kathuli, peter; Kinama, J. M.; Kitonyo, O. M.; Nguluu, Simon N.; Muui, C. W.; Muasya, Reuben M.(2023-03)
Sorghum production in semi-arid lands is constrained by inadequate soil moisture and low nitrogen. Research was carried out between 2018-2020 to determine the effect of nitrogen fertilizer on nitrogen use efficiency, yield ...
The growing global economy has brought about new challenges and requirements.
This calls for reforms in the education sector. This chapter sought to investigate
preparedness of higher institutions of learning on ...
Wambua, Raphael M.; Mutua, Benedict M.; Raude, James M.(IGI Global, 2016)
This chapter presents the trend of drought as a stochastic natural disaster influenced by the climate variability for the upper Tana River basin in Kenya. Drought frequency, duration and intensity in the upper Tana River ...
Semi-intensive aquaculture using ponds is among the most common practices of fish production, whose output depends highly on the ponds’ natural primary productivity. With the increased sustainability and health concerns ...
Ahmed, Abusabah I. A.; Cheng, Hong; Liu, Huaping; Lin, Xichuan; Juma, Mary A.(Springer, Singapore, 2017-07)
Online gait control in human-powered exoskeleton systems is still rich research field and represents a step towards fully autonomous, safe and intelligent navigation. Many Control method performs well and with accepted ...
Makueni, Machakos and Kitui Counties, located in the Arid and Semi-Arid land (ASAL) region of south-eastern Kenya, receive low and unreliable rainfall which necessitates a high dependence on groundwater for potable, domestic ...
Namasaka, David B.(LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2014-02)
This book presents an overview of some deviant practices namely: drug abuse, alcoholism and
drunkenness and sexual deviance among adolescents in secondary schools in Kenya. The study
involved students in girls, boys and ...
Okori, Joseph J.; Nyamasyo, Stephen; Amwata, Dorothy A.(Springer, Cham, 2021-06-27)
Wildlife in Kenya is both a national resource and a key source of revenue for the government. Wildlife and tourism are interdependent and essential sectors in Kenya’s socio-economic development agenda. This chapter reviews ...
Obando, Joy A.; Ogutu, Anthony O.; Luwesi, Cush N.; Shisanya, Chris; Förch, Nele; Förch, Gerd(IGI global, 2018)
Management of water resources is at the heart of political discourse to raise awareness among local stakeholders for support in policy formulation and implementation of water sector development plans. The concept of ...
Kathuli, P.; Zaharah, A. R.; Nguluu, Simon N.(Springer International Publishing AG, 2020-11-10)
Gliricidia sepium is a fast growing legume shrub or tree with a wide range of environmental adaptation. Pruning of bushes at 1 m tall provides a source of crop nutrients. However, the value of pruning for increased ...
This chapter critiques post-2000 Kenyan novelists’ counter-narratives that reinterpret as they unsettle mis/uses of traumatic pasts reinforced through fiction. Pioneer post-independent Kenya Mau Mau War narratives reconfigured ...
This study investigated the effect of pupil-teacher ratio on teacher workload in public primary schools in Mwingi North Sub-County, Kenya. The study used descriptive survey design with a sample of 135 respondents comprising ...
Mwaniki, Munene; Arias, Beatriz M.; Wiley, Terrence G.(Springer International Publishing AG, 2016)
The chapter is a critical appraisal of bilingual education policy scholarship and practice against a backdrop of contestations that characterize determination and execution of bilingual education goals and the spread of ...
The chapter explores an under-researched aspect of South African higher education (HE), namely its language dynamics, from a relatively new perspective of effects of globalisation on language dynamics in South African HE. ...