Browsing Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM) by Subject "Africa"
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Are we getting there? Evidence of decentralized forest management from the Tanzanian Miombo woodlands
(University of Nairobi,Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies, 2008)Based on a village study in Tanzania, the effects of decentralized forest management on forest conservation, rural livelihoods and good governance are evaluated. Tree growth is estimated to exceed harvest, and forest ... -
Continuing Professional Development for Veterinarians Working in Africa
(Department of Veterinary Pathology, Microbiology & Parasitology Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Nairobi, 2012-04-27)Livestock production in Africa makes a vital contribution to livelihoods, food security, income generation and gross national product. With itsenormous forage production potential and currentlivestockpopulation of more ... -
Creating space: Sack gardening as a livelihood strategy in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya
(2015)As many countries in sub-Saharan Africa undergo rapid urbanization, a growing number of people are joining the ranks of the urban poor. Urban agriculture is a livelihood strategy used by the poor to improve their ... -
Democratic decentralization in sub-Saharan Africa: its contribution to forest management, livelihoods, and enfranchisement
(University of Nairobi,Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies, 2010)Efforts to promote popular participation in forest management in Sub-Saharan Africa have faced many obstacles and disappointments. Although promises of improvements in relation to forest management, rural livelihoods and ... -
Energetic cost of carrying loads: have African women discovered an economic way?
(Nature Publishing GroupDepartment of Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology, University of Nairobi, 1986-02)When travelling in East Africa one is often surprised at the prodigious loads carried by the women of the area. It is not uncommon to see women of the Luo tribe carrying loads equivalent to 70% of their body mass balanced ... -
Export Standards, Market Institutions and Smallholder Farmer Exclusion from Fresh Export Vegetable High Value Chains: Experiences from Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia
(Department of Agricultural Economics, 2011-12)Many African countries are diversifying exports into fresh export vegetables, grown mainly by smallholder farmers. However, markets for these new products have stringent safety standards. This paper examines the green ... -
Oxygen-binding properties of hemoglobins from estivating and active African lungfish.
(Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology, University of Nairobi, 1991-01)he oxygen-binding characteristics and the multiplicity of the stripped hemoglobiin from active lungfish Protopterus amphibius, are the same as in specimens that have been estivating for about 30 months, showing that ... -
A Review of African Pastoral Production Systems: Approaches to Their Understanding and Development
(Department of Range Management, University of Nairobi, 2002)Pastoralism is a system that has been in existence for a long time. Scholars have come up with a cornucopia of definitions related to what entails this centuries old art. Many of these scholars agree, though, that ... -
Role of plasmids in the virulence of enteric bacteria
(Department of Veterinary Pathology, Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Nairobi, 1997)Plasmids have been shown to play an important role in the pathogenecity of most enterobacteria. Their involvement in various enterobacteria was discovered at different times and there is resemblance in the type of toxins ... -
Surveillance of the overall use of antimicrobial drugs in humans over a 5 year period (1997-2001) in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi.Department of Public Health, Pharmacology and Toxicology, 2004-11)Not available -
Technical innovation and farm productivity growth in dryland Africa: The effects of structural adjustment on smallholders in Kenya
(Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2000-12)This paper uses non-parametric approach to measure technical innovation and productivity growth at the smallholder farm-level in dry-land sub-Saharan Africa during the initial years of the structural adjustment programmes ...