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Rural livelihoods in the arid and semi-arid environments of Kenya: Sustainable alternatives and challenges
(2005)
Abstract
The improvement of the welfare of inhabitants of arid and semi-arid lands, either through the enhancement of existing livelihoods or the promotion of alternative ones, and their potential constraints are ...
Tsetse control and land-use change in Lambwe valley, south-western Kenya
(2005-03)
For a long time, trypanosomosis, spread by the tsetse fly Glossina, constrained human settlement in the Lambwe Valley, a south-western Kenya rangeland. After lengthy efforts to control tsetse over many years, the valley ...
Seasonal botanical and chemical composition of sheep and goat diets on a common range in eastern Africa
(2004)
he botanical and chemical composition, intake and digestibility of local sheep (Ovis aries) and goat (Capra hirtus) diets were evaluated over the wet (growing) and dry (dormant) seasons. Diet botanical composition was ...
The distribution of Vibrio parahaemolyticus serotypes in Kenyan seafish, shellfish, marine water and sediment
(1982)
Vibrio parahaemolyticus was recovered from 74 of 912 marine samples screened for the organism. Of 74 isolates of V. parahaemolyticus obtained from marine fish, crustacean shellfish (prawns, lobster, crabs), and molluscan ...
Breeding goals for the Kenya Dual Purpose Goat I. model development and application to smallholder systems
(Springer Netherlands, 2007-10)
A deterministic model was developed and applied to evaluate biological and economic variables that characterize smallholder production systems utilizing the Kenya Dual Purpose goat (KDPG) in Kenya. The systems were defined ...
Clinical evaluation of some plaster casts available in kenya
(1994)
The ease of cast breakage, the extent of cast wearing at the foot, the ability to bear
weight on the cast limb, the severity of lameness and cast related complications were
compared clinically in three groups of six ...
Epidemiological, Clinical and Pathological findings of Oedema Disease of Swine in Kenya
(2001)
The main epidemiological findings that were associated with oedema disease of swine were recent weaning (8-14 days), mixing of piglets from different litters, change of feed and ad libitum feeding with concentrates after ...
Suspected sheep-associated malignant catarrhal fever in a zero-grazed dairy herd in Kenya
(2000)
An outbreak of a disease characterised by very high mortality occurred in a group of nine calves (1-4 months old) in a zero-grazing unit 2-3 weeks after an introduction of an apparently healthy alien sheep into the calf ...
The Impact Of Cultivation On Above Ground Primary Production, Species Diversity And Density In The Rangelands Of Laikipia District, Kenya
(2011)
Rangelands are traditionally used for livestock and wildlife production but have increasingly been put under crop cultivation in the recent past. Though land transformation for agricultural production has historic, economic, ...
Observations on rinderpest in Kenya, 1986-1989.
(1992-09)
Rinderpest was confirmed in Kenya in 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1989. Three epidemiologically distinct events appear to have occurred: repeated outbreaks in West Pokot district related to cross-border movement of stock, an ...