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The impact of changing land use patterns on the numbers and distribution of livestock and wild herbivores in the Tana River District, Kenya
(1992-02)
The intent of this study was to examine the impact of
changing land use patterns on the numbers and distribution
of livestock and wild herbivores in the Tana River District,
Kenya.
A multi-method approach of aerial ...
Planning and management for storm water and sullage in environmentally vulnerable informal low income urban communities
(1996-10)
This study was carried out in Daraja Mbili within Kisii municipality and concerns environmental consequences of uncontrolled stormwater and sullage in environmentally vulnerable quasi-legal urban low income settlements. ...
Identification, pathogenicity and disease progress of fungi associated with water hyacinth Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms in Kenya.
(1999)
A survey of plant pathogenic fungi associated with naturally infected water
hyacinth tEichhornia crassipesi was conducted at 'Lake Victoria, Lake Naivasha
and Nairobi dam in Kenya. Twenty fungal isolates belonging to ...
Epidemiology and control of gastrointestinal parasite infections of dairy cattle in Kiambu district, Kenya and in Denmark with emphasis on parasitic gastroenteritis
(1998)
a) Field survey
The present study was designed to establish a profile of gastrointestinal (GI) parasites
and to determine the influence of season, farm, age and sex on their prevalence, burden and
distribution in dairy ...
Environmental Risk Factors of Childhood Mortality in Kenya: Evidence and Policy Implications
(1992)
What is the impact of environmental factors on child death? How do
these intervening variables operate to bring about exposure and
susceptibility to infections and or malnutrition and finally child
death?
The broad ...
Studies of organochlorine pesticide residues in some freshwater and estuarine fish in Kenya
(1990)
Organochlorine pesticides persist in the environment and
accumulate in aquatic organisms. Although the chemicals have
been used in Kenya since the 1940's, information on the occurrence
of their residues in fish is still ...
Beef cattle marketing in Baringo District, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1994)
The study aims at determining the factors that influence competition and pricing
efficiency in the Baringo beef marketing system.
It starts by describing the marketing system in the district and then goes on to show ...
Land degradation and its control in the Kibwezi area, Kenya
(1990-01)
Most of our semi-arid land is threatened with increased land deterioration due to
changes in land use especially in areas where soils have sealing properties which
hinder infiltration of rain- water. The study was carried ...
Determinants of Nuptiality Patterns in Kenya
(1999-02)
The focus of this study is to establish the patterns of nuptiality and to
examine the factors which determine the patterns. The analysis is conducted at
various levels, first at national level in which the general trend ...