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This study investigates the household-level impacts of market-oriented dairy technologies (crossbred cows and complementary feed and management technologies) on in-comes, food and non-food expenditures, nutrient intakes, and health of pre-school children. A recursive econometric model was employe...
It is argued that dairying is vital to future viability of many small farms in East Africa and that high transactions costs for dairy production and marketing limit participation by asset- and information-poor smalholders. Case studies from Kenya and Ethiopia illustrate the role of dairy cooperat...
Although farmer participation is an important concept in farming systems programs, farmer participation is typically restricted to the management of on-farm trials and little information exists on alternative approaches. This paper evaluates three approaches to farmer participation differentiated...
This paper describes the development, design, dissemination and evaluation of a communication intervention designed to promote appropriate usage of trypanocidal drugs in trypanosomiasis endemic areas of western and coastal Kenya. Following a baseline study on current trypanosomiasis knowledge, at...
Kenya is recognized among developing countries for its success in integrating dairy into smallholder farming systems, particularly in the highland areas. The major determinants of this success were colonial history, its favourable agroecology and supportive agricultural policies, and the importan...
The most important tick-borne disease of cattle in eastern, central and southern Africa is East Coast fever (ECF) caused by Theileria parva and transmitted by the tick Rhipicephalus appendiculatus. Other less-important tick-borne diseases in cattle are benign theileriosis caused by Theileria muta...
The majority of 22 free roaming goat herds in a 2-yr study in southwest Nigeria had no adult males. In a mean herd of seven to nine animals. 78 percent were female, and 43 percent were below 12 mo of age. Birth was the predominant reason for entry, accounting for 94 percent of new animals. Deaths...
Maize was planted at two, three or four seeds per hole with uniform spacing and either the smallest plant (S) or the second largest plant (L) was thinned from each hole after 8 and 14 weeks from the four seed plots and after 14 weeks for the three seed plots. Two plants per hole were left to matu...
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