Browsing Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM) by Title
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Comparative Pulmonary Morphology and Morphometry: The Functional Design of Respiratory Systems
(Department of Veterinary Anatomy, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, 1994)Though there are assertions that life is possible without oxygen, such states can only exist for definite periods and in simplest of life forms (Hochachka et al. 1973; Herreid 1980; Portner et al. 1985). Intestinal parasites ... -
Compliance with International food safety standards: Determinants, costs and implications of EurepGap standards on profitability among smallholders' horticultural exporters in Kenya
(2010)Horticulture provides many developing countries with opportunities for export diversification, poverty alleviation and rural development. However, stringent public and private-sector food-safety standards, for example ... -
Conditions for achieving sustained agricultural intensification in Africa: evidence from Kenya
(2011)This chapter examines the conditions for achieving sustained agricultural intensification using evidence from micro- and macro-data from Kenya, as well as the six 'I's that represent significant proximate variables influencing ... -
Contributed Articles (papers) in the ITDG and IIRR Ethnoveterinary Medicine in Kenya
(University of Nairobi,Veterinary Pathology, Microbiology & Parasitology,, 1996) -
Contributor In: A Practical Manual On Animal Physiology
(University of NairobiDepartment of Veterinary Anatimy and Pysiology, 1991) -
Controlling field pests. In “ Managing Dryland resources: an extension manual for Eastern and Southern Africa
(University of Nairobi,college of agriculture and veterinary sciences, 2001) -
Coping with drought in Kenya: national and local strategies.
(Lynne RiennerCollege of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, 1989)Lessons learned from the 1984/85 drought in Kenya are described in this book, with the purpose of making them available to researchers, planners and managers who will be called upon to reduce vulnerability to famine and ... -
A crisis in power
(2005)Energy is not only a basic need in itself, but is required for services, such as transport, industrialization, education, health, water, and communications, that release people from time- and energy-consuming tasks and ... -
Dairy Goat Milk Hygiene; Analysis in Mt Kenya Region
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Goat rearing is a common practice in Africa and goats are normally referred to as the ATMs of poor people as they can be sold off to pay for household needs. Dairy goats on the other hand, are becoming popular mainly because ... -
The Desert Margins Programme Approaches in Upscaling Best-Bet Technologies in Arid and Semi-arid Lands in Kenya
(Springer NetherlandsDesert Margins Programme, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), Nairobi, KenyaUniversity of Nairobi, Nairobi, KenyaKenya Forestry Research Institute, Nairobi, KenyaKenyatta University, Nairobi, KenyaKenya Agricultural Research Institute, Kiboko Research Centre, Makindu, Kenya, 2011)Kenya’s land surface is primarily arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) which account for 84% of the total land area. The Desert Margins Programme (DMP) in Kenya has made some contribution to understanding which technology ... -
Detailed Soil Survey of the Voo Research Sub-Station (Kitui District)
(University of Nairobi,college of agriculture and veterinary sciences,, 1986)Three folded maps inserted. Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-26). -
Determination of the effect of nutrient sources on enhancement in western kenya
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Development of a multi-disciplinary approach to improve the management of soil fertility by smallholder farmers: experience of the TSBF programme.
(University of Nairobi,college of agriculture and veterinary sciences,, 2000)This paper outlines the development of a new methodology to modify and improve the indigenous practices of soil fertility management in Eastern and Southern Africa and suggests requirements for involvement by collaborating ... -
Development of a streamflow model for rural catchments in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi,college of agriculture and veterinary sciences,, 1993)A stream flow model was developed for use in rural catchments in Kenya. In the model the physical environment was divided into three zones: the unsaturated zone (consists of multiple hydrological response units defined by ... -
Development of livestock production systems in Africa.
(University of Nairobi.Departrment of Animal Production, 2004)
