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What Determines Farmers’ Awareness and Interest in Adopting Cricket Farming? A Pilot Study from Kenya
(International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 2020-11-04)
Farming crickets for human consumption is emerging as a promising novel and sustainable animal-source food production system. Cricket farming in Kenya first began in 2013; however, adoption rates have been slower than ...
Co-production of Urban Knowledge: Context Approach for Effective and Efficient Governance of Cities
(ACTA, 2021-02-03)
Effective and efficient governance is driven by policies that prevail in urban contexts. Policies are usually the result of knowledge co-production, but the efficacy of the process of translating knowledge into policy is ...
Socio-Economic Factors Affecting Entomophagy in Nambale Sub County, Kenya
(International Journal of Innovative Research and Advanced Studies, 2021-02)
Entomophagy describes the practice of eating insects by humans. Globally, there are over 3000 ethnic groups that consume insects. The main aim of this study was to determine the socio economic factors affecting entomophagy ...
Relationship between Support Staff Recognition Efforts and Learners’ Academic Performance in Public Secondary Schools in Kenya
(Asian Journal of Sociological Research, 2021-03-25)
The study examined the relationship between support staff recognition efforts and learners’ academic performance in Public Secondary Schools in Kenya. The Concurrent Triangulation design was used. The study population ...
Artisanal Fishing Supports Breeding of Malaria Mosquitoes in Western Kenya
(BMC, 2019)
Background: Everyday hundreds of people, mainly men, set out to take part in a vibrant artisanal capture fshing (ACF) industry on Lake Victoria. It is not known whether actions of artisanal fshers, in their unrelenting ...
Evaluation of Textile Substrates for Dispensing Synthetic Attractants for Malaria Mosquitoes
(BMC- Parasites & Vectors, 2014-08-16)
The full-scale impact of odour-baited technology on the surveillance, sampling and control of vectors of infectious diseases is partly limited by the lack of methods for the efficient and sustainable dispensing of attractants. ...
Innovative Tools and OpenHDS for Health and Demographic Surveillance on Rusinga Island, Kenya
(BMC, 2015-09-01)
Health in low and middle income countries is on one hand characterized by a high burden associated with preventable communicable diseases and on the other hand considered to be under-documented due to improper basic health ...
Persistent Low Level Viraemia in Antiretroviral Treated Patients: Associated Factors and Virologic Outcome among HIV-1 Infected Patients at Nyakach County Hospital
(Global Scientific Journals, 2022-02)
Antiretroviral treatment (ART) assists patients in controlling their HIV
infection and ensuring long-term survival. Despite this advantage, a significant number
of HIV-positive individuals do not attain full virologic ...
Factors that Influence Adoption of New Improved Wheat Varieties by Farmers in Nakuru and Narok, Kenya
(European Journal of Agriculture & Food Science, 2022-04-14)
This study examines the factors that influence the adoption of new improved wheat varieties (NIWV) by wheat farmers in Nakuru and Narok counties in Kenya. Cross-sectional data from 344 randomly selected wheat farmers from ...
Occurrence of Fungal Foliar Diseases of Tomato in Different Agro-Ecological Zones of Kirinyaga County, Kenya
(Fundamental and Applied Agriculture, 2022-03-30)
Tomato production is characterized by inconsistent quality and yields due to biotic constraints such as fungal foliar diseases. Information on the occurrence of the diseases in different agro-ecological zones of Kenya is ...