Books and Book Chapters: Recent submissions
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Micro Finance and Poverty Eradication: Indian and Global Experiences
(2008)Since independence in 1947, the government of India and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have made concerted efforts to provide the poor with access to credit. Despite the phenomenal increase in the physical outreach of ... -
Financial Inclusion for Inclusive Growth
(2013)The present book is an attempt at providing a comprehensive and value oriented strategies for Financial Inclusion for Inclusive Growth. There are thirty research papers contributed by scholars from within and outside the ... -
Textbook for Lecture Notes on Weather Instruments Disasters
(2014)Disasters are hazards which project negative impacts. They are unexpected threats to human life, livelihood, and their properties .The impact of the disaster on human, environment is greater when it is not prepared for or ... -
Performance In Mechanical Technology In Examinations In TVET Kenya
(2012)The graduates from Technology education institutions (Technical Training Institutes and national Polytechnics) have contributed a lot to the industrial growth and the ‘Jua kali’ sectors. The diploma and certificates which ... -
Impact of Information and Communication Technology
(2013)The study was carried out to establish the impact of ICT on teaching in technical institutes in western Kenya. In order to achieve the rationale of this study, the following four specific research objectives were adopted: ... -
Pastoral production system
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Technologies for the management of natural resources in the drylands of South Eastern Kenya: success, opportunities and challenges
(2014)Following the hunger riots in 2008, against a backdrop of the world environmental and economic crisis, the arrangements in place for international aid to developing countries, particularly in Africa, were seriously called ... -
Resource availability and productivity, farmer efficiency, and household food security in semi-arid Kenya
(2015)During 1994-1996, surveys were carried out in Kibwezi and Kilome, semi-arid Kenya, to study resource availability and productivity, farmer efficiency, and household food security in rural areas with different levels of ... -
E-Business Adoption Framework in the Hospitality Industry: The Case of Kenyan Coast
(2015)While the hospitality industry in the Kenyan Coast has adopted Information and Communication Technology (ICT), application of the same is limited to internal operations and control. The industry’s e-business adoption lags ... -
Policy and Governance in Natural Resource Management
(2010)The complex and dynamic interlinks between natural resource management (NRM) and development have long been recognized by national and international research and development organizations and have generated voluminous ... -
The Economic Contribution of Copyright-Based Industries in Tanzania
(2002)The main objective of this study was to quantify the economic contribution of copyright-based industries in Tanzania by estimating their value-added contribution to GDP, share of national employment, and revenue generated ... -
Indigenous techniques for assessing and monitoring range resources in East Africa
(2005)Local knowledge, which refers to a social activity that has been set up primarily as a result of local initiative, or techniques that are endogenously generated, enforced and maintained has not been mainstreamed in rangeland ... -
Influence of micro-catchment technology on above ground biomass production and financial returns of range grasses in southern Kenya.
(2010)A study was conducted in the southern rangelands of Kenya to compare the effect of two micro-catchments, ox-furrows and crescent shaped pits (Kiboko range pits) on the above ground biomass production of three range grasses. ... -
Improving soil hydrological properties of denuded semi-arid rangeland in southeastern Kenya using reseeding technology
(2010)A study was conducted to establish the contribution of Eragrostis superba, Enteropogon macrostachyus and Cenchrus ciliaris in improving soil hydrological properties in semi-arid Kenya. Kamphorst rainfall simulator was used ... -
Impacts of policy reforms on the livestock industry in Kenya: The case of the dairy sector
(2009)This article analyses the impact of liberalization on the dairy industry in Kenya. Much debate rages over the effects of this policy. This debate is, however, not well informed; it lacks recent studies to show events and ...
