to grow to 30 meters or more. That is one reason there are only a limited number of Prunus Africana found in Kenya‚ Uganda‚ and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The extraction of pulverized‚ dark bark of Prunus Africana is the reason for high demand on these trees for production of drugs for prostate issues. The Prunus Africana is currently being harvested out of eastern highlands of Kenya in the Aberdares Mountains. The Aberdares Mountains are the home to the Kikuyu Tribe‚ the largest ethnic tribe
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online | | Video service | | Online photos | | Fact sheets | | Media contacts | | Archives | | | Hybrid oil palms bear fruit in western Kenya | FAO project improves incomes and diets‚ and may reduce imports of food oil | 24 November 2003‚ Rome — A cold-tolerant‚ high-yielding oil palm being promoted by FAO in western Kenya could be a boon to small-scale farmers and industrial producers alike‚ increasing incomes improving diets‚ reducing imports of food oil and providing much-needed
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global poverty? New York Times [online]. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13anthropology-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 [Accessed 13 January 2014]. Ehidiamen‚ J.‚ 2013 Gatehouse‚ G.‚ 2012. How much will technology boom change Kenya? [online]. Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19903839 [Accessed 14 January 2014]. Hughes‚ N.‚ & Lonie‚ S.‚ 2007 Idowu‚ B.‚ Ogunbodede‚ E.‚ & Idowu‚ B.‚ 2003. Information and Communication Technology in Nigeria The Health Sector
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Primary education In pursuit of attaining Primary Education for All by 2015‚ the Government introduced Primary Education (PE) in January 2003. The programme is prioritized in the Kenya Education Sector Support Programme (KESSP I&II)‚ 2005-2010 and 2010-2015 through which the government and development partners‚ principally the Joint Financing Agreement partners ‘operationalize’ the sector budget. Further‚ Sessional Paper No 1 of 2005 on Policy for Education. Training and Research regards the implementation
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IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON THE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FUNCTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A CASE STUDY OF KENYA PUBLIC CORPORATIONS Hazel Gachoka Gachunga1 Abstract Globalization has a major impact on the management of human resources in developing countries including Kenya. It has led to homogenization and convergence in organization strategies‚ structures and processes as well as in consumer choice. With accelerating globalization‚ organizations have had to change and new trends have set in even
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number of ] subscribers in developing countries… now represent (s) the majority of 2.4 billion mobile phone users worldwide”. The Kenyan mobile phone market is no exception and has been described as being one of the fastest growing industries in Kenya (Karobia‚ C‚ (2006)). Since competition is usually related to the supply and demand of products‚ the following graph is presented: Figure1: Fixed Line Subscribers versus Mobile Phone Subscribers (Source: MIT 2008) Figure 1 shows that from 1994
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION a) BACKGROUND Kenya is one of the less Developed countries that are endowed with relatively good levels of resources and labor. However‚ there are still a lot to be done to tap those resources into viable productivity and industrialization levels. One way of achieving this is by maximizing the use of both physical and human capital. In or case we shall consider human capital. Human capital‚ according to Adam Smith refers to the acquired and useful abilities of all
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HISTORY OF DEVOLUTION. Devolution in Kenya dates back in the day‚ all through to the constitution 2010. This chapter will explain in details devolution as it was and as it is today. Kenya as a country has undergone a series of changes in devolution up to this day of the constitution 2010 2.1. THE MAJIMBO The highly centralized bureaucracy which Kenya inherited at independence from the colonial administration had chiefly been sustained through the installation of the Provincial Administration. The
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hours after dark using thermal storage. CSP plants can only be built in arid flat areas with a high annual solar radiation rating. Many countries can benefit from CSP including oil dependent countries like Saudi Arabia and third world countries like Kenya. Introduction Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)‚ also known as solar thermal power is a renewable energy source that uses the Sun’s radiation to produce electricity. There are three different types of CSP plants. One type is a parabolic trough
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-B65/38725/2011 * HAJI SULEIMAN -B65/3569/2011 INTRODUCTION. Kenya vision 2030 is Kenya’s long-term national planning strategy stating the main goals of economic‚ social and political pillars that underpin the vision 2030. It also provides a rundown of flagship projects to be embarked upon in the medium term period of the vision (2008-2012). It is the country’s development foundation store that covers 2008-2030. It aims at making Kenya a new industrial‚ middle income country providing high quality
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