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Author: Hamed K. Abbas

Aflatoxins are responsible for damaging up to 25% of the world's food crops, resulting in large economic losses in developed countries and human and animal disease in under-developed ones. In addition to aflatoxins, the ...

Author: Robert B. Edgerton

The history of Africas armies, from the heroic units of the pre-colonial and colonial eras to the corrupt and inglorious forces of the years following independence. Africas Armies traces the military history of sub-Sahar ...

Author: Derek Byerlee & Carl K. Eicher

This text presents the results of extensive field research on the maize economy in six African countries, as well as broader-based studies of maize research and extension (R&E), soil fertility, seed distribution, fertili ...

Author: Derek Byerlee & Carl K. Eicher

This text presents the results of extensive field research on the maize economy in six African countries, as well as broader-based studies of maize research and extension (R&E), soil fertility, seed distribution, fertili ...

Author: World Bank

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been a remarkable success in Africa. In just 10 years dating from the end of the 1990s mobile network coverage rose from 16 percent to 90 percent of the urban popula ...

Author: Anton Eberhard & Maria Shkaratan

Africa's chronic power problems have escalated in recent years into a crisis affecting 30 countries, taking a heavy toll on economic growth and productivity. The region has inadequate generation capacity, limited electri ...

Author: Ola M Gaines

This qualitative research study used in-depth interviews with 20 African American women small-business owners from a wide range of sectors, education levels, and business and entrepreneur ages to understand African Ameri ...

Author: Helen E. Purkitt

Environmental and human security issues are vital national security interests in African states because most citizens are engaged in daily struggles to survive. Chronic and worsening resource scarcities and degradations ...

Author: L. A. Lewis & L. Berry

First published in 1988, this work provides a comprehensive picture of the range of physical environments in Africa, focusing upon those characteristics and issues central to the management of environmental resources. Be ...

Author: Joseph Hounhouigan

The first single book to catalog the diversity of fermented foods and beverages from all Africa, this reference covers all aspects related to the various fermented products. It covers the technologies, microbiology, n ...

Author: John F. Fitzgerald, Barbara V. Braatz, Sandra Brown & others

As atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases continue to increase, so does the potential for atmospheric warming and associated climate change. In an effort to address the threat of global climate change, 155 cou ...

Author: Andrew B. Smith

Scholars have long acknowledged a gap in the archaeological literature on African herder societies. Utilizing almost 40 years' work, Andrew Smith presents a detailed portrait of modern herdsmen and their historical antec ...

Author: Andrew B. Smith

Utilizing almost years work, Andrew Smith presents a detailed portrait of modern herdsmen and their historical antecedents. Following the assumption that Africa has never been isolated from the rest of the world, Smith i ...

Author: C.M. Shackleton, M. Pasquini & A.W. Drescher

This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge of the potential and challenges associated with the multiple roles, use, management and livelihood contributions of indigenous vegetables in urban agricul ...

Author: Mammo Muchie

AJSTID is a multi-disciplinary and refereed international journal on science, technology, innovation and development in Africa and other low-income countries. It was established in appreciation of the role and importance ...

Author: James Simon, Rodolfo Juliani & Lyle E. Craker

Reviewing the latest discoveries made through the collection, cultivation, production, processing, marketing, and commercialization of African botanicals, this compendium provides case studies on several new plants used ...

Author: Dagda Tanner Mattheus

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The African Telecommunications Union is a continental organization that combines countries a ...

Author: Carmela Garritano

"African Video Movies and Global Desires" is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana's commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an ...

Author: Antulio J. Echevarria II

The writings of Carl von Clausewitz loom so large in the annals of military theory that they obscure the substantial contributions of those thinkers who came after him. This is especially true for those German theorists ...

Author: Martin Collins

In the 50 years since Sputnik's historic orbit kickstarted a race to the stars, spaceflight has moved from a speculative and experimental science to a staple of contemporary life. Space exploration has changed the way ...