In this thesis, I report the results of a study on tillage choice behavior among seventy-seven farmers from Bungoma district in Kenya. Using 2001 production data, the study sought to fit a discrete choice model to analyze ...

The ranch practice is a university requirement for the Bsc. degree in range management, which entails the field attachment and coming in touch with the real management issues that are presented at the ground. It exposes ...

In Central Kenya highlands, accelerated soil erosion is caused mainly by intensive agricultural •. activities. The current conventional agricultural practices where the crop residues are completely harvested alongside ...

Six Red Maasai sheep were used to investigate the effects of urea treatment and cotton seed cake supplementation of maize stover on intake, digestibility and rumen fermentation parameters. The basal feeds were Rhodes grass ...

Sweet potato is an important food, feed and cash crop in Eastern Africa but its productivity is greatly reduced by the sweetpotato virus disease (SPVD). Variety based tolerance to SPVD is a cheap and sustainable way of ...

A comparative cross-sectional survey was conducted from October to December 2000, to assess and compare the socio-economic and food security status as well as the nutritional status of children less than five years and ...

Infant feeding (IF) in the context of HIV is challenged by the potential and cumulative risk of MTCT of HIV through breastfeeding (BF), and the risks associated with replacement feeding (RF). The human rights approach ...

This thesis describes a study on a cross-sectional survey of Mange Infestation and Contagious Caprine Plueropnuemonia (CCPP) in goats, in Turkana District, North-western Kenya. The objectives were to determine the ...