The lead applicant: Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Kenya Project title: Bio-enhanced seeds and seedlings for East Africa Budget requested from Bio-Innovate and project duration: 502,028 ...

Hagenia is an endangered monotypic genus endemic to the topical mountains of Africa. The only species, Hagenia abyssinica (Bruce) J.F. Gmel, is an important medicinal plant producing bioactive compounds that have been ...

Setting: Tuberculosis (TB) patients attending 16 public health facilities in Nairobi, Kenya. OBJECTIVE: To determine the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tuberculosis) strain families circulating in Nairobi, Kenya. Methods: ...

Background: The World Health Organization recommends Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination against tuberculosis be given at birth. However, in many developing countries, pre-term and low birth weight infants ...

Many low- and middle-income countries are undergoing a nutrition transition associated with rapid social and economic transitions. We explore the coexistence of over and undernutrition at the neighborhood and household ...

Indigenous chickens provide large proportion of quality protein in human diet in terms of meat and eggs. Indigenous chicken are reared under the free range system. Commercial chickens produce much more meat and eggs; but ...

Agricultural activities form the backborne of Kenya´s economy. Inorder to control crop losses, pesticides are used and in the recent past, more of the pesticides have been used to increase production. However, the effect ...

Kiwifruit is classified as climacteric fruit as exogenous ethylene induces fruit ripening. However, we recently found that ‘Sanuki Gold’ (SG) fruit stored at low temperature (5°C) ripened faster than fruit at room temperature ...

Poultry production is a major source of livelihood to many Kenyans with a significant role in nutrition and food security. Wild birds have been harvested from forests and consumed for long because of health claims but the ...