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The impacts of land use changes on the Maasai community in Kajiado county, Kenya
(Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies & Management, 2015-02-27)
This paper assesses impacts of land use changes on livelihoods and subsequent
environmental degradation in Amboseli ecosystem of Southern Kenya. The paper employed
field surveys using questionnaires, interview and focus ...
The effects of communal land sub-division and land use changes on household waste production in the southern rangelands of Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2015-02-28)
In the past few decades, the inhabitants of now Kajiado County in the southern rangelands of Kenya have experienced changes in land tenure and in land use that have impacted other aspects of their livelihoods as well as ...
Manure Management Risks and Ownership of Peri-Urban Poultry Enterprises in Western Kenya
(2013)
Ownership profile and management practices of peri-urban poultry units in four urban centres in Kenya; namely
Bungoma, Eldoret, Kakamega and Kisumu were evaluated. Questionnaire surveys and interviews were used among 475 ...
Environmental hazards in peri-urban poultry farming in western Kenya
(2015)
Poultry keeping is popular in peri-urban centres of Kenya. Poultry wastes arising from
intensive poultry units may become too large to be absorbed in the immediate areas of
production as crop plots and gardens decrease ...
Health implications of heavy metals in soil, scalp hair and selected food crops within Eldoret municipality, Kenya
(Journal of environmental science, toxicology and food technology, 2013-12)
Heavy metals were analyzed in soils, food crops and male scalp hair samples collected from two age
group subjects; adults (18 - 45 years) and old age (46 - 55 years) males from polluted and relatively less
polluted areas ...
Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by Sabaots of mt. Elgon Kenya.
(African Ethnomedicines Network (Nigeria), 2010)
Though the majority of people in Kenya and at Kopsiro Division in particular, rely on ethnomedicinal plant
species to manage human ailments, the indigenous knowledge largely remains undocumented. Therefore, an
ethnobotanical ...
Effective microorganisms and their influence on growth and yield of pigweed (amaranthus dubians)
(African Ethnomedicines Network (Nigeria), 2010-01)
Pigweed (Amaranthus dubians) plants grow widely in many parts of the world. It is a very popular indigenous
wild vegetable and is usually utilized by many communities as a nutritional additive. Pigweed is becoming very ...
Allelopathic potential of mexican sunflower [tithonia diversifolia (hemsl) a. gray] on germination and growth of cowpea seedlings (vigna sinensis l.)
(2015)
Invasive plant species when introduced into new environments may result into a number of ecological problems (Howard et al., 2000). They may influence other species through pathways such as allelopathy or phytotoxicity ...
Effects of fresh leaf materials of sesbania sesban (l.) merrill on the growth and photosynthetic pigments of nightshade (solanum nigrum l. var. popolo)
(INNSPUB, 2014-05-15)
Solanum nigrum L. is one of the African leafy vegetable consumed in Kenya. High cost of inorganic fertilizers has
made it inaccessible by smallholder farmers leading to low yields. A study was conducted at Maseno ...
The use of phytochemical composition of fifty (50) selected plants found in the university botanic garden, Maseno, Kenya to show
(2015-08-02)
Qualitative phytochemical analysis of 50 plants, five each from 10 selected families is presented. The ten
plant families were selected based on their high plant frequency of occurrence within the botanic garden. The
powdered ...