Education is universally accepted as a critical element for human development. It simultaneously addresses ignorance, poverty and disease. It empowers the individual and the society especially when it is accessed by women. This book looks at the reducing effect of maternal education on the risk of infant and child mortality in rural Kenya. In exerting its influence, maternal education works through enhanced hygiene, modern medical practices, environmental health, economic empowerment and adequate nutritional practices. In this book, Dr. Kiptui argues that education has a reducing effect on...
Education is universally accepted as a critical element for human development. It simultaneously addresses ignorance, poverty and disease. It empowers...
This book critically and systematically explores the diverse coping strategies employed by dry land communities, in Marigat and Baringo Districts, in Kenya, on the premise that locally evolved, long tested and proven survival mechanisms will not only inform but sustainably reinforce dry lands development programmes and policies. The author argues that many Western scientific informed development activities in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands have largely failed across the globe. The book focuses on dry land communities' coping strategies during extended dry periods/seasons and related drought-induced...
This book critically and systematically explores the diverse coping strategies employed by dry land communities, in Marigat and Baringo Districts, in ...
