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Bridging Weak Links of Solid Waste Management in Informal Settlements
(Journal of Environment & Development, 2017)
Many cities in the global South suffer from vast inadequacies and deficiencies in their solid waste management. In the city of Kisumu in Kenya, waste management is fragmented and insufficient with most household waste ...
Flow of materials in a market system: food security and environmental sustainability perspective
(Research Gate, 2018-01)
Worldwide, there is a challenge of feeding growing population calling for discussions on flow of food materials in a market system. In Kenya, this discussion has been lacking that could aid in identification of opportunities ...
Adapting the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda to the city level: Initial reflections from a comparative research project
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-03-08)
The Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda recognise the role of cities in achieving sustainable development. However, these agendas were agreed and signed by national governments and thus implementing them ...
Food Systems Sustainability: An Examination of Different Viewpoints on Food System Change
(MDPI, 2019-06-07)
Global food insecurity levels remain stubbornly high. One of the surest ways to grasp the scale and consequence of global inequality is through a food systems lens. In a predominantly urban world, urban food systems present ...
Assessment of pollution in Ndarugu river due to runoff and agro-industrial wastewater disposal
(Journal of Agriculture, Science and Technology, 2014)
River Ndarugu is a tributary of Athi River in Kenya and is one of the main sources of fresh water for domestic use to the villages along the river bank and Nairobi City. It traverses Juja Township in Kiambu County, Central ...
The effect of surface albedo and grain size distribution on eveporation losses in sand dams
(Journal of Agriculture, Science and Technology, 2011)
Sand dams are very useful in arid and semi arid lands (ASALs) as facilities for water storage and conservation. Soils in ASALs are mainly sandy and major water loss is by evaporation and infiltration. This study investigated ...
Groundwater Quality Assessment and Water Quality Indexing: Case Study of Makueni County, Eastern Kenya
(2019-04-17)
Makueni falls in South Eastern, semi-arid region of Kenya, that is characterised by erratic rainfall and inadequate surface water from a few rivers. One of the options to supply both human and animal population is groundwater. ...