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Folkloric Cues And Taste Bias In African Vegetable Foods.
(2008)
Food is significant beyond its nutritive value and its dietary customs are culturally contextualised. Folklore, the unwritten cultural evidence of a people, presents a stable platform for cultural analysis of oral food ...
Migrants, urban poverty and the changing nature of urban–rural linkages in Kenya
(2007)
In the literature on rural–urban linkages in sub-Saharan Africa the focus has so far been predominantly on the urban dwellers contributing to the livelihood of the rural ones, usually through remittances from family members ...
Influence of culture on Strategic Human Resource Management(SHRM) practices in multinational companies(MNC) in Kenya: A critical literature review
(University of Nairobi,, 2007)
Extant theories of strategic human resource management(SHRM) practices and cultures have generally adopted on the one hand the assumption that organizations develop a culture of thier own that is distinct from the national ...
Health-seeking behaviour of human brucellosis cases in rural Tanzania
(University of Nairobi, 2007)
Background: Brucellosis is known to cause debilitating conditions if not promptly treated. In some rural
areas of Tanzania however, practitioners give evidence of seeing brucellosis cases with symptoms of long
duration. ...
Persistent Gender Inequity in Academic Employment at Makerere University: Is There a Gendered Agenda?
(University of Nairobi, 2007)
The study investigated the persistent gender inequity in academic employment to specifically establish, on one hand, what explains and maintains gender inequity and, on the other hand, what can be done to close the gender ...
Nutritional and oral health status of an elderly population in Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 2008)
Objective: To determine the nutrition and oral health status of elderly persons in Nairobi, Kenya. Design: A cross-sectional study. Setting: Households in Dagoretti Division of Nairobi. Subjects: Two hundred and eighty ...
Managing green manure legumes for improved maize production in Kenyan highlands
(University of Nairobi,, 2006)
Declining soil fertility and inadequate and low quality feed resources limit smallholder crop yields and dairy production in Kenyan highlands. Green manure legumes can provide an alternative to the use of commercial N ...
Effect of combining organic residues with Minjingu phosphate rock on sorption and availability of phosphorus and maize production in acid soils of western Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2007-01)
Experiments were conducted in both the greenhouse and the field on highly weathered (Orthic Ferralsol) soils to evaluate the effect of combining on-farm organic residues (chicken manure, farmyard manure, sugar bagasse) ...