University of Nairobi Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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Classification and management of the wet soils of Kenya
(University of NairobiFaculty of Agriculture, 1992) -
Non-motorized Urban Transport: The Central Business District - A Designer’s Perspective
(Architecture and Building Science, University of Nairobi, 1993) -
Rural-urban Migration in Kenya: Emerging Trends
(Architecture and Building Science, University of Nairobi, 1991) -
Texture and mineralogy of soils with repeated additions of pyroclastics (in the Nguu Volcano Area—Machakos District, Kenya)
(University of NairobiDepartment of Soil Science, 1983)From the Tertiary period onwards, Kenya has experienced repeated episodes of volcanicity, resulting in a large part of the country being covered by volcanic rocks. Soils developed on the volcanic rocks per se (for example, ... -
Technical Guidelines for Slum Upgrading in Kenya
(Architecture and Building Science, University of Nairobi, 1991) -
Guidelines for Slum Upgrading in Kenya: Socio- Cultural Factors
(Architecture and Building Science, University of Nairobi, 1991) -
Factors Influencing The Cohesiveness Of Community-based Organizations: The Case Of Income Generating Community Groups In Kibera Informal Settlements
(University of NairobiDepartment of Extra-Mural Studies, 2013)Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) are useful conduits for donor funded grassroots development. However their high tendency to disintegrate puts the sustainability of such efforts at risk thus wasting valuable resources. ... -
The Socio-Cultural and Economic Factors in Planning and Architectural Design of Low-Income Settlements in Developing Countries
(Architecture and Building Science, University of Nairobi, 1989) -
Physical Planning: An Assessment of the Field
(Architecture and Building Science, University of Nairobi, 1987) -
Agricultural input-output marketing in remote areas: Kenya case study
(Department of Agricultural Economics, 2002) -
Geology of the Ithanga Hills are in Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment of Geology, 1984)The geology of the Ithanga Hills area is composed of high grade late Precambrian metamorphic rocks of the Mozambique belt, Tertiary (?) volcanics, largely tuffs, that overlie the Mozambiquian rocks unconformably and Recent ... -
Effect Of Small Scale Irrigation On Food Security In Miriga Mieru East Division Of Imenti North District, Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment of Extra-Mural Studies, 2013)About 80% of the Kenyan population depends on agriculture. Again 80% of the country is arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) and typically characterized by low (100-1,200 mm per annum) and erratic rainfall, high evaporation ... -
The Mutito and Ikoo faults in the Pan-African Mozambique Belt, eastern Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment of Geology, 1992)The Mutito and the Ikoo faults, two dextral strike-slip faults located in eastern Kenya about 160 km east of Nairobi, represent major dislocations in rocks of the late Proterozoic Pan-African Mozambique belt. They intersect ... -
Some aspects of the Biology of the Genera Sigara and Micronecta (Corixidae-Hemiptera) from Lake Nakuru Kenya
(University of Nairobi,School of Biological Sciences, 1975) -
Pan-African high pressure granulites from SE-Kenya: petrological and geothermobarometric evidence for a polycyclic evolution in the Mozambique belt
(University of NairobiDepartment of Geology, 2004-12)Two different Pan-African tectono-metamorphic events are recognised in the Taita Hill Tsavo East National Park/Galana river area, SE-Kenya (Mozambique belt) based on petrographic and geothermobarometric evidence. Structurally, ... -
Impact Of Microfinance Institutions On Growth And Development Of Small And Medium Enterprises; A Survey Of Machakos Town
(University of NairobiDepartment of Extra-Mural Studies, 2013-07)Small and medium enterprises continue to fail from the problems that microfinance institutions claim to offer solutions to. A survey by Kenya National Bureau of statistics, (2007) indicate that three out of five SME ... -
Rural Factor Markets, Agricultural Investments and Productivity in Kenya
(Department of Agricultural Economics, 1989) -
Effects of mulches on soil temperatures under Arabica coffee at Kabete, Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment of Crop Science, 1981)In an experiment in which soil temperatures under coffee mulched with grass, clear polythene, black polythene and white polythene, were recorded at different depths, it was found that grass mulch lowered soil temperature; ...
