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Rural livelihoods in the arid and semi-arid environments of Kenya: Sustainable alternatives and challenges
(2005)
Abstract
The improvement of the welfare of inhabitants of arid and semi-arid lands, either through the enhancement of existing livelihoods or the promotion of alternative ones, and their potential constraints are ...
Tsetse control and land-use change in Lambwe valley, south-western Kenya
(2005-03)
For a long time, trypanosomosis, spread by the tsetse fly Glossina, constrained human settlement in the Lambwe Valley, a south-western Kenya rangeland. After lengthy efforts to control tsetse over many years, the valley ...
Seasonal botanical and chemical composition of sheep and goat diets on a common range in eastern Africa
(2004)
he botanical and chemical composition, intake and digestibility of local sheep (Ovis aries) and goat (Capra hirtus) diets were evaluated over the wet (growing) and dry (dormant) seasons. Diet botanical composition was ...
Breeding goals for the Kenya Dual Purpose Goat I. model development and application to smallholder systems
(Springer Netherlands, 2007-10)
A deterministic model was developed and applied to evaluate biological and economic variables that characterize smallholder production systems utilizing the Kenya Dual Purpose goat (KDPG) in Kenya. The systems were defined ...
Distribution, pest status and agro-climatic preferences of lepidopteran stem borers of maize in Kenya
(2006)
Lepidopterous stem borers are the main field insect pests that attack maize, Zea mays L. in
tropical Africa. A survey was carried during the long and short rain cropping seasons of 2002 / 2003
across six main agro-climatic ...
Factors affecting abundance and distribution of submerged and floating macrophytes in Lake Naivasha, Kenya
(2007)
Macrophytes have been shown to perform important ecological roles in Lake Naivasha. Consequently, various studies regarding the impact of biotic factors on the macrophytes have been advanced but related studies on environmental ...
Epidemiological, Clinical and Pathological findings of Oedema Disease of Swine in Kenya
(2001)
The main epidemiological findings that were associated with oedema disease of swine were recent weaning (8-14 days), mixing of piglets from different litters, change of feed and ad libitum feeding with concentrates after ...
Suspected sheep-associated malignant catarrhal fever in a zero-grazed dairy herd in Kenya
(2000)
An outbreak of a disease characterised by very high mortality occurred in a group of nine calves (1-4 months old) in a zero-grazing unit 2-3 weeks after an introduction of an apparently healthy alien sheep into the calf ...
Causes of Pig Mortality in Kenya
(2005)
A total of 267 pig carcasses comprising of 59 adults, 121 weaner/grower pigs and 87 piglets were examined at post mortem in the Department of Veterinary Pathology, Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Nairobi during ...