George Mburathi's scientific contributions

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With Murdoch University’s commitment to quality research and teaching in public policy at both national and international levels, the Commission and its reports are exercises in applied public policy informed by rigorous scholarly research and analytical thinking. 'The Third Murdoch Commission: Inclusive Transactions on the Continent of Africa' i...
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Knowledge of Africa's complex farming systems, set in their socio-economic and environomental context, is an essential ingredient to developing effective strategies for improving food and nutrition security. This book systematically and comprehensively describes the characteristics, trends, drivers of change and strategic prioritiesf or each of A...

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... According to protagonists of South Africa's blue economy agenda, its 3500-km coastline and resource rich waters have the potential to create thousands of jobs and boost the country's economy (Potgieter 2021). The country's oceans are said to have the potential to generate as much as R177 billion towards the gross domestic product (GDP) and provide up to a million employment opportunities although this claim is being increasingly questioned (Potgieter 2018;Masie and Bond 2018;Bond 2019). ...
... While in East, Central and Southern Africa farming systems can broadly be characterized as maize mixed farming systems, the West African Savannah systems are described as cereal root crop mixed farming systems (Dixon et al., 2020). For Northern Ghana, Kuivanen et al. (2016aKuivanen et al. ( , 2016b and Signorelli (2016) developed farm typologies for smallholders that grouped farms and farmers according to their resource endowment. ...