Tasnifu hii imejishughulisha na suala la hadithi katikajamii ya Waigembe, na hasa ikizingatia nafasi ya hadithi hizo katika ujamiishaji. Hadithi zimedhihirisha kuwa na uhusiano wa karibu na utamaduni na mazingira yajamii ...
Agricultural extension is a critical agent for transfomiing subsistence farming to modernized and commercial agriculture through the dissemination of agricultural information to farmers. Despite this, extension services ...
The argument developed in this thesis is that of articulation of precolonial Kuria modes
of disease control and how this development drew the Kuria into the world capitalist nexus. It is
argued that it created conditions ...
Indigenous chicken (IC) are found wherever there are human settlements in Rwanda. Their preference to exotic chicken breeds by farmers could be attributed to their small production cost. scavenging ability, and adaptability ...
Poor husbandry, low use of improved inputs and limited access to technical advice are likely to be related to a farmer's education. Forty-six percent of Teso fanners are literate, but the literacy rate of men (66%) is ...
Food security and post-harvest handling are greatly undermined by insect pests which cause about 20% post-harvest losses of food grains in subsistence agriculture. Despite the enormous potential for pest control. the ...
Porcine cysticercosis (PC) infection is a zoonotic disease of public health concern globally, caused by Taenia solium larvae. The prevalence of PC infection is highest where domestic pigs scavenge for food in poor sanitary ...
One of the biggest challenges facing the third world today is high levels of poverty among its population of which Kenya is not an exception. Different ways of poverty alleviation are applied ranging from political, ...
ABSTRACT
The Kenyan economy relies on agricultural production and tourism industry with the agricultural
ector contributing up to 26% of its GDP. The performance of the sector majorly depends on the
efficiency and ...
This thesis is a critique of individual fulfilment as a goal of university education among the undergraduates in Kenya. The statement of the problem was that the Kenyan University education system does not seem to provide ...
Water is a scarce natural resource with no known replacement. lnsufficient precipitation in arid and semi-arid regions of East Africa contribute to less water available to crops. Appropriate management ofagricultural water ...
Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto mosquito larvae are known to thrive in non-polluted environments. However, the larvae have adapted to heavy metal polluted habitats at a significant biological cost. The molecular processes ...
Kimurto, Paul Kiprotich(Egerton University, 2008-09)
Breeders have traditionally applied methods where grain yield comparison is used as the main selection criterion for drought tolerance. The approach has often succeeded in the absence of in-depth knowledge about ...
Annually, diarrhoea accounts for the deaths of over 1.6 million children under 5 or about 15% of all deaths of children under 5 in developing countries. A study was carried out between January 2005 and April 2006 in 350 ...
Despite the fact that the overall benefits of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first half of infancy have well been established, especially for mother-infant pairs in low social economic status, the rates are low in ...
The loss of key resources/areas in Baringo County, Kenya, essential for the ecological functioning of the pastoral and agro-pastoral systems, has affected livelihoods of the communities leading to hunger and poverty. The ...
Presses produce a variety of similar articles in large quantities through press work operations. In Kenya, many manufacturers have manually operated Open-front Power Presses which have low productivity and attendant ...
Mironga, John Momanyi(Egerton University, 2008-10)
Water hyacinth tfichhornia crassipes) is an invasive aquatic macrophyte associated with major inagxir-‘e economic and ecological impacts in the Lake Naivasha region since the plant’s inz\‘L:1:'ic-2 into the lake in 1986. ...
Mbuthia, Stephen Karori(Egerton University, 2015-03)
Polyphenolic fractions in tea are potent bio active molecules with health benefits including potential anticancer properties. However, the mechanism of action of tea as an anticancer or chemo-preventive agent is poorly ...