Vulnerability and adaptation strategies to drought and erratic rains as key extreme events: Insights from small scale farming households in mixed crop agro ecosystems of semi-arid eastern Kenya

Borona Mwenda; Dionysius Kiambi; James Kungu; Jeske Van De Gevel; Carlo Farda; Yasuyuki Morimoto

doi:10.5897/AJAR2018.13568

African Journal of
Agricultural Research

Abbreviation: Afr. J. Agric. Res.
Language: English
ISSN: 1991-637X
DOI: 10.5897/AJAR
Start Year: 2006
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Vulnerability and adaptation strategies to drought and erratic rains as key extreme events: Insights from small scale farming households in mixed crop agro ecosystems of semi-arid eastern Kenya

Borona Mwenda

Borona Mwenda
Department of Environmental Sciences, Kenyatta University, P. O. Box 62837-00200, Nairobi, Kenya.
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Dionysius Kiambi

Dionysius Kiambi
Director of Research, Pan African Christian University, P. O. Box 56875-0020 Nairobi, Kenya.
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James Kungu

James Kungu
Department of Environmental Sciences, Kenyatta University, P. O. Box 62837-00200, Nairobi, Kenya.
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Jeske Van De Gevel

Jeske Van De Gevel
Bioversity International-East and Southern Africa Office C/O World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), P. O. Box 30677, Nairobi 00100, Kenya.
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Carlo Farda

Carlo Farda
Bioversity International-East and Southern Africa Office C/O World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), P. O. Box 30677, Nairobi 00100, Kenya.
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Yasuyuki Morimoto

Yasuyuki Morimoto
Bioversity International-East and Southern Africa Office C/O World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), P. O. Box 30677, Nairobi 00100, Kenya.
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Article Number - 331696360674
Vol.14(15), pp. 712-728 , April 2019
https://doi.org/10.5897/AJAR2018.13568

Received: 24 September 2018
Accepted: 11 February 2019
Published: 11 April 2019

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Authors

Borona Mwenda
Department of Environmental Sciences, Kenyatta University, P. O. Box 62837-00200, Nairobi, Kenya.

Dionysius Kiambi
Director of Research, Pan African Christian University, P. O. Box 56875-0020 Nairobi, Kenya.

James Kungu
Department of Environmental Sciences, Kenyatta University, P. O. Box 62837-00200, Nairobi, Kenya.

Jeske Van De Gevel
Bioversity International-East and Southern Africa Office C/O World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), P. O. Box 30677, Nairobi 00100, Kenya.

Carlo Farda
Bioversity International-East and Southern Africa Office C/O World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), P. O. Box 30677, Nairobi 00100, Kenya.

Yasuyuki Morimoto
Bioversity International-East and Southern Africa Office C/O World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), P. O. Box 30677, Nairobi 00100, Kenya.

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