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Agricultural Land Development in Rural Kenya: Policies Laws and Regulations
(2003)
Links between land rights and agricultural development provide a conceptual framework to analyze land rights systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. The discussion demonstrates that land rights in Sub-Saharan Africa evolved in ...
New Product Development In The Micro Enterprise Sector
(2003)
Various stakeholders come together to conceptualise, analyse and commercialise new products. This was the case recently when designers, artisans, marketers and facilitating institutions came together to engage in new product ...
Visual Ascensions
(2003)
Rainwater Harvesting for Crop Production in Semi-arid Areas
(2003)
This paper presents an analysis of economics of rainwater harvesting by poor farmers in Tanzania. A questionnaire was used to survey 120 households to obtain information on the performance of their enterprises over 6 years ...
A Study of Community Industrial Design in Kenya
(2003)
Poverty reduction strategies show promise for more transparent and rational delivery of public services to meet the needs of Africa’s rural poor. An analysis was conducted to determine how closely Kenya’s Poverty Reduction ...
Evaluation of pseudo-ductile behavior of textile concrete.
(2003)
The influence of fibers on the fatigue cracking resistance of asphalt concrete is investigated using fracture energy. Nylon, a popular facing yarn of carpets, is used for the actual recycled carpet fibers in asphalt pavement. ...
Changes and Improvement in Water Management Practices in the Mwea Irrigation Scheme
(2003)
n experiment to assess the impact of intermittent irrigation on Anopheles larval populations, rice yields and water use was conducted in the Mwea rice irrigation scheme in Kenya. Four water regimes including intermittent ...
Textile concrete: Preliminary mechanical characterization of a new ductile material.
(2003)
The mechanisms of ageing and environmental degradation involving exposure to cyclic hot/cold temperatures, wetting/drying movements as well as exposure to a carbon dioxide (CO2)-rich environment, have different effects on ...
Regional Workshop for Coordinators of Reforms in Water and Sanitation Delivery
(2003)
This study set out to examine the policy position in Kenyan health care financing, with regard to implementation of the proposed social health scheme (NSHIF) and its performance potential. The specific objectives were to: ...