This article examines local community strategies and challenges to climate change adaptation in the semi arid areas of Dodoma region in Tanzania. The data for the article was collected using household survey, focus group ...

Onset, cessation and length of growing season statistics are generated for both long and short rainy seasons in western Kenya. Onset identification is based on a daily analysis of the soil water balance over the initial ...

Kenya relies mainly on rain-fed agriculture for crop production, which has major limitations arising from seasonal variability of rainfall, onset, cessation and growing length. In this study, the growing season characteristics ...

Multivariate techniques can infer intrinsic characteristics of complex data by generating correlation, similarity, dissimilarity, and covariance vector matrix to ascertain their relationships. The study evaluated the effect ...

The broad objective of this study was to test Deficit Irrigation (DI) as an appropriate irrigation management strategy to improve crop water productivity and give optimum onion crop yield. A field trial was conducted ...

Dry and wet sowing methods of rainfed maize in Trans Nzoia and Uasin Gishu districts, a major grain belt in Kenya, were evaluated. The evaluation is based on a daily analysis of soil water balance over the initial growth ...

Growing scientific evidence suggests that climate change will accelerate weather extremes and increase human vulnerability to disasters. Exposure of agro-pastoralists to erratic rainfall and cyclical droughts leads to ...

Variability in agro-climatic parameters is increasingly a source of concern in the rainfed agricultural regions of the world. To a large extent, Kenya relies on rainfed agriculture for her food requirements. However, the ...

The exponential rise in urban population and the resulting urban waste generation in developing countries over the past few decades, and the resulting accelerated urbanization phenomenon has brought to the fore the necessity ...

This paper develops a dynamic programming optimisation model that considers the competition of crops in a season, both for irrigation water and cultivated area. Decision variables are the cultivated area and water allocated ...