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Use and management of Lantana camara by village farmers near Machakos, Kenya: an example of ingenuity in the use of locally available resources
(2000)
This paper describes recent changes in attitude towards and management of Lantana camara in Kalama and Muputi locations of Machakos District in Kenya. Four current uses (basket making, food, soil improvement and hedge ...
Urban farmers in Nakuru, Kenya
(Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden, 2000)
The present report contains the result of a general survey, carried out in June-July 1999, on farming practices performed by the inhabitants of Nakuru town, Kenya. The two major objectives of the survey were: 1) to collect ...
The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the approach and the experience
(Lantern Books, 2003)
The Green Belt Movement tells the story of how an organisation grew from one woman’s idea to a network of hundreds of thousands of men and women who have planted tens of millions of trees throughout Kenya. Professor Maathai ...
Unbowed: A memoir
(University of Nairobi, 2008)
Unbowed tells the story of how a girl from the Central Highlands of Kenya became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in East and Central Africa and head a university department in Kenya. We witness Professor Maathai’s numerous ...
HIV/AIDS in Kenya
(2004)
MRC Human Immunology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. The IFN-y enzyme-linked immunospot (ELI-Spot) assay is often used to map HIV-specific CD8 T-cell responses. We compared overlapping 15-mer pools with optimized ...