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Linking farmers to markets through modern information and communication technologies in Kenya
(AAAE Ghana Conference Proceedings 2007, 2007)
This paper highlights a market information and linkage system (MILS) developed and tested by the Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange Limited (KACE) that increases the efficiency of agricultural markets to work better for ...
Epidemiology of plasmodium-helminth co-infection in Africa: populations at risk, potential impact on anemia, and prospects for combining control
(The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2007-02-23)
Human co-infection with Plasmodium falciparum and helminths is ubiquitous throughout Africa, although its public health significance remains a topic for which there are many unknowns. In this review, we adopted an empirical ...
Polyploidy Breeding of African Nightshade ( Solanum section Solanum )
(Global Science Books, 2007)
The perception of African nightshades (
Solanum
section
Solanum
) as “healthy” foods, supported by documentation of their high nutri-
tional and medicinal benefits, has led to a sudden and ...
Combining evidence of natural selection with association analysis increases power to detect malaria-resistance variants
(The American Society of Human Genetics, 2007-08)
Statistical power to detect disease variants can be increased by weighting candidates by their evidence of natural selection. To demonstrate that this theoretical idea works in practice, we performed an association study ...
Equity in the distribution of bursary to secondary school students in Busia district, Kenya
(Educational Research and Review, 2007-11-12)
This study sought to find out the opinion of the head teachers on equity of the established criteria in bursary support for the needy. It was done in the District’s 27 secondary schools with the total student enrolment of ...
Effects of day-length and temperature on floral structure and fertility restoration in a season-dependent male-sterile Solanum villosum Mill. mutant
(Springer Verlag, 2007)
Solanum villosum is an important African leafy vegetable whose yield is limited mainly by competition from early and excess fruit-set. Induced male-sterility is a potential tool to reduce this competition and enhance yields. ...
Equity in the distribution of HELB loans in Kenya in relation to students characteristics: an empirical analysis
(Academic Journals, 2007-08)
Public funding of higher education in Kenya has gone through various stages all buffeted by myriad equity challenges. This prompted the government of Kenya (GoK) to create the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB), through ...
The effects of non-genetic factors and estimation of genetic and phenotypic Parameters and trends for milk yield in Ayrshire cattle in Kenya
(uta foundation, 2007)
Dairy cattle production in Kenya has been growing into an important agricultural sector, but it still faces numerous difficulties in environmental constraints. The purpose of this study was to identify significant non-genetic ...
Linking farmers to markets through modern Information and Communication Technologies in Kenya.
(2007)
This paper highlights a market information and linkage system (MILS) developed and tested by the Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange Limited (KACE) that increases the efficiency of agricultural markets to work better for ...
Immunoepidemiology of Wuchereria bancrofti infection: Parasite transmission intensity, Filaria-specific antibodies, and host immunity in two East African communities
(American Society for Microbiology, 2007)
We compared the age profiles of infection and specific antibody intensities in two communities with different transmission levels in East Africa to examine the contribution of humoral responses to human immunity to the ...