ABSTRACTIron deficiency is the most widespread nutritional problem in the world. It is common throughout childhood and prevalent among 6-12 month olds or 1 - 2 year olds when 70% and 50% of the respective requirements arise from the rapid rate of tissue growth. Despite large-scale iron supplementation programmes, the prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia remains high especially in developing countries. Low iron intake and poor absorption or bioavailability of iron in the diet can cause negati...
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence is the study of computer or microcontrollers ability to perform task which is currently done by human. For instance, when there is an outage of a certain power supply in a particular illuminating lighting device. In that case intelligence emergency light is an electronic circuit that controls automatically the security lighting of an industrial layout according to the ambient level of lighting. In the field of security, security lighting is often used as a pre...
Security companies have resulted to Business Continuity Management (BCM) practices in an effort to ensure continuity of business operations. Organizational performance is crucial and BCM is one of the key driving forces to strengthen a firm’s ability to withstand risks and survive under extreme organizational and environmental pressures. Security companies in Kenya are operating in a rapidly changing environment that presents a risk to operations of companies. The prevailing economic ...
ABSTRACT Youths constitute a formidable force in the agricultural production process, constituting a sizeable proportion of the workforce especially in the rural areas. While their contribution towards attaining food security cannot be underestimated yet their apparent lukewarm attitude towards agriculture is a source of concern. Majority of agricultural policies and programmes formulated in Nigeria do not consider stirring up the interests of youth, this has also made youths to seek employme...
ABSTRACT This paper presents the evaluation of the impact of climate change on water resources and yield capacity of Asa and Kampe reservoirs. Trend analysis of mean temperature, runoff, rainfall and evapotranspiration was carried out using Mann Kendall and Sen’s slope, while runoff was modeled as a function of temperature, rainfall and evapotranspiration using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). Rainfall and runoff exhibited positive trends at the two dam sites and their upstream while fore...
ABSTRACT Cereals are important crops grown and consumed globally, regionally and locally. However, world cereal yields have declined due to frequent droughts, erratic and unreliable rainfall especially in sub-saharan Africa. Pearl millet accounts for almost half of the global production of the millet species. Therefore, identifying high yielding pearl millet genotypes with farmer preffered traits and adapted to drought stress is key for food security. The objective of the field study was to d...
Abstract Internal Savings and Lending Schemes has become very important in global poverty reduction. The popular hypothesis is that by enabling rural poor households access to loans and savings enables poor households begin micro enterprises which would help them improve their income generation and escape poverty eventually. The chief research objective of this dissertation was to examine the role played by internal savings and lending schemes in rural areas, as a way of ensuring sustainable ...
ABSTRACT Cassava (Manihot esculenta Cranzt) is an important food security crop for resource poor rural communities particularly in Africa. Little is however known about variability of critical root nutritional, biochemical quality traits and molecular diversity of Kenyan cassava germplasm. This led to a study whose objective was to determine the nutritional quality traits of different genotypes of cassava cultivated in the central Rift Valley region of Kenya and to identify genetic constitut...
Abstract: Potato is an important cash and food security crop in mid and highlands areas of eastern Ethiopia. However, the yield of the crop is constrained by many factors including improper application of irrigation amount and intervals. The field experiment was conducted at Haramaya University (Raare) research station during 2020 cropping season to assess the effects of furrow irrigation methods and intervals on tuber yield and quality of potato genotypes and to estimate water productivity ...
Abstract: Maize is becoming an important cereal crop in Ethiopia due to its use as sources of food security and generated income. However, its productivity is constrained by insufficient application of NPS fertilizer rate and different inter row spacing. Thus, afield experiment was conducted at Haramaya to assess the effects of application of different rates of blended NPS fertilizer and inter- row spacing on growth, yield components and yield of maize and to estimate the cost benefit analys...
Abstract: Maize is becoming an important cereal crop in Ethiopia due to its use as sources of food security and income. However, the productivity of the crop inhibited by insufficient application of NPSB fertilizer rates and gaps intra row spacing. Therefore, a field experiment was conducted at Metta District to determine the effects of application of different rates of blended NPSB fertilizer and intra- row spacing on growth, yield components and yield of maize and to evaluate the cost bene...
ABSTRACT Agriculture plays a vital role in the Kenyan economy. It helps in poverty mitigation and ensuring food security. In agriculture, women constitute the majority of small-scale farmers in Kenya, providing 89% of subsistence farming labor force and 70% of the cash crop labor force. However, they have limited access to land which hinders them from making the most constructive use of their time and energy in the agricultural sector and thus affecting household nutritional outcomes. Therefo...
Abstract Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs) include infections in any part of the respiratory system lasting less than 3 days. They are a major cause of childhood deaths worldwide. Though the vast majority of ARIs are harmless, there are a few severe ones, which usually cause death within a short time and must therefore be recognised early. Available evidence shows that in Akatsi District about half of ARIs are managed at home. Since this care may be inappropriate there is the need for furth...
Abstract: This study highlights drought characteristics and the long-term and short-term responses to drought stresses employed by Shebelley pastoralists of Fafan zone, Somali region. To achieve the objectives of this study, cross-sectional study design has been conducted. Both qualitative and quantitative data were combined to identify drought coping and adaptations strategies of Shebelley pastoralist with 120 households’ interviews, focus group discussions and key informant interviews we...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out to investigate the production potential for oil crop called jatropha (Jatropha curcas) in Arumeru district. A total of 111 farmers were randomly selected for interview. The study involve estimates of profitability of jatropha farming compared with maize farming, investigating household factors that influence adoption of recommended jatropha cultivation practices and identify opportunities and challenges for the development of jatropha industry in Tanzania. T...