Research Papers: Recent submissions
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Fertilizer use and maize production in sub-saharan Africa
(University of NairobiFaculty of Agriculture, 1996)In sub-Saharan Africa, greater use of mineral fertilizers is crucial to increasing food production and slowing the rate of environmental degradation. Regional growth rates in fertilizer consumption have never been particularly ... -
Compensating Pastoralists for Conserving Animal Genetic Resources: The Case of Borana Cattle in Ethiopia
(2013)The Borana cattle in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia have unique traits that make them suitable for the harsh environment in the lowlands and have ever been part of the pastoralists’ identity. Almost all the traditional ... -
Role of credit in the uptake and productivity of improved dairy technologies in Kenya
(ILRI, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)Department of Agricultural Economics, 1998)The potential for increasing marketable domestic milk production lives mainly in improving the technologies used as the smallholder farm sector. The other area of concern to complement technology improvement would be to ... -
Agricultural sector development
(University of Nairobi,Department of Plant Science & Crop Production, 1993) -
Rural households’ response to Fuelwood scarcity around Kakamega Forest, Western Kenya
(24-07-13)The debate on forest degradation in Kenya is mainly concerned with the utilization and exploitation of forest resources. Of particular interest is fuelwood, whose scarcity is a major forest degradation concern. Fuelwood ... -
Agronomic, Socio - Economic and Environmental Benefits of Biological Nitrogen - Fixing Systems in Africa.
(University of Nairobi,Department of Land Resource Management & Agricultural Technology, 1995) -
Achievements and impact of NERICA on sustainable rice production in sub - Saharan Africa.
(University of Nairobi,Department of Land Resource Management & Agricultural Technology, 2006)In terms of production, rice is the fourth most important cereal (after sorghum, maize and millet) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It occupies 10 percent of the total land under cereal production and accounts for 15 percent ... -
Wildlife Conservation and Management in Kenya: Towards a Co-management Approach
(2004)The co-management approach of managing natural resources has increasingly become popular among conservationists and development practitioners since it overcomes the shortcomings of both the centralised management and ... -
Sexuality and the use of condom among male university students
(University of NairobiDepartment of obstetrics and gynaecology,University of Nairobi., 1994) -
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 ... -
Kenya: The women's movement and democratic change
(Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies, University of Nairobi, 1998) -
Fiscal accountability and governance in Kenya,coordinated byACEG and funded by USAID on 16th September 2003
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2003) -
Narrative, drama and adolescent health in conference on researching drama and theatre in education, 1995 (J.W. Somers, ed.) exeter: University of exeter, School of education
(Department of Literature, University of Nairobi, 1995) -
After the Kenyan harvest in fearful symmetries: essays and testimonies around excision and circumcision
(Amsterdam & NYDepartment of Literature, University of Nairobi, 2008) -
Screening of goats for Contagious Caprine Plueropneumonia caused by Mycoplasma capricolum subspecies capripneumoniae (biotype F38) in ranches with potential for export
(23-07-13)Contagious Caprine Plueropneumonia (CCPP) caused by Mycoplasma capricolum subspecies capripneumoniae (M. capripneumoniae, biotype F38) is the most contagious and virulent type of pneumonia in goats. It is an important trade ...