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Emergence, Adoption, and Implementation of Collaborative Wildlife Management or Wildlife Partnerships in Kenya: A Look at Conditions for Success
(Routledge, 2007-05)
This article explores the factors that contribute to the emergence and adoption of wildlife partnerships in Kenya. This is a management approach based on the concept of collaborative management (comanagement). In addition, ...
Forecasting hotspots of forest clearing in Kakamega Forest, Western Kenya
(2009-02)
Kakamega Forest is the last remaining rainforest in Kenya and the easternmost remnant of the Guinean-Congolian rainforest belt. As such, it is home to a large number of endemic fauna and flora species. Yet the remaining ...
A cost-benefit analysis of usage of sexed invitro fertilization embryo transfer technology in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015-09-08)
In Kenya, good quality heifers are in high demand but are generally unavailable and expensive. Innovative
us
age
of sexed semen
in an
i
n
-
vitro
embryo pr
oduction
(IVEP)
system
has a potential ...
Adaptation of institutional arrangements to management of Northern Rangelands of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015-10)
Northern Rangelands of Kenya have continued to grapple with management challenges largely due to a lack of understanding of the dynamics thereof. Eroding customary institutions and new institutional arrangements characterize ...
Determinants for Use of Certified Maize Seed and the Relative Importance of Transaction Costs
(2010)
The rising world prices for major tradable staple
s such as maize have been a concern for sub-
Saharan countries such as Kenya which are maize
deficit countries. Maize
is a major staple food
for over 80 percent of ...
Local organizations involved in the conservation of crop genetic resources: conditions for their emergence and success in Ethiopia and Kenya
(2006)
Local organizations comprising of farmers, local formal and informal institutions, and public conservators
can potentially be relevant options to confront the challenges of conserving indigenous crop varieties in
developing ...
Understanding the perceived importance of risk for coffee growers: empirical evidence from Ethiopia
(2006)
Risk perceptions play a key role in production and investment behavior of farmers. However, insufficient attention has been given to understand its nature and distribution in cash crop farming such as coffee. This study, ...
Determinants of adoption of conservation tillage practices in maize-cowpea cropping systems: The case of Makueni District, Kenya
(2011)
The low soil moisture cannot support productive agriculture to meet the increasing population in the
low rainfall tropical areas. Ripping and tied-ridging are some of the recent technologies introduced by
the Food and ...
Magnitudes and determinants of transaction costs in a group-based livestock breeding approach: the case of dairy goats in Eastern Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2013-08)
Exotic dairy goats have increasingly become important in alleviating poverty and combating hunger an
d mal
-
nutrition in Kenya. Such goats were introduced in the eastern Kenyan highlands through a group
-
based ...
Value chain analysis of smallholder snap bean production in Kirinyaga county, Kenya
(2012)
The study aimed to assess the competitiveness of small farmers of snap beans and how the value-added benefits are shared by various participants of the value chain in Kirinyaga County, Kenya. Farmers had the lowest share ...