Browsing Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM) by Title
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Unbowed: A memoir
(University of Nairobi, 2008)Unbowed tells the story of how a girl from the Central Highlands of Kenya became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in East and Central Africa and head a university department in Kenya. We witness Professor Maathai’s numerous ... -
Unbowed: one woman's story
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Use of cover crops to improve soil productivity: preliminary studies using tropical velvet bean
(University of Nairobi,college of agriculture and veterinary sciences,, 2000)Initial observations of a two-phase trial on the use of Mucuna deeringianum [M. deeringiana] to improve soil productivity are presented. In phase one, 42 seeds were sown at Kabete, Kenya, in October 1990 with 89% germination ... -
Use of soil survey information in soil and water management.
(University of Nairobi,college of agriculture and veterinary sciences,, 2000)The results of soil surveys at the ICIPE research site at Ungoye, South Nyanza, and the Ngori Ngori toposequence in Narok, Kenya, are discussed to provide insight into the applicability of soil survey information to soil ... -
Use of test day milk yield records for genetic evaluation in Sahiwal cattle.
(University of NairobiFaculty Of Veterinary Science, 2006-08)Test day milk yield (TMY) records from the first three lactations were used to estimate genetic and phenotypic parameters in the Sahiwal cattle in Kenya, using animal models in multivariate analyses. In the first analysis, ... -
Using ICT to Integrate Smallholder Farmers into Agricultural Value Chain: The Case of DrumNet Project in Kenya
(2013)This article examines an ICT-based intervention (known as the DrumNet project) that has succeeded in integrating smallholder-resource and poor farmers into a higher value agricultural chain. The article assesses the design ... -
Vertebrates: Structures and Functions (a book).
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A view from the grassroots
(University of Nairobi, 1995) -
A voice for Earth: American writers respond to the Earth Charter
(University of NairobiThe Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies, 2008) -
Water Breathing: the Inaugural Respiratory Process
(Springer Berlin HeidelbergFaculty of Veterinary Medicine Dept. of Veterinary Anatomy, University of NairobiFaculty of Health Sciences Dept. of Anatomical Sciences, The University of Witwatersrand, 7 York Road, Parktown, 2193, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1998)By way of the hydrologic cycle, water on Earth is believed to have remained unchanged in amount and character for about 3000 million of years (Leopold and Davis 1968). From the current concepts of paleobiology, it is ... -
Why the early promise for rapid increases in maize productivity in Kenya was not sustained: lessons for sustainable investment in agriculture
(2005)The influence of climatic, policy and institutional-related (infrastructure, technology, institutional support) factors on the decline in maize output and yields and the subsequent deepening and broadening of food poverty ... -
WTP or WTA, or Both? Experiences from Two Choice Experiments for Early Planning Stages. In: Meyerhoff J., N. Lienhoop and P. Elsasser, eds. State Preference Methods for Environmental Valuation: Applications from Germany and Austria
(2007)The optimised design of project alternatives is a main challenge for the early stage of any real-world planning process. For participatory conservation planning procedures as required, e.g., by the CBD (Convention on ... -
Young people, education, and sustainable development : exploring principles, perspectives, and praxis
(Wageningen Academic PublishersThe Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies, 2009)Young people have an enormous stake in the present and future state of Earth. Almost half of the human population is under the age of 25. If young people?s resources of energy, time, and knowledge are misdirected towards ...