Browsing Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM) by Subject "Participatory"

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    • Development and delivery of evidence-based messages to reduce the risk of zoonoses in Nairobi, Kenya 

      Kang’ethe, Erastus; Kimani, Violet; Grace, Delia; Mitoko, Grace; McDermott, Brigid; Ambia, Julie; Nyongesa, Concepta; Mbugua, Gabriel; Ogara, William; Obutu, Peninnah (SpringerDepartment of Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nairobi,Department of Community Health, University of Nairobi,International Livestock Research Institute,Biometry Unit, Department of Crop Science, University of Nairobi,Centre for Microbiological Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute,, 2012)
      This paper describes a trans-disciplinary process of co-generating and disseminating evidence-based messages for reducing the risk from cryptosporidiosis and other zoonoses in an urban community in Nairobi. Research ...

    • Farmers’ participatory selection for early bulking cassava genotypes in semi-arid Eastern Kenya 

      Kamau, Joseph; Melis, Rob; Laing, Mark, O.; Darera, John; Shanahan, Paul; Ngugi, Eliud, C.K. (Department of plant Science and crop protection, University of Nairobi, 2011)
      Cassava is an important food security crop in semi-arid, Eastern Kenya, but production is constrained by planting late bulking landraces. Therefore, farmer participatory variety selection was initiated with the aim of ...