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Nexus between Urban Food System and Other Urban Systems: Exploring Opportunities for Improving Food Security in Kisumu, Kenya
(Science and Education Publishing, 2020-10-14)
The world population is growing and shifting in character from to predominantly rural to increasingly urban. It is projected that by 2050, two thirds of the world’s population will be living in urban areas. The food system ...
Identification of QTLs and Candidate Genes for Physiological Traits Associated with Drought Tolerance in Cotton
(Springer Nature, 2020-02-02)
Modeling the Impact of Traveling Time on the Utilization of Maternity Services Using Routine Health Facility Data in Siaya County, Western Kenya
(American Journal of Geographic Information System, 2020-09-01)
In Kenya, no studies have attempted to use routine health facility data disaggregated by level of care, to find out if there is a significant statistical relationship between physical accessibility and utilization of ...
Critical Review of Capability Approach-Based Frameworks in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)
(International Journal of Advances in Engineering and Management (IJAEM), 2020-12-12)
Sen‘s Capability Approach (CA) has emerged as holistic lenses for theorising development within Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) discourses. There is ongoing research on operationalising CA ...
Determinants of Credit Access among Smallholder Dairy Farmers in Kinangop Sub-County, Kenya
(EPRA ARER, 2020-11-05)
Dairy farming plays a major role in the Kenyan agricultural sector as it is dominated by smallholder farmers who contribute approximately 80 per cent of the total milk production. In Kinangop Sub County, there are many ...
Land Use Changes and Impacts on Livelihoods of the Communities Adjacent to Mt Elgon Forest Ecosystem
(Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International, 2020-09-28)
Forests play a critical role in providing essential goods and services to forest adjacent communities. There is, however, insufficient information on how land uses affect the availability and use of forest products and ...
The contribution of issues of “Special educators” in undermining Inclusive Education in rural Kenya.
(Journal of Educational Research, 2020-01-01)
This paper is drawn from a study that investigated the perceptions of educators, parents and teachers in three rural districts in Kenya where national policy supports inclusive education consistent with the United Nations ...
“Romantic Entertainers” on Kenya’s Coastal Tourism: A Case of Sex Tourism
(Leisure Sciences, 2020-01-17)
This paper results from a year-long ethnographic study spent with a group of women on the Kenyan coastline who provide older male European tourists with friendship and intimacy. However, for the most part these are asymmetric ...
Inventory Categorization and Operational Performance: A Supply Chain Analysis of Public Hospitals in Kenya
(Jobmer, 2020)
Performance of public hospitals is becoming a major concern to Kenyans. Public hospitals are currently facing the problem of balancing between overstocking and understocking of drugs. The main objective of this study was ...