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ICDP workshop on the Deep Drilling in the Turkana Basin project: exploring the link between environmental factors and hominin evolution over the past 4 Myr
(Copernicus Publications, 2024-06-17)Scientific drill cores provide unique windows into the processes of the past and present. In the dynamic tectonic, environmental, climatic, and ecological setting that is eastern Africa, records recovered through scientific ... -
Influence of Industrial Symbiosis on Solid Waste Reuse in Manufacturing Industries in Kisumu County, Kenya
(European Journal of Environment and Earth Sciences, 2024-02-05)Industrial symbiosis (IS) is a practical approach to sustainable economic and environmental management involving exchanging materials, energy, water, and by-products among industries. While IS has been extensively studied ... -
Effects of Papyrus Plants (Cyperus papyrus) on the Physicochemical Parameters and Nutrient Levels of Water and Sediments in Yala Swamp Wetland in Western Kenya
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2024-02-23)Yala swamp wetland is the largest fresh water wetland ecosystem in Kenya supporting a broad biodiversity. It comprises of River Yala, the Yala swamp, Lakes Kanyaboli, Namboyo and Sare, and a portion of Lake Victoria ... -
Does Universities’ Research Output Aligned to National Development Goals Impact Economic Productivity? Evidence from Kenya
(SAGE Publications, 2022)Few studies on developing countries have investigated the alignment of research output to a country’s development agenda and economic productivity. Using evidence from Kenya, this study sought to empirically determine ... -
Factors predisposing women and children to indoor air pollution in rural villages, Western Kenya
(BioMed Central, 2022)Indoor air pollution (IAP) remains a major global public health hazard more so in developing countries where use of fossil fuels is still very common. However, despite the popularity of kerosene and fuelwood as energy ... -
Influence of Levels of Awareness, Willingness to Pay, and Incentives on Solid Waste Management Practices by Commercial Enterprises in Kakamega Town
(European Journal of Environment and Earth Sciences, 2022)Globally, there has been an increase in population that has led to increased urbanization and change in consumption patterns. This has led to an increase in solid waste generation. Commercial enterprises have also ... -
Analysis of Factors Influencing the Changes in the use of Transport Modes in Kisumu, Kenya.
(Research gate, 2019)Previous research in the city of Kisumu looked at the policies that were put in place by the government causing the changes in transport mode choice. However, the research did not look at the sociodemographic, built ... -
From a Waste Cemetery to a Waste Hospital: Recreating Kisumu City’s Waste Management System
(American Journal of Environmental Protection, 2021)With the new constitutional dispensation in Kenya, counties, cities and towns are creating and recreating their solid waste management systems. Taking Kisumu as a case, this study assesses the existing solid waste ... -
Impact of Pesticides use on Honeybee Mortality, Honey Yields and Quality in Transmara West Sub County, Ke
(Research Square, 2021)Background: The honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) is an important insect that produces honey wax and royal jelly, and propolis that thought to fight infections. It also acts as a cross pollinator of both agricultural and wild ... -
Cities coping with COVID-19 Comparative perspectives
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The Potential Contribution of Public Primary Schools in Attaining Ten Percent Tree Cover in Kenya
(CARI Journals, 2021)This paper demonstrates the influence of school land-use practices on tree population in public primary schools in Kisumu County. -
Cost-effective banana (musa paradisiaca) waste management and the welfare of banana farmers in Kakamega county Kenya
(EAJSTI, 2021)Horticultural waste management is global war that must be won particularly in Kenya. Utilisation of banana waste can mitigate the dwindling welfare of banana farmers in Kakamega County. Unlike India’s preferred processing ... -
Crop Diversification, a Potential Strategy to Building Resilience through Reduction of Costs of Farming among the Small holder Farmers
(East African Scholars, 2019)Globally, due to rapid population growth and continual urban sprawl, average arable land per household is shrinking hence crop diversification is gaining increased importance in the quest for solutions to the perennial ... -
The Effect of Rainfall Variability on Maize and Coffee Farming Activities between 1990 – 2014 in Machakos Sub County, Kenya
(International Journal of Multidisciplinary and Current Research, 2019)Varying climatic conditions with increased uncertainty mainly in rainfall and temperature are salient features in marginal areas globally, adversely affecting farming activities particularly in Africa. Kenya experiences ... -
Heavy metals in surface sediments of lake naivasha, kenya: Spatial distribution, source identification and ecological risk assessment
(Springer International Publishing, 2020)Heavy metals retained in sediments pose a threat to aquatic ecosystem and society. Knowledge of the status and sustainability of lake sediment in areas undergoing rapid economic development is scarce, and yet it is required ... -
Influence of forest fragmentation on tree fragmentation on tree speciesdiversity in the detachment portions of Kakamega Forest, Kakamega County, Kenya
(East African Scholars Publisher, 2020)Forest fragmentation occurs when large continuous forests are perforated by small holes or broken up into edges and smaller patches to form a non-perforated matrix of open spaces. In various tropical developing countries, ... -
Effect of land use on soil quality in Rivers Nyando and Yala catchments of Lake Victoria Basin, Western Kenya
(Agricultural Science Research Journal, 2020)Soil, as a major subsystem of land, is rapidly changing with time as a result of changes in its’ environment or management. Periodic soil quality assessment is thus vital in evaluating agro-ecosystem sustainability, soil ... -
Spatio-Temporal Dynamics in Urban Land Use/Land Cover Change in Urbanizing Sub-Catchments In The Upper Ewaso Ng’iro North River Basin, Kenya
(East African Scholars Publisher, 2021)Massive expansion of urban areas leads to land use/land cover (LULC) changes which significantly alter the hydrology of river basins. Yet, systematic and logical information on the spatio-temporal dynamics of urban LULC ... -
Factors predisposing women and children to indoor air pollution in Trans Nzoia County, Kenya
(Resarch Square, 2021)Background: Indoor air pollution (IAP) is an increasing public health hazard in developing countries. Although fuelwood and kerosene are still heavily relied on as energy sources among households in the Sub-Saharan Africa, ... -
The Influence of acreage of Land under Artisanal Gold Mining on Maize Crop Yields in Ikolomani Sub County, Kakamega Kenya
(East African Scholars Journal of Agriculture and Life Sciences, 2021)Performance in Mathematics has been poor at secondary level in Kenya despite initiatives like Strengthening Mathematics and Science Studies Education (SMASSE), providing text books and employing trained mathematics ...
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