A farmer displays macadamia nuts at an orchard in Murang'a County, Kenya, on April 5, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Yahui) Recognizing the potential of Kenya's high-quality raw materials, Jianglai invested nearly 30 million yuan (4 million U.S. dollars) in 2023 to establish a macadamia processing pla...
H. Timmis Jobs in Kenya: Opportunities and Challenges. Brighton, UK (2018) Google Scholar Ubink and Quan, 2008 J.M. Ubink, J.F. Quan How to combine tradition and modernity? Regulating customary land management in Ghana Land Use Policy, 25 (2008), pp. 198-213, 10.1016/j.landusepol....
Kenya: A Natural Outlook 6 Laikipia This is a comparison of Mbirikani to lion mortality in the Laikipia Plateau and the adjoining districts, into which wildlife population regularly moves. Laikipia District is a key wildlife habitat in Kenya and is unique in that it supports high densities of ...
International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) Agricultural Science and Technology Indicator (ASTI) database indicate that there is recognition of a slight improvement in gender balance in most AR4D institutions. In Kenya, for instance, between 2008 and 2016, the proportion of female researc...
Harvest smarter, not harder: Machine learning meets tomato farming,A research team led by Dr. David Helman from the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment at the
Misinformation has always existed, but it became a major preoccupation during the COVID-19 pandemic due to its ability to affect public health choices, decisions, and policy. In their article, “Misinformation in the media: Global coverage of GMOs 2019–
farmers may be able to foster labor productivity growth by affording the necessary capital inputs, to provide wage labor income, and to achieve integration in retail value chains towards domestic and export markets, such as evidenced in Thailand (Morris et al., 2009), Kenya (Neven et al., ...
Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana run a targeted input subsidy program (e.g., fertilizer voucher program) under which farmers who satisfy various essentials,for example, growing targeted crops (usually staple crops), having smallholdings, as well as being situated in specific area, are qualified and get...
The design of products containing competitive fungal strains has also been proposed for some mycotoxins (i.e. aflatoxins) and is currently employed in Benin and Kenya (Klueken et al., 2009; Probst et al., 2011). Similarly, the development of mycotoxin resistant crops is an alternative strategy...
With the Mumias sugar scheme in Kenya, concern was expressed that a shift to cane by small-scale producers could result in increased food insecurity (Tyler, 2008). Specifically, women lose access to lend for food crops and would also have less control over household income. Nevertheless, ...