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Protein energy malnutrition (PEM) accounts for 50% of the annual deaths of children under five years of age. Complementary foods for such young children should be protein efficient and nutrient dense. Compositing complementary flours with …
Indigenous chickens play an important role in African rural households particularly in improving their livelihoods. However, indigenous chicken production is characterised by low productivity due to poor management practises, particularly …
Indigenous chicken production has been recognized as an avenue to improve livelihoods of the rural households in Northern Uganda, where they provide meat, eggs and income. Venturing into commercial indigenous chickens is a pathway to meeti…
Over three-thirds of farmers in Uganda are subsistence farmers and market less than 10 percent of their output. The high cost of marketing is one of the reasons for remaining at the subsistence level. An appropriate agricultural market inf…
In Ethiopia local communities widely utilize natural resources, but local innovative knowledge on utilization of natural resource by communities usually takes long time even centuries to be implemented. Use of Aloe vera plant for hygiene a…
Fresh fruit and vegetable juices rich in health, nutritional and minerals of benefits are consumed by all age groups in Kampala, Uganda. However, exposure to microbiological contamination, light and temperature effects may occur before and…
In Ethiopia, groundnut is the second most important lowland oilseed after sesame, and has become an important high value crop grown in the dryland areas of the Tigray region, Northern Ethiopia. However its production is considerably low an…
Rural communities in Tanzania are increasingly suffering from food shortage and malnutrition. A household survey was conducted to determine the baseline situation in Maswa district, regarding production, processing and storage of orange fl…
Botswana is endowed with high diversity of both domesticated and wild plants despite its semi-aridness. The present study determined the nutritive value of diverse processed products from cooking melon (Citrullus vulgaris) with a view to u…
A breeding program for Trematocranus placodon, a Lake Malawi molluscivorous cichlid that can be used as a biological control agent of snails in schostosomiasis control programs, was initiated at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natur…
This study is designed to assess viability of Polychaete worms (Marphysa mossambica) species as potential alternative animal protein ingredients in formulation of juvenile tiger prawn (Peneaus monodon) feeds in Kenya. Specifically the stud…
The investigation on the recruitment pattern and catch per unit effort of the black tiger shrimp(Penaeus monodon) was conducted over the period of twelve months in Andoni River System, Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Total weight, length of…
Research was conducted to assess the combined effect of water flow rate and incubation egg population density on egg hatching period, hatchability, total mortality and fry survival of Oreochromis karongae. The treatments were (1) 0.09 l/se…
Lack of affordable larval diets is largely held responsible for the low survival (10-30%) and slow growth of catfish (Clarias gariepinus) fry, required for production of farmed human food fish and as bait for the Nile Perch fishery within …
Common carp (Cyprinus carpio) and the African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) have been introduced worldwide for aquaculture. In their novel areas, ecological impacts, arising from their benthivorous and predatory feeding behaviour, have been…
Globally, wild harvesting of polychaetes (Marphysa mossambica) as mariculture feed and bait is unsustainable and hence artificial culture provides a viable alternative. However, adoption of culture techniques developed, and consumption of …
This study to determine economic returns of small-scale fish farming in Malawi was carried out in Bunda area, Lilongwe. Thirty two small-scale fish farmers were purposively sampled and interviewed using a structured questionnaire. Cost and…
This study focused on the analysis of a value chain: the case of Fincha Amarti Nashe reservoir of Oromia State, Horo Guduru Wollega zone, Ethiopia. The socio-economic characteristics of the stake holders along the fisheries enterprises and…
The genus Mycobacterium has two main groups, Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) and atypical mycobacteria. The MTBC species, the causative agents of tuberculosis (TB), has been further typed into different genotypes. Genotyping meth…
Fodder production is increasingly being adopted as a way of building resilience of livestock-dominated pastoral and agro-pastoral livelihoods in the drylands of Kenya. It is not only embraced as a source of feed for livestock during period…
Grasses among pastoral and agro-pastoral communities have for centuries been used for varying purposes. The objective of the study was to compare pastoral and agro-pastoral perceptions on the importance of indigenous grass species. Trends …
The pigs industry in Kenya has faced many challenges, among them poor animal genetic resource base. To partly address this, genetic parameters were estimated using B-spline functions in random regression models for weight of Large White pi…
Sufficient and quality feed resource has been identified as the main limiting factor to increasing animal flock sizes especially in the tropics where feed quality and quantity fluctuates within and between years. Eritrea is setting up prog…
Indigenous cattle are the main livestock reared among African communities. Indigenous cattle have some distinguishing characteristics that can be used for attribution and grouping. A total of 243 indigenous cattle from 27 populations sprea…
Increasing household nutrition is a top priority in Zimbabwe where protein energy malnutrition is rampant among women and children. In rural areas, most people do not afford protein rich foods that include meat, meat products and other alt…
