectors malaria is an important prelude to design national control and elimination programmes. A single, geo-coded continental inventory anophelines using all available published unpublished data has not been undertaken since 1960s.</ns4:p><ns4:p><ns4:bold>Methods</ns4:bold>: We have searched African, European World Health Organization archives identify reports on surveys in 48 sub-Saharan Africa countries....