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2024-03-29T05:09:02ZPremium Sweet Potato Pumpkin Flour
http://erepository.kibu.ac.ke/handle/123456789/2310
Premium Sweet Potato Pumpkin Flour
Kennedy, Kelvin
Food insecurity still remains a global threat due to rapid population growth in the 21st century,
whereby world census is predicted to rise up to 100 billion by the year 2050. This means further
efforts should be put in place to ensure enough food for this “WANTING” population. Therefore,
my research aims to eradicate malnutrition and post-harvest losses especially in developing
countries through food preservation, culture and safety hence making it easier to handle and
transport, palatable, digestible and long shelf life to make it available and affordable even during
food scarce periods. Sweet potatoes and pumpkins are locally available and adaptable to a wide
range of ecological conditions. Since sweet potatoes and pumpkins are perishable crops, this
research aims to preserve them and making them available and affordable even during their off
seasons and food scarce periods. When they reach maturity they are harvested, washed
thoroughly, peeled, chopped into small pieces, dried and grinded to make fine flour which is then
packed ready for consumption for cake or porridge making. The flour is durable as compared to
its raw materials, easy to handle and transport from one region to another, easily digestible,
palatable and it supplies all the necessary nutrients for normal body growth and development
such as starch, proteins, minerals and vitamins. This research project is environmental friendly,
uses the locally available food materials which are naturally preserved to obtain the real taste and
nutrition hence achieving food security which is among our big four national agenda alongside
education, proper housing and universal health care as we focus on VISION 2030 when our
country will be industrialized.
2019-06-13T00:00:00ZConservation and Use of African Indigenous Vegetables for Food Security: Case Study of Tuuti Marakaru Ward Bungoma Western Kenya
http://erepository.kibu.ac.ke/handle/123456789/2309
Conservation and Use of African Indigenous Vegetables for Food Security: Case Study of Tuuti Marakaru Ward Bungoma Western Kenya
Toroitich, Jane; Wanambisi, Margaret
Bungoma County is endowed with agro climatic conditions suitable for the cultivation of a wide
range of African indigenous vegetables. The value of traditional vegetables in food security has
not been given sufficient attention in the county. During dry season indigenous vegetables are
very expensive and unavailable hence an alternative way of enhancing its availability is through
conservation. Consequently, there are no formal interventions that seek to encourage people to
use traditional vegetables as sources of essential nutrients. This paper gives results on use and
conservation of indigenous vegetables by households obtained from a cross sectional surveys
carried out in Kanduyi Division, Tuuti Marakaru ward, western Kenya. Conservation was
measured by; availability of IV at local market stalls during dry and rainy seasons in the markets
and household gardens, use was measured using Likert scale questionnaire. 186 local market stalls
were purposively sampled and 80 households drawn from the population. Data was collected
during the two seasons December to March and March to May, 2019using market questionnaires
and summarized using tables and charts. Of the 186 market stalls only 11.8% and 1.1% of them
had indigenous vegetables (9 varieties) during the two seasons respectively. Indigenous vegetables
were only cultivated by 5.9% and 0.8% of the households for the two seasons respectively; these
included only six varieties and cowpea leaves (Vignaunguilata) were the most popular.
Consumption of up to 9 varieties of indigenous vegetables was observed, with cow peas, jute
mallow and amaranths reporting more than 50% consumption when the IV were plenty during
the month of March to May and reporting less than 10% during the month of December to March.
This paper recommends creation of awareness by educating the caregiver’s mothers and smallholder
farmers on use and Conservation of Indigenous Vegetable on food security, nutrition and
health.
2019-06-13T00:00:00ZThe Wildlife Resource as an Enabler in Ensuring Food Security in Kenya
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The Wildlife Resource as an Enabler in Ensuring Food Security in Kenya
Kassilly, Fredrick
Wildlife is Kenya’s foremost natural resource. Its values to the country are varied and include
both material and non-material attributes. Whereas potential for consumptive use of the wildlife
resource as a source of food exists, and whereas established advantages of wildlife over domestic
animals as a meat source for Kenyans are known, exploitation of wildlife for meat remains largely
a virgin aspect of its management in the country. The Government’s pronouncement of ensuring
national food security as one of its “Big Four” agenda calls for deliberate efforts to consider
potential sources of human nutrition including wildlife. Granted that Kenya’s wildlife is a common
property resource, there is need to provoke all stake holders into a national conversation over
this matter. This paper examines the potential of wildlife as a source of meat for human
consumption in Kenya and discusses the legal, operational and societal considerations of this form
of wildlife utilization in the country. Further, it is a methodological contribution to applied wildlife
management in Kenya by interrogating the relevance and applicability of the conventional
Wildlife Attitudes and Values Scale (WAVS) as an empirical tool and conceptual aid in wildlife
management research in the country.
2019-06-13T00:00:00ZSwarming Inducement of Pseudocantotermesgrandicepsalates in Response to Food Security in Kenya
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Swarming Inducement of Pseudocantotermesgrandicepsalates in Response to Food Security in Kenya
Makila, Jacob; Kalama, Patrick
The termite alates of Pseudocanthotermes grandiceps are eaten as a substitute dietary element in
Kenya. Artificial inducement of the alates was evaluated based on a traditional method that has
been used for decades. The idea is to imitate the natural weather conditions required by
swarming alates. In natural situations, the most conducive weather is when rain is accompanied
by thunderstorms and then stops for at least 2days with intervals of clear and sunny skies. Such
weather conditions stimulate the emergence of alates during day time. In artificial situation,
producing the sound of rain by rhythmic beating of sticks at the termite mound to strengthen the
impression of rain early in the morning before the actual harvesting in the afternoon was found
to work with Pseudocanthotermes species. This was done by manipulating weather conditions and
puffing of smoke in the emergence holes just before emergence of alates. The alates of P.
grandiceps responded to external changes and were harvested. The following conditions were
found necessary in stimulating nest activities and emergence of alates: a) hot and dry weather for
a week prior to artificial inducement; b) sunny and hot afternoon at time of swarming.; c) laying
a long rod on the ground at the termite mound and knocking it with smaller rods to produce a
rhythmic sound 6am in the morning for thirty minutes. The time taken from the onset of the
experiment to the end of swarming was approximately 8 hours. The artificial inducement of alates
was found to be effective, seasonal and limited only to the genus Pseudocanthotermes.
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