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The Political Economy Of Food Price Policy: The Case Of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2013)
This paper evaluates Kenyas food price crisis over 2002.11 using a political economy approach. Kenya.s food prices have been high and volatile relative to world food prices. Moreover, domestic food markets are highly ...
Controlling infectious bursal disease through development of local vaccines and establishing ffective vaccination program
(University of Nairobi, 2013-12)
The impact of climate change on the incidence of cattle diseases in a pastoral area of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2013)
Participatory epidemiological methods were used to establish local perceptions and livestock owner’s knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAPs) of risk factors of climate variability, the seasonal variations in incidences ...
Characterizations of livestock manure market and the income contribution of manure trade in Mukogodo, Laikipia, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2013)
The use of livestock manure in African agriculture supports a market system that links pastoral and
agricultural communities, but has been little studied. We investigated this market in central Kenya.
Out of 60 households ...
The effects of tillage systems on soil physical properties and water conservation in a sandy loam soil in Eastern Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2013)
Soil water conservation through tillage is widely accepted as one of the appropriate ways of addressing
soil moisture constraints in rainfed agriculture. A field experiment was conducted for 6 seasons (2007
to 2009) to ...
Analysis of Farmers' Willingness to Conserve Traditional Rice Varieties in the Western Ghats of South India
(2013)
Conservation of crop genetic resources is a major preoccupation of the Indian government in particular and the international community at large. Drawing on a random sample of 228 farm households from two regions in the ...