Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Local bureaucrats as bricoleurs. The everyday implementation practices of county environment officers in rural Kenya
(2015)Bricolage in natural resource governance takes place through the interplay of a variety of actors. This article explores the practices of a group whose agency as bricoleurs has received little attention, namely the government ... -
Rural development & Institutional Policy
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Prospects For Bio-Fortification Reducing Micronutrient Deficiency In Kenya: Lessons From Sugar Fortification Programmes
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Food fortification has proven to be an important strategy for addressing micronutrient deficiency that includes vitamin A, iron and zinc deficiency in most developing countries. Development efforts have thus focused on ... -
Senior Research Fellow & Thematic Head: Language, Culture & Society
(University of Nairobi, 1994) -
Determinants of E-Services Use in Higher Education: A case of a Kenyan University Academic and Non Academic Staff
(University of Nairobi, 2014)The establishment of electronic services (e-services) has been an important policy goal in many universities worldwide. This notwithstanding, staff access to e-services and its reliability still remains an issue of concern ... -
Integrated management of root-knot nematodes in a tomato-maize crop system using the biocontrol fungus Pochonia clamydosporia
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Integrated approaches are fast gaining popularity in the management of root-knot nematodes (RKN). This study was undertaken to assess the potential of integrating a biological control agent (BCA, Pochonia chlamydosporia ... -
Morphological and Physiological Measurement of the Stay-Green Trait in Transgenic and Non-Transgenic Cassava under Green-House Water Stress Conditions
(University of Nairobi, 2013)Drought stress is the major abiotic factor that limits cassava productivity in many agro-ecological regions of sub-saharan Africa. In this study, stay-green trait in two transgenic cassava genotypes (transformed with ... -
Camel milk hygiene
(University of Nairobi, 2014) -
Potato Production Challenges in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2013) -
Claw Disorders In Dairy Cows Under Smallholder Zero-grazing Units
(University of Nairobi, 2015) -
Abundance of indigenous rhizobia nodulating cowpea and common bean in central Kenyan soils
(University of Nairobi, 2011)The abundance of indigenous soil rhizobia can determine whether a legume would respond to inoculation or not. This study was therefore conducted to determine the population size of indigenous soil rhizobia nodulating ... -
Resistance to Iris yellow spot virus and onion thrips among onion varieties grown in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Iris yellow spot virus (IYSV) vectored by Thrips tabaci threatens profitable onion production in eastern Africa. Host plant resistance is considered to be the first line of defence against insect-transmitted virus diseases. ... -
The Human Dimensions Studies on the East African Lake Regions: A Review
(2002)Several studies have been carried out under the auspices of the IDEAL (International Decade for East African Lakes) programme on the physical and biological factors affecting the East African lakes. These include aspects ... -
The Status and the Effects of Food Insecurity on the Livelihood Opportunities and Options in Semi–arid Parts of Makueni District, Kenya
(2013)Makueni district has experienced food insecurity over the years due to a combination of physical and human factors. The problems of food insecurity in the district and its implication have profound effects on the livelihoods ... -
Homogenizing continental Africa and its diaspora through lessons on African oral social culture
(2014)From time immemorial the largely orate African society has educated its members through oral literature; teaching society’s history and culture: the oral traditions, beliefs and values. The aim of teaching these tenets ... -
Making decisions on health care: household management of malaria and visceral leishmaniasis (Kala-azar) in Baringo, Kenya
(1995)When confronted with illness, households have to make decisions on the type of health cars to seek. Studies in social medicine have in recent years attempted to delineate the factors which influence illness behaviour (health ... -
Towards Plane Hurwitz Numbers
(University of Nairobi, 2014)The main objects of this thesis are branched coverings obtained as projection from a point in P^2. Our general goal is to understand how a given meromorphic function f: X -> P^1 can be induced from a composition X --> C ... -
East Africa’s dangerous dance with the past: important lessons the new East African community has not learned from the defunct
(University of Nairobi, 2014)This paper argues that while the framers of the new East African Community, cognizant of the problems of the defunct one, set out to create a new organization that would avoid the pitfalls of the old they were not bold ... -
Selection for pod quality, pod yield and disease resistance in climbing snap beans
(University of Nairobi, 2012)Climbing snap beans have the potential of increasing productivity and competitiveness in domestic and export markets, but suitable varieties with market demanded p od quality characteristics and preferred agronomic ...