Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM): Recent submissions
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Hybrid performance of sorghum and its relationship to morphological and physiological traits under variable drought stress in Kenya
(Universty of Nairobi, 1998)Sorghum, Sorghum bicolor L. Moench, is grown mostly in semi-arid climates where unpredictable drought stress constitutes a major production constraint. To investigate hybrid performance at different levels of drought stress, ... -
Yield and yield stability of four population types of grain sorghum in a semi-arid area of Kenya
(Universty of Nairobi, 2000)Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is widely grown in semi-arid tropics where local farmers depend on the adaptability of their rainfed crops to unpredictable drought and other stress factors. To investigate the effects ... -
Fish life in special environments
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Risk factors associated with infectious bursal disease vaccination failures in broiler farms in Kenya
(2014-01)Immunization together with application of biosecurity measures are the principal methods of preventing infectious bursal disease outbreaks in high-risk areas. However, outbreaks in vaccinated chicken flocks have been ... -
Community-based natural resource management
(University of Nairobi, 2007)This technical note is the product of a long process of consultation with a wide range of resource persons who have over the years been involved in the Danish support to Community Based Natural Resource Management. It gives ... -
Severity of Alternaria Leaf Spot and Seed Infection by Alternaria sesami (Kawamura) Mohanty and Behera, as Affected by Plant Age of Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.)
(Universty of Nairobi, 2008)Alternaria leaf spot incited by Alternaria sesami, was monitored to determine the effect of plant age on disease severity and seed infection by A. sesami in plots containing sesame accession SPS SIK 110 plants of five ... -
Evaluation of sesame cultivars for resistance to Cercospora leaf spot
(Universty of Nairobi, 2011)White leaf spot and angular leaf spot caused by Cercospora sesami and C. sesamicola respectively were monitored in plots of 16 sesame accessions at Siaya Farmers' Training Centre and Kibwezi Dryland Research Station, Kenya ... -
The entorhinal cortex of the Megachiroptera: a comparative study of Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat and the straw-coloured fruit bat
(Universty of Nairobi, 2010-05)This study describes the organisation of the entorhinal cortex of the Megachiroptera, straw-coloured fruit bat and Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat. Using Nissl and Timm stains, parvalbumin and SMI-32 immunohistochemistry, ... -
Hippocampal neurogenesis and cortical cellular plasticity in Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat: A qualitative and quantitative study
(Universty of Nairobi, 2010-11)Species-specific characteristics of neuronal plasticity emerging from comparative studies can address the functional relevance of hippocampal or cortical plasticity in the light of ecological adaptation and evolutionary ... -
Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai on the Environment, the War in Iraq, Debt, and Women's Equality: Interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! …
(University of Nairobi, 2005)Today on this International Women's Day, we spend the hour with Wangari Maathai, the first African woman and first environmentalist to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Her life story is a remarkable one. Wangari Maathai ... -
On becoming an advocate for sustainability: personal reflections
(University of Nairobi, 2010)I reflect on my childhood experience when I would visit a stream next to our home to fetch water for my mother. I would drink water straight from the stream. Playing among the arrowroot leaves I tried in vain to pick up ... -
Why a Nobel Peace Prize for Environmental Activism?
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Civil paths to peace
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Challenge for Africa
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Involvement of a community in schistosomiasis control: a Kenyan experience.
(University of Nairobi, 1993)This paper illustrates how community participation was achieved in a study that was carried out between 1983-1988 whose general objective was to reduce the transmission of schistosomiasis in a rice irrigation scheme in ...