Sugarcane and agroforestry farming in western Kenya : a comparative study of different farming systems in the Nyando districtIn the past 50 years, the demand for food, fuel, timber, fibre and fresh water has increased in East Africa. Because of t...
During the COVID 19 pandemic, when people and goods movement was restricted, Kenyan farmers’ access to Omena supplies from Western Kenya and feed protein supply from international markets was impaired. BSF is a resistant insect species that can survive and multiply in various environmental ...
Kenya - Farming, Livestock, Fisheries: Agriculture plays an important role in Kenya’s economy. Although its share of gross domestic product (GDP) has declined—from more than two-fifths in 1964 to less than one-fifth in the early 21st century—agricultu
"We have been to Coast, Eastern, Western, Rift Valley and some parts of Central Kenya, meeting farmers in groups and as individuals," said Muraya. "And we already have so many of them growing pumpkin. And it is very encouraging." For decades, many Kenyan communities regarded pumpkin as a...
The promotion of agroforestry as a mitigation practice requires an understanding of the economic benefits and its acceptability to farmers. This work examines the agroecological and socio-economic factors that condition profitability and acceptance of agroforestry by smallholder farmers in Western Kenya. ...
Contract Farming and the Peasantry: Cases from Western Kenya. Review of African Political Economy, 23: 9-36.Buch-Hansen, Mogens & Henrik Secher Marcuseen, 1982, `Contract farming and the peasantry: cases from western Kenya', Review of African Political Economy, 23, 9-36...
alvarezii farming would still be a profitable and attractive venture in Kenya, but not E. denticulatum because of negative economic indicators.doi:10.4314/WIOJMS.V10I1JG WakibiaJ OchiewoJJ BoltonWestern Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science...
is an important food crop in western Kenya, mostly grown by smallholder farmers in complex and risky cropping systems. Trends in popula... Achieng,J.,Ouma,... - 《American Journal of Experimental Agriculture》 被引量: 4发表: 2013年 Understanding Organic Food Qualities in the Global South: ...
Economic performance of the `push-pull' technology for stemborer and Striga control in smallholder farming systems in western Kenya Free-range pig farming is common amongst the small-scale farmers in western Kenya. In order to determine the characteristics of this type of production sys... Khan,...
Soil erodibility control and soil carbon losses under short term tree fallows in western Kenya Field experiment was conducted on two farms in western Kenya (Masai and Luero) to assess the effects of: (i) short-term improved fallows on runoff, soil an... A Boye,A Albrecht 被引量: 23发表...