Asige Mmaitsi Lawrence, Walter Kipkorir Kiboi, Kitiyo Simon & Brian Ndung’u(2024)
Food security is a concept that originated in early 1970s during the global food crisis. It is situation that exists when all people at all times have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious ...
Pauline Kararei Naini, Walter Kiboi, Brian Ndungu, Obushe Dennis Omuse,Olita Faith, Simon Kitiyo, Asige Mmaitsi Lawrence(2024)
Postharvest loss is one of the glaring challenges that affect agricultural development and overall improved livelihoods among farmers in developing countries. In Makueni County, farmers used to experience up to 60 per cent ...
John Wamumwe Mwangi , Denis Kiragu , Bakari Chaka(2024)
Bioactive compounds and other constituents of plants have been shown to vary by cultivation
region, species, environmental conditions and method of extraction among others. Phytochemical
analysis of Cucurbita pepos farmed ...
In rural community development, community participation is a vital element that ensures and speeds the socio-economic
transformation of people and rural areas. Although, over the years, community participation has received ...
Decision making, being an integral part of agricultural production means that this critical component affects farmers’
production overall yield and, ultimately, impact their livelihoods. The basis of these decisions include ...
Joel O. Botai 1, 2,3,4,* , Christina M. Botai 1 , Katlego P. Ncongwane 1,5, Sylvester Mpandeli 6 , Luxon Nhamo 2,6 , Muthoni Masinde 4 , Abiodun M. Adeola 1,7,11 , Michael G. Mengistu 1,2, Henerica Tazvinga 1 , Miriam D. Murambadoro 1,8, Shenelle Lottering 2 , Isaac Motochi 9 , Patrick Hayombe 10, Nosipho N. Zwane 1 , Eric K. Wamiti 10 and Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi 2,(2021)
: Notwithstanding the dispersed nature of the water, energy and food (WEF) nexus scholarship in the African continent, its strategic importance to the African agenda has gained widespread
attention in research and planning ...
Christian C. Voigt , Enrico Bernard , Joe Chun-Chia Huang , Winifred F. Frick , Christian Kerbiriou , Kate MacEwan , Fiona Mathews , Armando Rodríguez-Durán , Carolin Scholz , Paul W. Webala , Justin Welbergen and Michael Whitby(2024)
Wind energy production is growing rapidly worldwide in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, wind energy production is not environmentally neutral. Negative impacts on volant animals, such as bats, include ...
Cellyne Anudo, Benard Kodak and Ogembo, J.E.O(2022)
As an adhesive that binds a society, music is pervasive in communicating issues affecting the
society in one way or another. It touches on the political, social, economic and religious realms of
communities. This study ...
Abstract: National symbols are very instrumental items for a country’s peace, unity and prosperity. The national symbol
for instance the national anthem is always sung at the learning institutions and or during the country’s ...
Conceptual metaphors had for a long time remained unnoticed until the advent of the famous study by Lakoff and Johnson
(1980), “Metaphors We Live By”. Love is an emotional experience that elicits a lot of source domains ...
Susan Njoroge , Alexander Meitamei , Benard Kodak(2022)
This study examines the intertextuality in the plays of Kinjeketile (1969) by Ibrahim Hussein and Majira ya Utasa (2015) by
Timothy Arege. Although the two plays have a great difference in the historical periods of their ...
Evans K. Suter , Hilary L. Rutto , Tumisang S. Seodigeng , Sammy L. Kiambia , nd Wesley N. Omwoyo(2024)
Cellulose was isolated from recycled pulp and paper sludge and used to synthesize cellulose nanocrystals. Response surface methodology and Box-Behnken design model were used to predict,
improve, and optimize the cellulose ...
Iron is a ubiquitous element found on Earth's crust, existing in various forms, such as
Magnetite (Fe3O4) and Hematite (α-Fe2O3). Magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (MIONPs) have
become increasingly popular because they ...
Shappo Tloua , Evans Suterb , Mitem Alfred , Hilary Rutto , and Wesley Omwoyo(2023)
Silver nanoparticles have gained worldwide attention in the scientific community due to their
high antimicrobial activity. However, they tend to agglomerate and lose their shape and properties, thus capping agents necessary ...
E. K. Suter, H. L. Rutto, T. S. Seodigeng, S. L. Kiambi & W. N. Omwoyo(2024)
The pulp and paper industry stands out as an example of a technology based on a renewable
resource, cellulose. The sludge, however, poses major environmental and public health problems.
To effectively manage the sludge ...
Floriane Nsabimana , Hellen Waititu and Cornelious Nyakundi(2023)
This study sought to investigate the tail dependence between government debt and bank’s nonperforming
loans. The objectives of this study were formulation of a bivariate copula model which captures the
dependence between ...
Tamika J. Lunn , Reilly T. Jackson, Paul W. Webala , Joseph Ogola, and Kristian M. Forbes(2024)
: Ecological information on wildlife reservoirs is fundamental for research targeting prevention of
zoonotic infectious disease, yet basic information is lacking for many species in global hotspots of disease
emergence. ...
Paulo Estefano D. Bobrowiec, William Douglas Carvalho, Ana Rainho , Paul W. Webala and Ludmilla M. S. Aguiar(2024)
1
Programa de Po´ s-Graduac¸ão em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazoˆ nia,
Manaus, Brazil, 2Instituto Tecnolo´ gico Vale, Bele´ m, Brazil, 3Terrestrial Ecology Group (TEG-UAM),
Departamento de Ecolog´ıa, ...
Reilly T. JacksonID1 *, Tamika J. Lunn, Isabella K. DeAnglis , Joseph G. Ogola , Paul W. Webala , Kristian M. Forbes(2024)
Simultaneous use of domestic spaces by humans and wildlife is little understood, despite
global ubiquity, and can create an interface for human exposure to wildlife pathogens. Bats
are a pervasive synanthropic taxon and ...
Amanda L. Grunwald, Terrence C. Demos, Yvette Nguéagni, Martin N. Tchamba, Ara Monadjem, Paul W. Webala, Julian C. Kerbis Peterhans, Bruce D. Patterson & Luis A. Ruedas(2023)
The Cameroon Volcanic Line, which divides the Congo Basin fauna from the West African fauna, is a known area of
high endemism for various taxa, but the region’s bat fauna has received little attention. We review variation ...