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Hydro-Economic Inventory Models for Planning and Evaluation of Farming Water Efficiency in a Semi-Arid Watershed of Kenya
(Journal of Agri - Food and Applied Sciences, 2013-12)
Water scarcity and its unsustainable use are threatening farming efficiency in most “Arid et semi -arid lands” (ASALs) of Kenya. More significantly, these factors lead to recurrent food shortage in Machakos District of ...
Climate Change, Excess Land-Uses and Farmers’ Water Demand: An Induction from Smallholder Farms In Muooni Dam Site, Kenya.
(Journal of Agri - Food and Applied Sciences, 2013-12)
Erratic rainfalls, heavy winds pressure and erosional processes due to El Niño floods and droughts are major causes of as farmlands degradation in the catchment, as well as Muoonidam siltation and its water storage capacity ...
Inventory Models for Evaluating Water and Food Security: Approaches and Lessons from Smallholder Farms of Muooni Catchment, Machakos District, Kenya
(Journal of Agri-Food and Applied Sciences (JAAS), 2013-10)
This study attempts to explain food shortage in a water scarce Muooni catchment using operational research inventory models. It seeks specifically to evaluate farmers" water economic order quantity (EOQ), limit average ...
Hydro-Geomorphologic Impact Assessment and Economic Viability of Smallholder Farms In Muooni Catchment, Machakos District.
(Journal of Agri - Food and Applied Sciences, 2013-12)
Water depletion, sheets, rills, inter-rills and big gullies have an impact on water and land productivity in a catchment area, endangering thus substantial wealth creation in agriculture. An assessment of 66 farms selected ...