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Do Nutrition Education Approaches With Preschoolers and Their Caregivers Influence Retention of Biofortified Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato on Farms?: Evidence From Homa Bay County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2021-07)
Background: Biofortified staples have been promoted widely in sub-Saharan Africa to combat micronutrient deficiencies. Contemporary projects are increasingly using elementary schools to target households with these ...
The contribution of extensive chicken production systems and practices to Newcastle disease outbreaks in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2021-02)
Newcastle disease (ND) poses a challenge especially for farmers rearing indigenous chicken under the extensive system. This is due to the lack of uniformity in practices, favoring the introduction and spread of the disease. ...
Determinants of Pastoralists’ Participation in Commercial Fodder Markets for Livelihood Resilience in Drylands of Northern Kenya:case of Isiolo
(University of Nairobi, 2020)
Feed insecurity associated with prolonged and recurrent droughts remains a perennial challenge impeding livestock
production and a major source of resource-based conflicts in the drylands of many developing countries such ...
Technical Efficiency and Technology Gaps of Sorghum Plots in Uganda: a Gendered Stochastic Metafrontier Analysis
(University of Nairobi, 2021)
Sorghum plot managers in different locations have varying levels of resource endowment that in turn influence
technical efficiency (TE). Therefore, plot managers operate at different levels of technology. The present ...
Comparison of Technical Efficiency and Technology Gaps Between Contracted and Non-contracted Vegetable Farmers in Western Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2021)
Contract farming is an innovative institutional arrangement with potential benefits to the livelihood of value chain actors................................................................................................. ...