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A Triple Hurdle Analysis of the Use of Electronic-Based Agricultural Market Information Services: The Case of Smallholder Farmers in Kenya
(2012)
Smallholder farmers’ access to markets has traditionally been constrained by lack of market information. The need to facilitate farmers’ access to markets has seen the emergence of many projects that employ electronic tools ...
Pasture use and management strategies in the Ankole pastoral system in Uganda
(University of Nairobi., 2012)
The Bahima ethnic group have been crossbreeding autochthonous Ankole with Holstein-Friesian cattle. Separate herds (pure Ankole and crossbreds) are common. A survey was conducted to characterize pasture utilization and ...
Monitoring of Aphid Fauna in Passionfruit Orchards in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2013)
Passionfruit woodiness disease viral pathogens limit passionfruit
production and are non-persistently transmitted by aphid vectors. The
study was conducted to identify aphid species and assess the population
dynamics ...
The role of collective action in overcoming the challenges of European Food Safety Standards: The Case of Kenya’s French Bean and Nile Perch Industries
(2011)
The European Union (EU) is the leading importer of developing-country high value exports. EU
countries have in the last two decades developed stringent food safety standards and imposed them on
developing-country fresh ...
A dynamic study of smallholder mixed farms in Wundanyi location, Taita district, Kenya: activities, performance and interactions
(2010)
This study undertook a dynamic survey ofa sample of thirty mixed dairy-crop farmers for 11 months over two rainy seasons. The study identified the farmer's objectives ancl observed the system over a sufficient period to ...
Spatial distribution of African Animal Trypanosomiasis in Suba and Teso districts in Western Kenya
(BioMed Central, 2010)
Background: Studies on the epidemiology of African Animal Trypanosomiasis (AAT) rarely consider the spatial
dimension of disease prevalence. This problem is confounded by use of parasitological diagnostic methods of ...
An analysis of inbreeding levels and factors affecting growth and reproductive traits in the Kenya Alpine dairy goat
(2011)
The level of inbreeding of the Kenya Alpine dairy goat was investigated by use of Brian Kinghorn’s Pedigree viewer© software. From 1,067 doe records, data on parentage was extracted and this resulted to 3,516 individual ...
Characteristics of the industry, constraints in processing, and marketing of potato crisps in processing, and marketing of potato crisps in Kenya
(2010)
There has been an increase in the number of potato crisps processors in Kenya in the last few decades. However, the characteristics of these firms are not clearly known. This study was designed to characterize the potato ...
An analysis of factors affecting smallholder mixed farming activities, performance and interactions in Wundanyi location, Taita district, Kenya
(2010)
Principal component analysis was used to analyze data collected from a dynamic study of thirty mixed dairy-crop farmers. The study was undertaken for II months over two rainy seasons to analyze the major production factors ...
Reaction of selected common bean genotypes to physiological races
(2011)
The wide pathogenic variability occurring in Phaeoisariopsis griseola, the causal agent of angular leaf spot of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), dictates that new sources of resistance be continuously identified. This ...