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    • Flood and Education: Access to Education in Flood Prone Areas 

      Ndirangu, CW; Monda, A; Imonje, R (Lambert Publishing (LAP), 2014)

    • Water Resources 

      Awange, Joseph L; Kiema, John B Kyalo (University of Nairobi, 2013)
      Fresh water is one of the basic necessities without which human beings cannot survive since water is key to the sustainability of all kinds of lifeforms. Water has multiple uses namely; nutritional, domestic, recreational, ...

    • Dholuo grammar for beginners 

      Onyoyo, Peter Onyango (2012)

    • Female Genital Cutting among the Somali of Kenya and Management of its Complications 

      Jaldesa, Guyo W; Askew, Ian; Njue, Carolyne; Wanjiru, Monica (University of Nairobi, 2005-02)
      The Somali community living in Kenya (and in their native Somalia) has practised the severest formof female genital cutting (FGC), infibulation, for centuries. To understand the context within which the practice takes ...

    • Law as Social Practice and an Impetus for Development Theory & Practice 

      Onyoyo, Onyango Peter (University of Nairobi, 2014)

    • Photosynthesis In Relation To Plant Production In Terrestrial Environments. 

      Beadle, CL; Long, SP; Imbamba, SK; Hall, DO; Olembo, RJ (University of Nairobi, 1985)
      This book which is published for the United Nations Environment Programme arises from a report entitled Photosynthesis and Bioproductivity submitted to the 9th session of the Governing Council of UNEP in 1981 and updated ...

    • Chapter 5 – Climate 

      Obiero, John PO; Onyando, Japheth O (University of Nairobi, 2013)
      Climatic characteristics, factors influencing them and effects on agro-climatic zonation and crop productions is discussed. It is recognized that climate plays a key role in agricultural production which is the mainstay ...

    • Carbon Sequestration And Organic Resource Management In African Smallholder Agriculture. 

      Woomer, PL; Palm, CA; Qureshi, JN; Kotto-Same, J (University of Nairobi, 1998)
      Carbon reserves of selected natural ecosystems in Africa and their initial C losses following land conversion are described and losses under continuous cultivation in that East African highlands are examined. The effects ...

    • Chapter 20 – Overview of Landslide Occurrences in Kenya: Causes, Mitigation, and Challenges 

      Maina-Gichaba, Charles; Kipseba, Enoch K; Masibo, Moses (University of Nairobi, 2013)
      Natural disasters disrupt people's lives through displacements, destruction of livelihoods and property, deaths, and injuries. Consequently, they take back years of development, thus posing a major challenge to the achievement ...

    • Urban Health Research in Developing Countries: Implications for Policy 

      Ayiemba, Elias H O; Atkinson, S; Songsore, J; Werna, E (University of Nairobi, 1997)

    • Rural sociology and rural development. Its application in Kenya. 

      Mbithi, P. M. (East African Literature Bureau, 1974)
      The book contains the following chapters: approaches to the farm and community; social interaction: its dynamic bases in rural Kenya; sociological issues in rural and farm labour; land tenure and related sociological issues; ...

    • Public and Private Universities in Kenya 

      Mwiria, Kilemi; Ng’ethe, Njuguna; Ngome, Charles; Ouma- Odero, Douglas; Wawire, Violet; Wesonga, Daniel; Tum, J (University of Nairobi, 2007)
      This book gives an interesting insight into the politics that face HE in Kenya, the history of public universities and the growth of private universities – many of which are only for the wealthy. The government wants to ...

    • Dry Matter Production And Partitioning In Two Cultivars Of Phaseolus Vulgaris Under Different Watering Regimes 

      Coulson, C L; D'Souza, H A (University of Nairobi, 1988-04)
      2 cultivars of the common bean were planted in 20 litre buckets filled with forest soil. 3 plants were maintained per bucket and the buckets spaced at 10 x 30 cm to approximate field spacing. The field capacity (FC) was ...

    • Agricultural development in Kenya. An economic assessment 

      Heyer, J; Senga, W M; Maitha, JK (University of Nairobi,, 1976)
      This book is an attempt to collect and correlate information and data on agriculture and agricultural development in Kenya from the colonial era to the early 1970s. The 10 chapters contributed by various authors are entitled; ...

    • PAR Project's Experiments With Community Education. 

      Muthungu, M; Nduku, K.; Ontita, E. G; Chitere, O; Mutiso, R. (University of Nairobi, 1991)
      The participatory action research (PAR) project, conducted by the University of Nairobi, Kenya during 1989, sought to involve members of communities in its research activities. The preliminary studies that were carried out ...

    • Sheep Production in the Tropics. 

      Unknown author (Clarendon Press, 1983)
      This little book attempts to cover a very large subject, and the general treatment is, of necessity, superficial. Although the discussion ranges over sheep production in all tropical areas, the main emphasis lies in the ...

    • Short essays on education in Kenya. 

      Sifuna, D N. (University of Nairobi, 1980)
      The essays deal with a wide range of subjects and discuss a number of problems in Kenyan education in depth. Subjects include: problems of policy in African education in the colonial days, highlighting the Christian ...

    • real risk weighed pricing model 

      Anyika, E; Weke, P; Achia, T (Ajuma Publishing, 2012)

    • Quaternary volcanic events in Africa 

      Nyambok, Isaac O. (University of Nairobi,, 1998)

    • The African Family Between Tradition And Modernity. 

      Ocholla-Ayayo, AB (University of Nairobi, 1997)
      This book chapter studies the African family as being caught between tradition and modernity. The African family is a social unit with norms and beliefs and an economic unit for the survival of its members. Families include ...