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The following is a list of ecoregions in Kenya, as identified by the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF). Terrestrial ecoregions. by major habitat type.
Agroecology is a scientific discipline, movement and practice that integrates ecology in agriculture with strong emphasis on diversification, food sovereignty, energy efficiency and sustainability. Agroecological practices apply the systems and knowledge that traditional farmers in the region have developed and inherited.
East & Horn of Africa CoP (Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda) The E&HAf CoP aims to improve performance of farming systems primarily through support for crop diversification, for crop improvement and diversification, and an emphasis on management strategies that enhance crop access to scarce soil nutrients and water resources and reduce pest and ...
Buttel identifies four varieties of agroecology in a 2003 conference paper. The main varieties he calls ecosystem agroecology which he claims derives from the ecosystem ecology of Howard T. Odum and focuses less on the rural sociology, and agronomic agroecology which he identifies as being oriented towards developing knowledge and practices to ...
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Agriculture in Kenya dominates Kenya's economy. [1] 15–17 percent of Kenya's total land area has sufficient fertility and rainfall to be farmed, and 7–8 percent can be classified as first-class land. [2] [3] In 2006, almost 75 percent of working Kenyans made their living by farming, compared with 80 percent in 1980. [2]
It can refer to the naturally occurring genetic variability within and between populations of a species, for example wild relatives of food crops, or to the variability created by humans, for example farmer-developed traditional crop varieties called landraces, or commercially bred varieties of a crop (e.g. different apple varieties: Fuji ...
List of sugar manufacturers in Kenya; O. Olor; S. Shamba (agroforestry system) T. Tea production in Kenya This page was last edited on 26 January 2020, at 18:36 ...