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Potential of corporate social responsibility for poverty alleviation among contract sugarcane farmers in the Nzoia Sugarbelt, Western Kenya
(Springer Netherlands, 2009-10-01)
Although contract sugarcane farming is the most dominant and popular land use among farmers in Nzoia Sugarbelt, results from a 2007 study suggests that the intended goal of increasing farmers’ incomes seems to have failed. ...
Potential of bamboo as an alternative crop and livelihood strategy to smallholder tobacco farmers in South Nyanza region, Kenya
(Maseno University, Kenya School of Environment and Earth Sciences, Maseno, KENYA, 2009)
he presentation reviews successful crop diversification of 120 farm trial sites in Kenya, where bamboo seedlings were planted under the same growing conditions as tobacco crops in terms of soil, altitude, rainfall and ...
Carbon dioxide compensation points of some dicots of the Centrospermeae species and their ecological implications for agroforestry.
(ANSInet, Asian Network for Scientific Information, 2009)
The present studies on carbon dioxide compensation point (Γ) considered species from tropical semi-arid, snowline and saline ecosystems. The aim of the study was to establish the ecological range of the CO2 compensation ...
The Kakamega Forest medicinal plant resources and their utilization by the adjacent Luhya community.
(Medwell Online, 2009)
Kakamega Forest in Kenya is a rich natural setting endowed with abundant flora and fauna used by the local communities who once lived within the forest and those who now border it. There has been scarcity of information ...
Female gametophyte in two Kenyan species of Inversodicraea (Podostemaceae).
(Academic Journals, 2009)
The ontogeny and organization of the female gametophyte in I. bifurcata and Inversodicraea keniensis sp. nov. in Kenya were studied. The ontogeny of the female gametophyte was classified under the Apinagia type. The primary ...
Responses of clonal tea to location of production and plucking intervals
(Elsevier, 2009-07-01)
Tea is cultivated in diverse environments causing yield and quality differences in its beverages. To maximise yields and quality, agronomic practices should be optimised. But agronomic recommendations are uniform in different ...
Effects of water stress on growth and water relations of young grafted tea.
(Tea Research Foundation of Kenya, 2009)
The effects of soil water stress on some physiological parameters and dry matter partitioning (dm) were studied in grafted tea plants (Camellia sinensis L.) grown in containers and subjected to adequate and reduced water ...
Seed dormancy and appropriate germination protocol for Vernonia galamensis (Asteraceae).
(Kenya Forestry Research Institute, 2009)
ernonia galamensis (Cass.) Less., (Asteraceae) is a new potential industrial oil crop that originated in eastern and south-eastern parts of Ethiopia and is endemic primarily to East African countries. On a dry mass basis, ...