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Farmers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards African Indigenous Vegetables in Kenya
(Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, 2016)Food and nutrition insecurity has been a major challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). With land frontier closing, farmers in SSA must intensify and diversify food production to alleviate food and nutrition ... -
Farming characteristics in urban districts of Nairobi county-Kenya.
(RUFORUM, 2014)Urban farming practitioners face challenges like lack of quality irrigation water, poorly decomposed manure, diverse inputs of unknown sources, unhealthy farm environment and abject poverty. All these contribute to production ... -
A Fatal Outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni Enteritis in a Colony of Vervet Monkeys in Kenya
(Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Science, 2017)In a group of 50 wild-caught vervet monkeys trapped for experimental studies, 23 developed severe diar-rhoea during the quarantine period. While 10 of these responded well to routine treatment with metronida-zole, kaomycin ... -
A fine-tuned vector-parasite dialogue in tsetse's cardia determines peritrophic matrix integrity and trypanosome transmission success
(PLoS Pathog, 2018)Arthropod vectors have multiple physical and immunological barriers that impede the development and transmission of parasites to new vertebrate hosts. These barriers include the peritrophic matrix (PM), a chitinous barrier ... -
Floral Genetics of African Nightshade (Solanum section Solanum)
(International Journal of Plant Developmental Biology, 2007-04-09)Solanum section Solanum, centering on the species commonly known as African nightshade, and botanically known as the “Solanum nigrum complex” is composed of a large number of morphogenetically distinct taxa, with certain ... -
Food Availability and Household Dietary Diversity in Ruiri-rwarera Area of Meru County in Kenya
(Science and Education Publishing, 2019)Food security broadly encompasses availability, accessibility and utilization of food. Household dietary diversity that relies on the number of food groups consumed over a given period has previously been used to measure ... -
Global distribution of alveolar and cystic echinococcosis
(Academic Press, 2017)Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) and cystic echinococcosis (CE) are severe helminthic zoonoses. Echinococcus multilocularis (causative agent of AE) is widely distributed in the northern hemisphere where it is typically maintained ... -
Glycemic Indices of Cassava and Sweet Potatoes Consumed in Western Kenya
(Food Science and Quality Management, 2017)Glycemic index (GI) is used to classify carbohydrate-rich foods especially those containing at least 15% carbohydrates on the basis of their ability to raise blood sugar. Interest on the GI of carbohydrate-rich foods ... -
Glycemic Responses to Stiff Porridge( ugali) Meals Consumed in Western Kenya
(International Knowledge Sharing Platform, 2017)Glycemic responses which have been measured in terms of glycemic indices (GIs) differ among various carbohydrate-rich foods. Despite the existence of a GI Table of most common foods, the records of the GIs of most Kenyan ... -
Green gold: refining crude Miraa (Catha edulis) into a real green gold
(Meru University of Science Technology, 2022-06)Miraa (Catha edulis) is a very lucrative psychoactive crop for the farmers in lower parts of Meru county and Embu county. However, its handling is unhygienic and it’s a perishable crop. Withering and drying leads to ... -
Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles by Rivina Humilis Leaf Exact to Tackle Growth of Brucella Species and other Perilous Pathogens
(Elsevier, 2020)Novel approaches are obligatory to treat chronic intracellular bacterial infectious diseases like Brucellosis specifically, are very complicated to deal with. The aim of the study to take upon nanotechnology approach to ... -
The growth and seed yield of five linseed ( Linum usitatissimum L.) varieties as influenced by nitrogen application
(Journal of Animal &Plant Sciences, 2014)The linseed plant produces linseed, an excellent source of health-promoting omega-3 fatty acid, alpha linolenic acid. Currently, there is negligible production of this crop in Kenya. This study aimed ... -
Growth and yield of tomato under alternate furrow irrigation in kibwezi, an “ASAL” area in eastern Kenya
(African Journal of Horticultural Science, 2014)Water saving irrigation technologies are key for crop production in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) considering the scarcity of water in these regions. A study was set up to test one such a technology, the alternate ... -
Growth Performance and Biochemical Analysis of the Genus Spirulina under different Physical and Chemical Environmental Factors.
(ResearchGate, 2015)Spirulina is useful to man in many aspects of life including health, food and cosmetics. In the present study, we aimed at investigating the optimum physical and chemical conditions that promote Spirulina mass production ... -
Growth, yield and quality of selected sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas [L.] lam.), lines under varying soil moisture conditions
(Meru University of Science and Technology, 2022-09-26)Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas [L.] has increasing potential as a food security crop in Kenya. However, its production is relatively low compared to its potential production attributed to drought conditions alongside use ... -
Haematology of experimental Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense infection in vervet monkeys
(African Journal of Health Sciences,, 2006)Haematological aberrations associated with human infective trypanosomes were investigated in the vervet monkey model of the Rhodesian sleeping sickness. Four monkeys were infected intravenously with 104 Trypanosoma brucei ... -
Haemorrhage of gross domestic product from disability-adjusted-life-years among 15-59 year olds in Kenya
(International Medical Society, 2018)This article estimates non-health gross domestic pro-duct (GDP) losses associated with Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY) lost among 15-59 year olds (most productive age bracket) in Kenya in 2015. This study ... -
Hematological changes in vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops) during eight months' adaptation to captivity
(American Journal of Primatology, 2007)This study investigated fluctuations in hematological values of 50 wild-caught vervet monkeys (African green monkeys, grivets, Chlorocebus aethiops) during habituation to captivity. The monkeys were categorized into four ... -
Hot Air Drying Process Promotes Lignification of Lentinus Edodes
(Elsevier, 2017)Hot air drying (HAD) is the most commonly used method for processing of postharvest Lentinus edodes in industry, which may promote lignification in the mushroom, affecting nutrition and edibility of L. edodes. The mechanism ... -
Human impacts on two wetlands in Nairobi National Park
(Asian Journal of Wetlands Ecology, 2012)Environmental gradients in physico-chemical properties and distance to human settlements at two wetlands (around Hyena and Nalogomon dams) in the Nairobi National Park were studied. Ordination showed that over 84% of the ...