Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM): Recent submissions
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Drivers of Use of Information and Communication Technologies by Farm Households: The Case of Smallholder Farmers in Kenya
(Department of Agricultural Economics, 2012)Smallholder farmers’ access to markets has traditionally been constrained by lack of market information. The desire to strengthen farmer access to market has seen the emergence of a number of projects that employ ICT tools ... -
Drivers of the transition from pastoralism to vegetable farming in Africa’s arid and semi arid areas and implications for soil fertility management: The case of Kenyan pastoralists
(Academic JournalsDepartment of Agricultural EconomicsDepartment of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology,, 2012-04)The arid and semi arid areas comprise a large percentage of the land area in Africa. Communities in these areas have over the years depended on livestock production for livelihood. Livestock has traditionally served as ... -
Awareness of Mobile Phone-Based Money Transfer Services in Agriculture by Smallholder Farmers in Kenya
(Department of Agricultural Economics, 2012-01)Smallholder farmer access to agricultural finance has been a major constraint to agricultural commercialization in developing countries. The ICT revolution in Africa has however brought an opportunity to ease this ... -
Ownership and use of mobile phones for agricultural transactions by traders: The case of the Analanjirofo and Atsinanana Regions – Madagascar
(Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi,, 2012-06)This paper analyzes the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in improving the performance of agricultural markets. It focuses on ownership and use of mobile phone by the rural traders in the Regions of ... -
Urban Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Quality of Leafy Vegetables along the Value Chain: The Case of Nairobi Kale Consumers, Kenya
(Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi,Department of Land Management, Agricultural Resource and Technology, 2011)Improvement in income in developing countries has led to emergence of middle and high income consumers. In major urban centers there has been rapid expansion of the grocery sections selling variety of leafy vegetables ... -
The role of varietal traits in the adoption of improved dryland crop varieties: The case of pigeon pea in Kenya
(Department of Agricultural Economics, 2011-09)This study uses a multivariate probit model and the Poisson regression to examine the role of varietal attributes in farmers’ adoption of improved pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) varieties in Taita District, Kenya. It is based ... -
The Role of ICT-Based Market Information Services in Spatial Food Market Integration: The Case of Malawi Agricultural Commodity Exchange
(IGI Global.Department of Agricultural Economics, 2011)The government of Malawi in 2004 initiated an ICT-based Malawi Agricultural Commodity Exchange (MACE), a market information service project, to improve access by farmers to market information. MACE was intended to improve ... -
Export Standards, Market Institutions and Smallholder Farmer Exclusion from Fresh Export Vegetable High Value Chains: Experiences from Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia
(Department of Agricultural Economics, 2011-12)Many African countries are diversifying exports into fresh export vegetables, grown mainly by smallholder farmers. However, markets for these new products have stringent safety standards. This paper examines the green ... -
Exit, voice and loyalty in Kenya’s french bean industry: what lessons can we learn from smallholder farmers’ past response to international food safety standards?
(Department of Agricultural Economics, 2011)Kenya is one of the leading exporters of fresh vegetables to Europe. Kenyan exporters have since the 1990s targeted the leading European supermarkets with their produce. However, the food safety scandals of the 1980s and ... -
Choice of Fresh Vegetable Retail Outlets by Developing-Country Urban Consumers: The Case of Kale Consumers in Nairobi, Kenya
(Department of Agricultural Economics, 2011)Fresh produce retailing in many developing-country urban centers is changing with the recent emergence and rapid growth of supermarkets and specialty stores. These retail outlets are competing with the traditional wet ... -
Bacterial contamination of kale (brassica oleracea acephala) along the supply chain in Nairobi and its environs
(Department of Agricultural Economics, 2011)Objective: To assess the microbiological safety of kale (Brassica oleracea Acephala) produced from farms and those sold at the markets with special focus on coliforms, E.coli and Salmonella. Design: A cross sectional ... -
Residual Effect of Mucuna pruriens Green manure Application Rate on Maize (Zea mays L.) Grain Yield
(Department of Agricultural Economics, 2010)Maize grain yield is constrained by inadequate supply of nitrogen caused by insufficient application of fertilizers that are found to be costly and unaffordable in smallholder farming. Therefore there is need to search ... -
Molecular characterization of a novel 32-kDa merozoite antigen of Babesia gibsoni with a better diagnostic performance by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
(Department of Public Health, Pharmacology and Toxicology, 2007)We cloned and expressed 3 novel gene encoding a 32-kDa merozoite protein of Babesia gibsoni (BgP32). The length of nucleotide sequence of the cD;\' A \\'3. 1-1-6-1 bp with an open reading frame of 969 bp. The truncated ... -
Estimation of tsetse challenge and its relationship with trypanosomosis incidence in cattle kept under pastoral production systems in Kenya
(Department of Agricultural Economics, 2008)In an on-farm trial conducted amongst the Maasai pastoralists in Nkuruman and Nkineji areas of Kenya between April 2004 and August 2005 designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a synthetic tsetse repellent technology, ... -
African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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Financial Analysis Of The Effectiveness Of Tsetse Repellent In Bovine Trypanosomosis Control In Kenya
(Department of Agricultural Economics, 2006)A 12-month field trial was conducted in two tsetse-infested areas of Kenya. The objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of a new tsetse repellent technology to control bovine trypanosomosis in smallholder nomadic ... -
Evidence of improper usage of veterinary drugs in cattle in Maasailand, Kenya
(Department of Agricultural Economics, 2007)The extent of farm-level extra-label drug use in Kenya is not well documented in spite of its important implications on food safety, human health and international trade. One hundred and thirteen farmers in Kajiado and ... -
Macrophages Are Critical for Cross-Protective Immunity Conferred by Babesia microti against Babesia rodhaini Infection in Mice
(Department of Public Health, Pharmacology and Toxicology, 2012)AlthoughprimaryinfectionofmicewithBabesiamicrotihasbeenshowntoprotectmiceagainstsubsequentlethalinfection by Babesiarodhaini,themechanismbehindthecross-protection is unknown.To unravel lthis mechanism,we investigated the ... -
Diagnosis of human hydatidosis in kenya. I. The role of indirect hemagglutination test (iha) based on a thermo-stable antigen
(Department of Veterinary Public Health, Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of NairobiDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Nairobi, 1986)A method for preparation of a hydatid cyst antigen - antigen "880" - of Echinococcus granulosus origin by heat treatment of concentrated cattle hydatid cyst fluid (HCF) is described. The thermo-stable antigen was applied ... -
Growth and mortality in sheep and goats under high tsetse challenge in Kenya
(Department of Agricultural Economics, 2002)Trypanosomosis is a major impediment to livestock production and economic development in those areas of Africa where it is endemic. Although small ruminants appear to perform better than cattle in various agro-ecological ...
