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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Western Kenya"”.
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Maize ear rot and associated mycotoxins in western Kenya
… as the most important crop protection problem in Western Kenya. The mean percentage rotten maize grain resulting from cob rot was 19% based on the PRA survey in Kapsabet and Tongaren Divisions and on-farm evaluation of the Kenyan hybrids in Tongaren Division in 1998 and 1999 seasons. The two …
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Characteristics of Male Partners Accessing Assisted Partner Services in Western Kenya
… data from an implementation science study in Western Kenya, we aim to analyze the characteristics in HIV exposed male partners named by female index participants to assess characteristics associated with male partner APS uptake and HIV testing. We analyzed data from HIV positive female indexes …
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Fuelwood and tree planting : a case study from Funyula Division in Western Kenya
… villages in Funyula Division of Busia District, Western Kenya. It also explores gender issues and the existence of cultural norms and beliefs that might influence tree planting activities. The actual study involves an environmental and socioeconomic description of the study area and population, …
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Tobacco Under Contract: Agricultural Development and Environmental Change in Kuria District, Western Kenya
In conclusion, this dissertation stresses the importance of placing the landuser at the center of agricultural and environmental policy discussions, especially if the twin goals of increasing agricultural productivity and environmental conservation are to be realized in sustainable manner.
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Exploring Performance Ethnography to illuminate mobile banking Capabilities in Western Kenya: Capability Approach Study
… marginalised poor of Bukhalalire sub-location in western Kenya. Using Capability Approach as the guiding theoretical framework, this research project answers Denzin’s (2003) call to performance, a performance which contributes to a more “enlightened and involved citizenship”. It is “revolutionary” …
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The dynamics of culture in an urban setting: a study set in western Kenya
… in the region that the research refers to as Western Kenya. This region brings together three cultural groups. In spite of the diversity of the community groups, past research identified development within the region that brought about the culture being shred between the communities. The …
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Spirit, desire and the world: Roho churches of western Kenya in the era of globalization
… a study of the Roho churches of Vihiga District, Western Kenya, from their beginnings in 1927 to the present. After an initial historical overview of this group of African Independent Churches, it examines their creation of a vernacular theology – the founders’ vision. This was characterized by a …
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Public preaching by Muslims and Pentecostals in Mumias, Western Kenya and its influence on interfaith relations.
… spaces into the public sphere and invite Kenyans in general, and mainline Christians in particular, to recommit themselves to Jesus. The preaching of both Muslims and Christians has potential and real negative effects for public order.
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Acceptance and access : home-based HIV counselling and testing and barriers to care in rural Western Kenya
… has not yet been evaluated on a wide scale in Kenya among adult individuals [over age 15], this project is designed to assess in rural Kenya 1) overall acceptance rates and variables that predict differential acceptance rates of home-based HIV testing, 2) reasons for refusal of home-based …
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Investigations of cellular immune mechanisms to malaria during pregnancy in a malaria holoendemic region of Western Kenya
Women during pregnancy in holoendemic regions of malaria are at an increased risk for peripheral malaria infections with potential for developing placental malaria. The immunological basis of protection and pathogenesis are incompletely understood. This thesis investigates both processes. Research …
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Dialectics of Rural Change: A Political Economy of Livelihoods and Land Use and Land Cover Change in Rural Western Kenya
… and land use and land cover change in rural western Kenya during a period of economic change. The research findings are presented in three stand-alone papers. The first paper examines the initiatives and policies implemented by the state in the past three decades of neoliberal economic change …
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Art in ethno-medicine : a case study of Juogi (Mysticism among the Luo people) in South Nyanza district of western Kenya
This ethnographic study is intended to give voice to the feeling of those who value and depend on indigenous medicine and to examine how it has worked for the Luo. In this thesis we investigate how one acquired the skills of becoming a medicine man or woman. We examine how the medicine man or woman …
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Faith, gender and peacebuilding: The roles of women of faith in peacebuilding in the Conflict between the Gusii and Maasai of south-western Kenya.
… conflict between the Gusii and Maasai of South-western Kenya. While religion has at times legitimated women’s exclusion and predominantly created male religious elite figures in peacebuilding, I demonstrate how women of faith deploy religious resources for peace. Acting within complex unequal …
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Women artisanal miners in the Gold Mining industry of Bondo Sub-County, Western Kenya and their navigation of their productive and reproductive labour during the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020
… Market and Ka-June mines in Bondo Sub-County, Western Kenya, were interviewed. Using the feminist economic conceptual framework, the analysis revealed productive labour challenges, such as reduced working hours and declining gold prices, and unpaid reproductive labour challenges, including …
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Social and ecological dimensions of supporting wild pollinators in tropical smallholder farms
… with social and ecological fieldwork in western Kenya. The first data chapter synthesised evidence from 35 studies to assess the relationship between distance to natural habitat and pollination services in smallholder landscapes across the tropics. The analysis found no consistent …
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Determining Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Transmission Networks Through Sequenom And Capillary Electrophoresis Genotyping
… at micro-epidemiological scales in two sites in Kenya and one site in The Gambia, and in a subsequent study at macro-epidemiological scales in Western Kenya. Principal component analysis and linear regression were used to analyse population structure and genetic relatedness in time and space, …
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Changing etiologies in childhood acute febrile illness: implications for management in an era of declining malaria
… to evaluate the contribution of dengue to AFI in western Kenya (Aim 2), and determine whether seasonal variations in malaria incidence influence antibiotic prescribing for children with AFI (Aim 3). Methods: All three aims were addressed using data from a large cohort in western Kenya that has …
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Status of Northen Leaf Blight, Phaeosphaeria maydis Leaf Spot, Southern Leaf Blight, Rust, Maize Streak Virus and Physiologic Specialization of Exserohilum turcicum in Kenya
… were the most serious maize pathogens found in Kenya during a 1995/96 survey of 65 farms representing all the agro-ecological zones. Exserohilum turcicum - induced blight was observed in all maize producing areas with disease incidence reaching over 45%. Lesions were sometimes over 400 mm long …
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