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Julius Twinamasiko

The study analyses the field pea market chain in Uganda using data collected from 72 producers in Kabale district, South-western Uganda, 72 traders from Kabale, Mbarara and Kampala markets who were randomly selected. The study also involve…

RUF-35856 2014 CC BY 4.0 29 Jan 2016

Iragi Daniel Muhindo

Rice is one of the five most important staple foods in South-Kivu, with high and increasing demand. The gap between the demand and supply has led to increasing importation of rice in the region. Changes in climate are likely to further inc…

RUF-35848 2015 CC BY 4.0 28 Jan 2016

Jean Jacques Bagalwa Mashimango

Lake Kivu is one of the deepest lakes in Africa with a maximum depth of 485 m and the most fragile and highly sensitive ecosystems in the African Great Lakes region in term of gaseous content. During the last decade, an increase in polluti…

RUF-35846 2015 CC BY 4.0 28 Jan 2016

Joseph N. Njoroge

RUF-35783 2014 CC BY 4.0 24 Nov 2015

S. Mugerwa

Development of sustainable termite management interventions in any ecosystem requires adequate knowledge of the ecological interactions between termites and other ecosystem components, diversity and composition of termite assemblages and p…

RUF-35776 2011 CC BY 4.0 19 Nov 2015

Agnes Sarah Nalule

Medicinal plants are important natural resources in drylands for communities on which their livestock and other forms of livelihoods have been sustained based on traditional knowledge. However, lack of scientific basis of their biological …

RUF-35775 2011 CC BY 4.0 19 Nov 2015

E.W. Githae

Acacia senegal is a dryland multipurpose tree species highly valued for gum Arabic production, agroforestry and desertification control. The aim of this study was to investigate the edaphic and genetic factors that affect distribution of t…

RUF-35772 2011 CC BY 4.0 19 Nov 2015

Alemayehu. Fikir · James Kinyanjui. Mwangi · R. Onwonga · V.O. Wasonga

Watamu coastlineis a major attraction site for tourist and also a source of income for the local people. However, the shoreline has been changing due to erosion. This study sought to find the trend of shoreline changes, and the factors att…

RUF-35769 2014 CC BY 4.0 19 Nov 2015

E. Adipala · M. Bagalwa · S. Bashwira · F. Kansiime +3 more

Land use and land cover change in River Lwiro micro-catchment was assessed for the period 1987-2010 using satellite imagery of Landsat 5 and 7. Images were clustered into four categories: forest, built-up areas, wetland and small scale far…

RUF-35674 2015 CC BY 4.0 21 Oct 2015

H. Machekano

The overall objective of the study was to establish the efficacies of different inert dusts alone and in combination with safer levels of a synthetic pyrethroid or a bio-pesticide as grain protectants. Parallel on-station ecological studie…

RUF-35592 2013 CC BY 4.0 7 Oct 2015

A. Egeru · P. Isubikalu · M.G.J. Majaliwa · P. Mukwaya +1 more

Drylands occupy 44% of Uganda’s land surface and provide livelihood to a cross-section of both rural and urban folks. However in the face of population pressure, drylands are increasingly in the path of conversion and degradation. This stu…

RUF-35578 2010 CC BY 4.0 6 Oct 2015

Samuel. Sentumbwe

Improved production technologies have been developed and adopted by some farmers in the country. These technologies were developed with the aim of improving farmer’s welfare but its known that households get income from sources other than …

RUF-35545 2007 CC BY 4.0 30 Sep 2015

R. Mating

Agricultural activities; grazing and cropping are thought to be the major contributors to non-point wetland pollution and other land degradation forms in the highlands and foothills while industrial effluents and domestic waste disposal ar…

RUF-35534 2012 CC BY 4.0 30 Sep 2015

T. Nkheloane

There is sparse information on the wetlands of Lesotho in terms of their characteristics, climate change impacts, management and coverage and there is a growing concern on high levels of degradation observed in these ecosystems. Thus the m…

RUF-35532 2012 CC BY 4.0 30 Sep 2015

S. Munialo

Decreasing land holdings among smallholder farmers in Vihiga and Jinja have resulted in intensive land utilization. This has in turn led to low soil fertility level which has resulted in decline in the abundance and distribution of phyto-d…

RUF-35527 2013 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

S. Kiconco

Assessing soil fertility status is one way of evaluating sustainability of land use and management activities. There are basically two methods of assessing soil fertility: the laboratory method and use of indigenous knowledge. One way of u…

RUF-35526 2014 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

Geofrey. Kawube

The production of rice and cowpea in Uganda is increasing in acreage rather than productivity. This is attributed to a number of factors, mainly seed-borne diseases. The farmers in Uganda mainly use farm saved seeds for planting. These see…

RUF-35511 2005 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

Annie Bettie Kam'bwebwe. Zidana

The study was conducted to investigate factors that influence farmers to cultivate along the river banks in Salima District, in the Central Region of Malawi. Using logit analysis the study revealed that household size, main occupation, edu…

RUF-35471 2009 CC BY 4.0 28 Sep 2015

Juma William Yabeja

Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is one of the general linear models used to nearly unimaginable range of problems in many different disciplines and has been a fundamental method used by plant pathologists and other researchers for analysis of…

RUF-35373 2013 CC BY 4.0 21 Sep 2015

Ibrahim Ahmed Ibrahim Abdelfadeel

Climate change and/or variability are expected to affect water availability as well as the techniques of water harvesting. The main objective of this study was to investigate factors affecting adoption of rainwater harvesting techniques in…

RUF-35369 2012 CC BY 4.0 21 Sep 2015

Gregory Ndwandwa Sikumba

The cost of feed is one of the major constraints to dairy cattle production in sub-Saharan Africa. East Africa dairy development project is promoting several feed technologies for dairy cattle in order to reduce costs and increase milk pro…

RUF-35357 2013 CC BY 4.0 21 Sep 2015

Gabriel Otieno Okello

Dose-response studies in arthropod research usually involve observing and collecting successive information at different times on the same group of organisms (insects) exposed to different concentrations of stimulus such as botanical extra…

RUF-35355 2013 CC BY 4.0 21 Sep 2015

Godfrey Vianney Bwogi

Banana failure among smallholder farmers resulting from high incidence of banana weevils and other pests and diseases has resulted into a poverty trap for farmers, food insecurity and reduced economic growth among the banana producing comm…

RUF-35347 2013 CC BY 4.0 21 Sep 2015

Anthony Raymond Epel

Researchers are often times confronted with compositional data in insect choice studies. The choice of a statistical method to model this type of data is always not obvious. In this study, three approaches for analysis of compositional dat…

RUF-35342 2013 CC BY 4.0 21 Sep 2015

Paul Murima Ng’ang’a

The availability of a large variety of elementary and complex statistical methods and the quick pace of change and development in statistics makes most researchers' statistical knowledge insufficient for them to be independent. It is unrea…

RUF-35327 2011 CC BY 4.0 21 Sep 2015