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New Toilet Provides Solution to Persons with Disabilities
By Joseph Maina
Persons with disabilities (PWDs) face multiple challenges when trying to access conventional toilet facilities. This is because most of them are designed...
Low Uptake of HIV Self-testing among the Youth
By Sharon Atieno
Though Kenya is making tremendous progress in HIV self-testing, the youth, among other target populations, are still left behind. This is partly...
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Bungoma County: Youth Venture Provides Farmers with Market Access
By Peter Oliver Ochieng
For 10 years now, Fred Masinde has practiced tomato and water melon farming in his farm at Pinnacle area, Kanduyi Constituency in Bungoma County. He rotates the two crops each planting...
Bayer Develops Herbicide for Cassava to Tackle Weeds and Raise Yields
With weeds being a major constraint to increased cassava productivity in African countries, Bayer, a multinational pharmaceutical company, has developed and launched a new crop protection product to help farmers tackle the problem and...
Africa: Key Drivers for Agricultural Transformation Need to be Strengthened
By Vanessa Akoth
Innovative technologies, public and private partnerships, product deployment and incentive driven enabling environment are key drivers that should be strengthened to build a sustainable agricultural transformation in Africa’s food systems.
These remarks were...
Food Vendors in Kisumu Turn to Sawdust as Fuel to Save Forests
By Koffi Barry (Science Africa Correspondent)
Forest cover in Kisumu County stands at less than one percent -0.44%- according to a recent forest mapping making it one of the counties with the lowest forest cover...
