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Reviewing the Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Kenyan Aquaculture Sector and Future Adaptive Strategies
(2022-12-15)
For many Kenyans, the aquaculture business provides a vital source of food and work. However, information on
Kenya’s aquaculture sector’s resilience in the face of emerging global shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic
requires ...
Finding the missing children for TB care and prevention in Kenya
(International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2022-12-01)
SETTING: One hundred high TB burden facilities in nine counties in Kenya.OBJECTIVES: 1) To increase uptake of TB preventive therapy (TPT) among child contacts aged <5 years, and 2) to increase TB diagnosis in children aged ...
Poultry value chain in two medium-sized cities in Kenya; insights from cluster theory
(Frontiers, 2022-04-29)
Poultry is an attractive enterprise among urban smallholder farming households and is the most common livestock reared for home consumption and sale. By combining cluster and value chain approaches, the study analyses the ...
Foliar Diseases and the Associated Fungi in Rice Cultivated in Kenya.
(MDPI, 2022)
We conducted a survey to assess the occurrence and severity of rice blast and brown spot
diseases on popular cultivars grown in the Busia, Kirinyaga, and Kisumu counties of Kenya in 2019.
Working with agricultural extension ...
Genetic diversity and relationships among populations of jackfruit, an underutilized nutrient-rich climate-smart fruit tree crop in Kenya and Uganda
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-09-03)
Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.) is an underutilized fruit tree crop in East Africa. Despite its importance for food and nutritional security, only limited information exists on the extent of genetic variability ...
Optimised germination protocol for jackfruit seeds and evaluation of methods for extraction of DNA suitable for genetic analysis
(African Crop Science Society, 2022-08-18)
Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) is an underutilised plant that is promising in curbing food and nutritional security in sub-Saharan Africa. However, high level of secondary metabolites in its tissues significantly ...
Availability of quality health information on morbidity and mortality indicators to improve maternal healthcare services in Migori county, Kenya
(International Journal of Social Science and Economic Research, 2022-03-31)
Assessing availability of quality health information on maternal morbidity and mortality
indicators in the provision of quality healthcare services is critical. The study used retrospective
and prospective study designs ...
Unraveling the Channels of Food Security of the Households in Northern Kenya: Evidence from an Exclusive Dataset
(Elsevier, 2022-12-23)
Most of the 10 million Kenyans lacking food security lived in the arid and semi-arid northern part of the country in a climatic condition of high temperatures and very little rainfall throughout the year. Frequent droughts ...
Africa and mena Regions (2020)
(Brill Nijhoff, 2022-02-21)
2020 heralded the mother-of-all crises – the covid-19 pandemic – that
impacted all countries in Africa, leading to loss of life, jobs, livelihoods and
the crashing of economies, increasing poverty/destitution. This ...
Commonification of food as an approach for the achievement of food security and the realisation of the right to food for all
(Strathmore LJ, 2020)
The commodification of food is one of the many causes of food insecurity as it occasions
the inability of poor households to access the available food because of high prices and
dysfunctional markets. A change of approach ...