Sub-Saharan African (SSA) region continues to experience perennial hunger, poverty and poor health of its people. Agricultural production has remained low over decades and is declining to extremely low staple maize yields ...

Purpose; This study analyses factors affecting access to food for pastoralists living in Mandera County, Kenya. The County is an arid region on the North East most part of Kenya that borders Ethiopia and Somalia to ...

This project undertook a survey in Rachuonyo (Kenya), Bukoba (Tanzania) and Rakai (Uganda) districts to assess the contribution of banana to the household food security and nutrition of PLWHA and assessed the potential ...

African wetlands are among the most productive ecosystems and as such play an important role in ameliorating the effects of global warming, biodiversity conservation as well as major source of natural resources which ...

Impacts of changes in the Lake Victoria fishery on food security (FS) are analysed, focusing on the role that fish and the fish industry play in FS for local communities and national food policy goals. Food has become less ...

This article analyses the impact of liberalization on the dairy industry in Kenya. Much debate rages over the effects of this policy. This debate is, however, not well informed; it lacks recent studies to show events and ...

Ensuring food and nutrition security in the drylands of sub-Saharan Africa is a critical challenge. Often, information on the level of insecurity is either scanty or unavailable. This paper looks at food and nutrition ...

Cassava (Manihot esculenta), is a major source of carbohydrates after rice and maize providing a basic diet to over half a billion people. It is an annual crop belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae. It produces edible ...

Africa’s population is expected to rise to 1.8 billion by 2050 (Gregory 2009). In Kenya the population was 15.3 million in 1979 and by 2009 it had grown by 23.3 million to reach 38.6 million (MOP 2009) population and housing ...