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Indigenous Grasses for Rehabilitating Degraded African Drylands
(2019)
Drylands provide an important livelihood stream to its inhabitants across the globe through a range of products and ecosystem services. However, these fragile ecosystems are threatened and believed to experience various ...
Gender vulnerability to climate variability and household food insecurity
(2011)
Climate variability presents different challenges for men and for women in their efforts to ensure household food security. However, despitetheircentralrole, genderissueshavereceivedonly cursoryattentioninadaptation ...
Entrepreneurial Education in Financial Management and Performance of Youthowned Micro and Small Enterprises in Bungoma County, Kenya
(2018-12)
The objective of the study was to establish the influence of entrepreneurial education on the performance of youth-owned Micro and Small businesses in Bungoma County. The study used descriptive survey. The study focused ...
Does University Education Produce “Half-Baked” Graduates? Perspectives from Graduates of a Kenyan University
(African Multidisciplinary Journal of Research (AMJR). Special Issue, January 2020. (103 - 119), 2020)
University education in Kenya has had an exponential growth in terms of the number of chartered universities and
that of students’ enrolment over the past decade. This phenomenal growth has been occasioned by the need ...
Assessment of the Relationship Between Entrepreneurial Orientation, Organisational Culture Adaptability And Performance Of Christian Faith-Based Hotels In Kenya
(2019-03)
Organisational culture has been the focus in both theory and practice and has captured attention throughout the last decade because of its substantial relationship between the concept itself and its outcomes such as gaining ...
Institutional Innovations for Smallholder Agricultural Production Systems in Kenya: A Case of Smallholder Tea Subsector
(2016-10)
The smallholder tea sub-sector which is part of the larger Kenyan tea industry has enjoyed considerable success since its inception in the early 1960s. The planted area under the smallholder system, expanded from 2,522 ...
Silence as Communication: A Phenomenological Study of Cervical Cancer Patients and Caregivers in Kenya
(2019-02)
Managing a serious diagnosis is a complex and challenging process thus effective communication is a critical aspect of cancer management. However, this has not been given the much needed emphasis. This study therefore ...
Impact of Inventory Management on the Effectiveness of Supply Chain Management Practices in the Public Sector, A Case Study of Ministry of Finance
(2015-03)
The main objective of the study was to assess factors affecting the effectiveness of supply chain management practices in Kenyan public sector with, specific reference to the Ministry of Finance. The study’s specific ...
Influence of the Characteristics of Women Entrepreneurs on the Performance of Their Enterprises: A Study of Kenya Industrial Estates Clients` in Narok Town
(2016-08)
This study was to explore the influences arising from any personal entrepreneurial characteristics towards success of their businesses. The study population consisted of Narok Town on Kenya Industrial Estates (KIE)` women ...
Rural poverty and input use efficiency in smallholder dairy farms in western Kenya
(2014-09)
Increasing agricultural productivity depends on the adoption of modern technology that involves the use of modern improved technical embodied inputs. However, farmers have different production decisions and ability to ...