Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM): Recent submissions
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Contribution of biological nitrogen fixation towards the African food and environmental challenges
(1994)Efforts to increase food production for the rising population in Africa can benefit from the large pool of information on biological nitrogen fixation (BNF). The continued rise in the cost of chemical fertilisers and ... -
Histomoniasis in a peacock
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Characterization Of Smallholder Farm Typologies In Maize-Based Cropping Systems Of Central Kenya: Use Of Local And Technical Soil Quality Indicators
(2004)In recent years, integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) paradigm has emerged as the best strategy for different resource-poor smallholders to mitigate problems of food insecurity and poverty. This makes characterisation ... -
Potentials of the Kenya sugar industry.
(University of Nairobi, 1995)The Kenya sugar industry is at a crossroads. Over the last decade, there has been a general decline in the performance of the industry at an increasing rate. Within this period the country has been forced to increasingly ... -
Soil fertility mangement in maize -based production systems in kenya: current options and future strategies. Integrated Approaches to Higher Maize Productivity in the New Millennium
(2002)This paper analyzed the salient factors that affect the adoption of soil fertility management (SFM) technologies in the marginal and medium potential zones of Eastern and Western Kenya, respectively. Data from a survey of ... -
Dynamics of village organizations, wealth and gender in Western Kenyal villages: Analytic methodologies and challenges
(1998)Knowledge of farmers' socioeconomic situations and the biophysical conditions prevailing on their farms is key to the success of farmer-participatory technology development. In western Kenya a pilot project is underway to ... -
An outbreak of acute helminthosis in a sheep and goat farm in Machakos County
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Varroa destructor, a cause of decreased honey production in Samburu North District, Samburu County Kenya
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Food security: Adaptive capacity of rural poor to water scarcity in drylands
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The utilization of ammonia-treated maize cobs and maize stover by sheep in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 1981)Nutrient intake and digestibility of untreated and ammonia-treated maize cob meal and maize stover by sheep are tabulated. Treatment increased DM and OM intake and in vivo digestibility of both cobs and stover. Daily ... -
Evaluation of the nutritive value of forages
(University of Nairobi, 1985)The relationship between carbohydrate and protein digestion and metabolism and forage evaluation is discussed. The carbohydrate contents of several grasses and legumes are presented with their apparent digestibilities in ... -
Evaluation of feeds - some results from the study of the nutritive value of Kenyan grasses and fodder crops.
(University of Nairobi, 1976)CP and DCP contents, DM intake and OM digestibility of 3 regrowth stages of Kikuyu grass, Rhodes grass, Cynodon dactylon, Setaria sphacelata, Napier grass and Desmodium uncinatum and sweet potato vines, each at the flowering ... -
Sodium hydroxide and amonnia-treated maize stover as a roughage supplement to sheep and beef feedlot cattle.
(University of Nairobi, 1981)Trials on wether sheep fed sodium hydroxide-treated maize stover and untreated Rhodes grass hay and on Boran steers fed ammonia-treated maize stover and Rhodes grass hay indicated that sodium hydroxide-treated stover had ... -
Past and current trends of pasture research in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 1985)Agricultural production systems in Kenya and pasture research up to the 1970s and the present are discussed, and current research is described. Future research priorities are outlined. -
Forage intake by goats and sheep on semi-arid to arid pastures in northern Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 1984)Feeding behaviour of Somali Blackhead sheep and Small East African goats was observed twice monthly for 2 years. The pasture was Acacia tortilis woodland with a dwarf shrub layer dominated by Duosperma eremophilum. Mean ... -
Towards a National Biodiversity Conservation Framework:Policy Implications of Proceedings of the International Conference on Biodiversity, Land-use and Climate Change
(2010)Procceedings of the Biodiversity, Land Use and Climate Change conference, held on 15th to 17th September 2010 at Nairobi, Kenya, placed global biodiversity at US$ 33 trillion, measured as natural capital. This is higher ... -
Gender issues in energy policy and planning: perspectives from the Dakar workshop
(1996)This article offers an overview of an international workshop held in Senegal in 1994 on women's effective participation in energy decision making. The workshops aimed to exchange information on gender issues in energy ... -
First-Year Women in Science and Engineering Research: Attuning Programs to Benefit Average Students
(2001)Women in Science and Engineering Research (WISER) Program places first-year women students in science and engineering research laboratories at Penn State University. WISER is a retention program designed to intervene ...