The terms gender and development converge in various ways among them the consideration of varied roles that both sexes can play in development, the gendered distribution of benefits accruing from development together with ...

The HIV pandemic is deeply entrenched in many countries and has had dramatic effects on rural livelihoods. In poor rural communities only a few people have access to treatment due to high prices of conventional medicine, poor ...

Continuous decline in soil productivity is a major constraint to the improvement of livelihoods of smallholder farmers of Kenya. In highlands, levels of soil nitrogen, phosphorus and sometimes potassium are low and the ...

Declining soil and crop productivity is a major problem facing smallholder farmers in eastern and central highlands of Kenya. This is caused by continuous cropping without addition of adequate external soil fertility inputs. ...

Declining food production is a major concern in Kenya. This decline is brought about by continuous cultivation of soils without adequate external inputs. A multidisciplinary farmers' participatory trial aimed at offering ...

Education is acknowledged as the vehicle by which humanity establishes conceptual understanding. Alllevels of education (primary to Tertiary) are interlinked in a casual chain like pattern, with the preceding laying the ...

To appreciate the link between the environment and sustainable development, one needs to understand the basic concepts within ecology. While numerous literatures exists on this subject, ecology generally refers to the ...