Browsing Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM) by Subject "Organic wastes"

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    • Recycling Nutrients from OrganicWastes in Kenya’s Capital City 

      Mary, Njenga; Dannie, Romney; Nancy, Karanja; Kuria, Gathuru; Stephen, Kimani; Sammy, Carsan; Will, Frost (International Potato Center,Department of Land Resource Management & Agricultural Technology, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2010)
      The question how much of the potential soil nutrients contained in urban wastes are being used and what processes are involved led to this study in the early 2000s. The issue is of central importance to understanding the ...

    • Traditional soil fertility management strategies: Do they conform to recommendations in organic farming? A case study of the smallholder farmers of the Central Rift Valley Province of Kenya 

      Onwonga, Richard N; Freyer, Bernhard; Lelei, Joyce J (Department of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology, University of Nairobi,Division of Organic Farming, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU), Gregor MendelStra 33, A-1180 Wien, AustriaDepartment of Crop, Horticulture and Soils, Egerton University, P.O. Box 536, Njoro, Kenya, 2008)
      The low input nature of organic farming (OF) is often likened to the traditional soil fertility management practices (TSFMP) of smallholder farming systems in developing countries. There are however no concrete studies to ...