What we urgently need is for national and county governments to invest enough budgets in field extension services to inculcate modern crop husbandry practices among our farmers. As much as 50 percent of animal feed inputs for our fast-growing livestock sector (dairy, pork, poultry e...
The county is predominantly inhabited by pastoralist communities, constituting 80% of the population with nomadic pastoralists’ lifestyle centered around their livestock. Marsabit County has a maternal mortality ratio of 811/100,000 live births compared to the national estimate of 355/100,000, as ...
For instance, livestock has long been the measure of wealth here, but the arrival of large quantities of cash has altered this. “When we came, we established a money system; not deliberately but just by our presence,” says Okore. According to Ngasike Akuam, a ...
The National Water Master Plan 2030 The National Water Master Plan (NWMP) 2030 (formerly the NWMP 1992), which incorporates the relevant elements of Vision 2030, is the key document against which the strategies are benchmarked. It aims to develop the country’s available surface and groundwater...
place in a way harmful to the human as well as natural environment. It is, thus, sug- gested to trigger the change from an insecure mode of life to a safer one by the pro- vision of a stable and safe water supply for human and livestock consumption and, wherever possible, also for...
International Livestock Research Institute JMP: Joint Monitoring Program NACOSTI: National Council of Science and Technology-Kenya NGOs: Non-governmental organisations SDGs: Sustainable Development Goals VIP: Ventilated Improved Pit latrine WHO: World Health Organisation ...
private rights over the various technical production processes, for example: inventions, patents, utility models, semiconductor products, (integrated circuits or "chips"), designs or models, brands of agricultural producers, livestock, forestry and extractive industry, creators or antifes, trademarks, lo...
Livestock production is an important source of livelihood in the study area. Smallholder farmers practice dairy farming, keeping an average of 5 dairy cattle (mainly local breeds) as part of mixed farming [15]. Beef production is carried out in the lowlands to the north-west by large scale ...
Lakes Baringo and Bogoria are located in Baringo County whose economy relies heavily on livestock which contributes 70% of its total income and supports 90% of its population [9]. Baringo County experiences frequent droughts; therefore, overgrazing can put pressure on land resulting to desert-...
The weather conditions allow small scale agriculture where farmers engage in crop farming and livestock rearing. The sampling sites are shown in the map of Figure 1b. Seven of the houses sampled are made of wood and iron sheets roofs while R5 is made of mud and an iron sheet roof, and ...