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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014
    Kenya

    In Africa, as elsewhere, land rights have remained a bastion of male power and privilege. Since land is a fundamental resource for improving living conditions and economic empowerment, the lack of land rights for women undermines efforts to promote gender equity and equality within a patriarchal society. The minimal transformation of women’s socio-economic position with regards to access and control of land is, in many cases, due to land reform programmes and related processes whose design or implementation is “gender neutral”.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014
    Kenya

    The land question in many African countries has geographical, political, economic, social and demographic nuances. These factors color land and resource rights for pastoral and forest dwelling communities. Land as property draws from the universality of the theory of property in time and space with the earliest theoretical explanations of property being occupation of land and where property belonged of right to him who seized it first. Land therefore represents the earliest form of property and includes resources on the land such as trees; pasture; water and wetlands.

  3. Library Resource

    How conservationist Rhetoric Drove Bedford Biofuels out of Tana Delta - Kenya

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014
    Kenya

    When the Canadian company Bedford Biofuels (BB) started talks with local ranch owners in Tana Delta district (Kenya) about subleasing their land for a large jatropha plantation, they were not the first ones to come to the region for a large-scale agricultural project. Nor were they the first to explore the possibilities of starting a jatropha plantation in Kenya’s coastal area.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014
    Kenya

    Makueni District has experienced low crop production per unit area despite increased hectarage under crop
    production. The district relies heavily on farming for food and income generating activities for the households.
    However, poverty level has been on the increase due to poor crop production and limited diversity in sources of
    income. Analysis of field survey carried in the district shows high variability of soil nutrients (Nitrogen,
    Phosphorous, and potassium), Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) and soil pH due to various land use systems

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014
    Kenya

    Foot
    -
    and
    -
    mouth disease remains a serious endemic disease in Kenya causing extensive production
    losses in
    the dairy industry.
    I
    n
    order to
    understand
    the
    foot
    -
    and
    -
    mouth disease (FMD)
    situation
    in Kenya and related
    risk factors
    in
    high risk zones that include;
    the
    trade and stock routes,
    national parks and game reserves, proposed disease free zones and borderlan
    ds;
    a
    cross sectional
    sero
    -
    survey

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