Soil erosion, continuous cultivation, reduced land productivity, population pressure on land, low income, inappropriate and inadequate use of farm inputs such as fertilizers are some of the interrelated problems experienced ...

With the arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) accounting for more than 70%of Kenya's total land area, and supporting an increasing population of both humans and animals, investment in water resources development will be a ...

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 ...

Since the United Nations Conference on Human Environment, of 1972, governments have made it a policy to integrate sustainable development concerns in national agenda at all levels. The universities globally have responded by ...

Low inherent soil fertility in the highly weathered and leached soils largely accounts for low and unsustained crop yields in most African countries. But in particular, the major nutrients, nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), ...

A groforestry is an age-old practice that contains a strong element of r\management. It is a collective name for land-use systems and technol . where woody perennials are deliberately used on the same land-management ...

We promote the view that agroforestry is not only a set of practices, but also about the processes in society that influence, and are influenced by, those practices. Recent advances in participatory approaches are heavily ...

The concept of sustainable development refers to development that 'meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs' (WCED, 1987). This has social, economic ...

This book ia an attempt to equip the extension personnel with soil fertlity packages that can easily be disseminated to farmer. The language is simple, while illustrations are used exclusively to explai technology usage ...

Ecosystems are dynamic entities made up of several interactive biotic and abiotic factors that determine their production and productivity levels. Equally complex are the ecological processes that govern ecosystem ...