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 HIV pandemic has had dramatic effects on rural livelihoods in Africa. In rural communities only a few people have access to treatment due to high prices of medicine, poor health infrastructure, and long distances to ...

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 ...

We established hedges of calliandra, leucaena, napier, and their combinations along the contours on slopes of between 5 and 40% as options for soil and nutrient management on steep arable landscapes. Hedge biomass was ...

Smallholder farms in Central Highlands of Kenya exhibit a high degree of heterogeneity, determined by a complex set of socio-economic and biophysical factors. The farms consist of multiple plots managed differently in terms ...

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), ...