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Young people, education, and sustainable development : exploring principles, perspectives, and praxis
(Wageningen Academic Publishers, 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 ...
Nerica: The New Rice for Africa: A Compendium
(Africa Rice Center (WARDA, 2008)
Pigeonpea breeding: objectives, experiences, and strategies for Eastern Africa.
(Univeristy of Nairobi, 2001)
This paper focuses on yield-limiting factors and breeding objectives, development of pigeon pea breeding programmes, a review of breeding programmes in the region and future prospects and strategies for pigeon pea breeding.
Sensitive response and resistance to bery disease (Colletotrichum kahawae) of two coffee varieties (Coffea arabica and C. canephora) : histological comparisons of interactions.
(2007)
Trials were set up in three districts of central Kenya to evaluate organic and mineral sources of nutrients and their effects on maize yields. The experiments were set up during the long rains 2004 with fifteen different ...
Fifty key thinkers on the environment
(Routledge, 2001)
Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy Palmer has assembled a team of over twenty expert contributors to summarize and analyze the thinking of fifty diverse ...
Community-based natural resource management
(University of Nairobi., 2007)
This technical note gives a brief introduction to community-based natural resource management
(CBNRM) and how this concept may be used as a development strategy. CBNRM has the triple
objective of poverty reduction, natural ...
Commercial distribution of tree seed in small bags - results from a pilot and action research project in Nepal
(Forest & Landscape Denmark (FLD), 2005)
Access to quality tree seed implies specific problems for tree planting farmers in developing
countries. Since most of them are smallholders, they need only few seed. Distribution networks usually do not exist for such ...
Guidelines for distribution of tree seed in small bags: small quantities and high quality
(University of Nairobi., 2007)
It has been assessed that the majority of trees planted in developing countries are planted by farmers.
On-farm tree planting is likely to gain importance in the future as access to natural forests
and trees is getting ...
Participatory assessment of farmers' experiences of termite problems in agroforestry in Tororo District
(University of Nairobi, 2005-01)
As agroforestry technologies are developed and promoted, there is a need to integrate indigenous knowledge
about pest identification and management techniques into the scaling-up process in order to improve farmers’
pest ...