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Maina, M.; Leena, T.; Steffen, A.; Aritua, V.; Tushemereirwe, W. K.; Bandyopadhyay, R.
(The American Phytopathological Society, 2009-05)
Bananas are important in the Great Lakes region, not only in Uganda, but also in adjacent countries, where they are both a food security and a cash crop (17). Food security studies reveal that in Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi, ...
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Mwangi, M.; Tripathi, L.; Abele, S.; Aritua, V.; Tushemereirwe, W. K.; Bandyopadhyay, R.
(American Phytopathological Society May 2009, Volume 93, Number 5 Pages 440-451, 2009-05)
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Munyao, William Muthui
(Kenyatta University, 2015-11)
Maize (Zea mays) is a preferred staple as well as a cash crop in Sub-Sahara Africa, contributing to 34-36% of the daily caloric intake in Kenya. Maize production is constrained by several factors among them biotic factors. ...
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Shisanya, C.A.
(Asian Network for Scientific Information, 2003)
Tepary bean (TB), a drought tolerant bean variety has become popular among poor small-scale farmers in semi-arid Kenya, where it is predominantly intercropped with maize. Field experiments were conducted on effect of ...
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Miricho, Moses Ngatia
(2014-02-19)
Tourism in Kenya is not only cyclic, but suffers heavily from national and international politics. The result is an uncertain future for the country‟s hotel-bed occupancy. Part of the bed-occupancy solution may be found ...
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Kotikot, Susan Malaso
(Servir Global, 2014-05-09)
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Ndoro, Webber
(2012-02-06)
Cultural heritage management in African and in other non-western societies, has mainly been concerned with the preservation and presentation of archaeological monuments primarily from a technical point of view. In Zimbabwe ...
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Chege, Fatuma N.; Casely-Hayford, L.; Arnot, Madeleine; Dovie, D. A.
(Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty, 2009)
Youth citizenship is now on the international agenda. This paper explores what that concept might mean in the context of two African nations: Kenya and Ghana. Post independence, both countries focused on rethinking the ...
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Kyany'a, Bernadette.
(Kenyatta University, 2014)
Youths the world over, are a big force to reckon with due to their sheer numbers. They
have been known to bring change through peaceful organised groups like the YMCA as
well through war and involvement in violence by ...
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Mukabwa, Rosemary Khitienyi
(2012-05-04)
Youth unemployment has remained a serious problem in Kenya. Relevant education system and skill-training programmes such as the Youth Polytechnics have been initiated to solve this problem. YPS were established to train ...
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Metto, Kipkemboi Wilson
(Kenyatta University, 2015-08)
Every year, over 550,000 pupils sit for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education and only
about 70% secure admission in secondary schools. As a remedy, Youth Polytechnics (YPs)
provide alternative avenues as institutions ...
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Mapunda, Tuzo Pasiens
(2012-11-29)
The HlV/AIDS situation in Tanzania continues to pose a grave challenge to the government and the people as well. Voluntary Counseling and Testing of HIV/AIDS is one of the interventions which have demonstrated remarkable ...
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Kihara, C. W.
(2015-04)
The study was conducted in Nairobi National park in Nairobi County and focused on assessing youth travel as potential market segment for the tourism industry in Kenya. Exploratory and descriptive survey design was adopted ...
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Kotikot, Susan Malaso
(Servir Global, 2014-03-20)
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Oyore, Millicent A.
(2013-04-18)
This study sought a textual evaluation ofDawood's style in his sampled prose narratives.
It was a linguistic study of literary texts, using linguistic theories of the social semiotics,
the bottom-up top-down and the ...
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Hassanali, Ahmed; Samita, Fidelis N.; Ndiege, I. O.; Lwande, W.
(Beilstein-Institut, 2013)
The bioassay-guided purification of Zanthoxylum paracanthum (Rutaceae) extracts led to the isolation of three new alkaloids, namely 1-hydroxy-10-methoxy-7H-dibenzo[de,g]quinolin-7-one (zanthoxoaporphine A, 2), 1-hydroxy- ...
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Waceke, J.W.; Bumbarger, D. J.; Subbotin, S. A; Baldwin, J.G; Mundo-Ocampo, M.
(Journal of Nematode Morphology and Systematics, 2005)
Zeldia spannata sp. n. is described from the Mojave Desert, California. The new species shares with congeners a single guard process in each primary axil and asymmetrical triangular-shaped lips; it differs from them by the ...
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Mbugua, Wachira Gerald
(Kenyatta University, 2014)
About 17.2 million people in Kenya have no access to clean water. The major factors contributing to lack of clean water include rapid population growth, droughts, forest degradation, poor management of water supply and ...
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Ferguson, E.; Chege, P.; Kimiywe, J.; Wiesmann, D.; Hotz, C.
(JohnWiley & Sons Ltd, 2016)
Poor quality infant and young child (IYC) diets contribute to chronic under-nutrition. To design effective IYC
nutrition interventions, an understanding of the extent to which realistic food-based strategies can improve ...
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