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Spatial approach for diagnosis of yield-limiting nutrients in smallholder agroecosystem landscape using population-based farm survey data
(University of Nairobi, 2022-02)
Adept use of fertilizers is critical if sustainable development goal two of zero hunger and agroecosystem resilience are to be achieved for African smallholder agroecosystems. These heterogeneous systems are characterized ...
Do Transaction Costs Influence Smallholder Rubber Farmers’ Choice of Selling Outlets? Evidence From Liberia
(University of Nairobi, 2021)
This article determines the effect of transaction costs and socio-economic
factors on smallholder natural rubber farmers’ decisions to sell at the farm
gate to itinerant traders or in the alternative markets in Liberia. ...
Women's Empowerment and Intra-household Gender Dynamics and Practices Around Sheep and Goat Production in South East Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2022)
Small ruminant production facets like decision-making, ownership, labour allocation, access to- and control over assets are gendered. This study investigates intra-household gender dynamics and practices around sheep and ...
Village-indigenous Chicken Bacterial Carriage After the Heavy Rains of 2018, Kenya: Indicator on Environmental Contamination With Pathogenic/zoonotic Bacteria
(University of Nairobi, 2022)
Food borne diseases are one of the major human disease conditions worldwide. Most of them are of bacterial origin and chickens are a major source of such bacteria; they are consumed at high rate worldwide and tend to harbor ...
Linking Farmers' Risk Attitudes, Livelihood Diversification and Adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture Technologies in the Nyando Basin, South-western Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2022)
Climate smart agriculture (CSA) technologies are innovations meant to reduce the risks in agricultural production among smallholder farmers. Among the factors that influence farmer adoption of agricultural technologies are ...
Assessing spatial variability of selected soil properties in Upper Kabete campus farm, university of nairobi, kenya
(Heliyon, 2022)
This study aimed to evaluate spatial variability of selected soil parameters as a smart agricultural technology guide to precise fertilizer application. A farm designated as Field 3 which is under Arabica coffee within a ...
Quantitative versus qualitative risk assessment of meat and its products: what is feasible for Sub-Saharan African countries?
(University of Nairobi, 2022)
Prevalent risks in meat value-chains of sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are increasingly attributed to microbial rather than chemical hazards. Resource constraints and lack of capacity has limited the utilization of ...
Revisiting soil texture analysis: Practices towards a more accurate Bouyoucos method
(University of Nairobi, 2022-05)
The Bouyoucos method lacks sample pre-treatment whereby samples are dispersed for only 2 min after being soaked in 5% sodium hexametaphosphate (calgon) for 15-20 h. This study aimed to improve the accuracy of the Bouyoucos ...
Culture of Kenyan Goat (Capra Hircus) Undifferentiated Spermatogonia in Feeder-free Conditions
(University of Nairobi, 2022)
The undifferentiated spermatogonial population in mammalian testes contains a spermatogonial stem cell (SSC) population that can regenerate continual spermatogenesis following transplantation. This capacity has the potential ...
Stakeholders' Knowledge, Attitude, and Perceptions on the Control of Taenia Solium in Kamuli and Hoima Districts, Uganda
(University of Nairobi, 2022)
Taenia (T.) solium is a zoonotic parasite causing three diseases: Taeniasis and
cysticercosis in humans and porcine cysticercosis in pigs. Although biomedically, the
transmission of the parasite can be easily interrupted ...