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Recent Trends of Minimum and Maximum Surface Temperatures over Eastern Africa
(2000-08)
This study investigated recent trends in the mean surface minimum and maximum air temperatures over eastern
Africa by use of both graphical and statistical techniques. Daily records for 71 stations for the period \939-92
were ...
Right from primary school, I liked science: understanding health research capacity building in sub-Saharan Africa through Kenyan training experiences.
(2014)
Defining research career paths that enable Africans to address local and global health issues is essential for population health. This study was conducted to better understand how international health training programs ...
Feeding dairy cattle in East Africa.
(2012)
This book contains 9 chapters that discuss the nutrient requirements of dairy cows; pasture management; forage production and utilization; supplements and additives; feeding calves, heifers and cows; ration formulation; ...
Mapping aflatoxin risk from milk consumption using biophysical and socio-economic data: a case study of Kenya
(2016)
This research reports a mapping of aflatoxin risk in the milk value chain in Kenya using a geographic information systems (GIS) approach. The objective was to spatially locate regions at risk by taking into account biophysical ...
Kenyan Women Medical Doctors and Their Motivations to Pursue International Research Training
(Wolters Kluwer, 2013)
There is a need to understand the factors that influence African women medical doctors to pursue international health research
training because they remain under-represented in research fields but increasingly represented ...
Strengthening Agricultural Education in Africa: The Approach of the Forum for Agricultural Resource Husbandry
(2000)
The attainment of sustainable food security in sub-Saharan Africa requires the efforts of a large cadre of well-trained agricultural resource specialists familiar with the constraints and perspectives of smallhold farmers ...
PREP-PAC: a nutrient replenishment product designed for smallholders in western Kenya
(2003-12)
Continuous cropping in the absence of external nutrient inputs to soils has led to the expression of poorly productive patches in farmers’ fields of western Kenya. Farmers attempting to correct these conditions are often ...
Oldowan raw material procurement and use: Evidence from the Koobi Fora formatlon
(2009)
Raw material availability has been shown to be a major factor affecting the material culture of Oldowan tool users. Studies of artefact provenance often focus on site-specific raw material availability. Here, we use data ...