There is an increasing recognition of the role of climate change adaptation among smallholder farmers in rain-fed agriculture in Africa. Collective action among smallholder farmers has been suggested as influencing local ...

An ethnobotanical survey was undertaken in Loita forest from 2012 to 2015 to document species richness and compile the first comphrensive plant species checklist of Loita forest. The forest is located in Narok County, ...

Climate variability and change has been considered to be posing the greatest threat to agriculture and food security in many of the poor, agriculture-based countries in Africa. In recognition of this, an assessment of ...

Field experiment was conducted for two seasons to evaluate the effects of different maize and soybean intercropping patterns on its yields and economics at Embu and Meru Counties, Kenya. The experiment was arranged in a ...

This paper estimates price and fuel expenditure elasticities of demand by applying the linear Approximate Almost Ideal Demand system (LA-AIDS) to 3665 households sampled across Kenya in 2009. The results indicate that motor ...

Declining land productivity is a major problem facing smallholder farmers today in Sub-Saharan Africa, and as a result increase in maize grain yield has historically staggered behind yield gains that have been achieved ...

The effectiveness of tree-leaf biomass as a source of N to crops in agroforestry systems depends on the rate at which crops can obtain N from the biomass. A study was conducted to determine the fate of 15N labeled, ...

Floristic composition and growth forms were studied in central Isecheno nature reserve part of the main tropical rainforest using transects and systematic quadrats following compass direction from January to December, ...

Climate variability and change has been considered to be posing the greatest threat to agriculture and food security in many of the poor agriculture-based countries in Africa. In recognition of this, an assessment of climate ...

This paper uses cross-sectional survey data to evaluate the farmers’ perception and knowledge of health risks in urban wastewater irrigation in Nairobi, Kenya. In order to identify the determinants of farmers’ perception ...