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Item Agricultural Machinery Specialist Committee 1969(Kenya Agriculture Research Institute, 1969) Kenya Agriculture Research InstituteOver the next fifteen years, the volume of exotic soft woods available in Kenya will double every five years. For various reasons it is likely that. the caw mills used to convert this timber will be relatively small, labour intensive units. The equipment required to operate such mills is simple to design. and manufacture, and could be manufactured in East Africa. In this paper, specifications for two basic machines are drawn up, one a conventional circular saw heading, the other a more complex double log edger. If sufficient interest is shown in either of these' projects, the University College, Nairobi would be prepared to undertake the design of one of the machines. The possibility of using a double log edger to produce sawn planks is outlined as this might lead to improved timber quality and high conversion ratios at the expense of producing odd sized planks.Item The Agriculture Research Fund: Competitive Research Grants Programme(Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, 1999) Kenya Agricultural Research Institute; The Agriculture Research Fund; Kenya Agricultural Research InstituteThe agricultural scientific community in Kenya is much larger than the scientific community within the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARl). The need to involve the larger scientific community in agricultural research and development was identified during the reorganization and rationalization of the agricultural research system in 1986. Consequently, the Agricultural Research Fund (ARF) was established as a discrete entity within KARl to provide a mechanism through which scientists from other institutions (both public and private) as well as individual scientists can complement and/or supplement KARl efforts in agricultural research. The ARF is managed, on behalf of the KARl Board of Management, by the Research Fund Management Committee (RFMC).Item DFID British Council Trianing Programme August 1988(Kenya Agriculture Research Programmes, 1998) Kenya Agriculture Research ProgrammesThe course was enjoyed by and beneficial to the participants. All the objectives outlined in the terms of reference were achieved and the participants received adequate training and practice in all a'Spects of scientific communication.However to maintain the momentum initiated by the course KETRI staff shouldcontinue to work to improve their skills. In particular they should be motivatedItem The East African Agriculture and Forestry Research Organization(1951) Keen, B.A.; The East African Agriculture and Forestry Research OrganizationThe headquarters and a laboratory of the East and Forestry Research Organization at Kikuyu, Kenya, formally opened by the Right Hon. James Griffiths, Secretary of State for the Colonies, during his recent visit to East Africa, were built with money provided from the research allocation of the funds made available by the Colonial Development and Welfare Acts. Although neither the initiation nor the stimulation of research into colonial problems are new ideas in British Colonial policy the work of the Imperial Institute and of the short-lived Empire Marketing Board affords evidence of this the idea of regional research organizations serving a group of contiguous Colonies is a relatively new conception. The British Colonies lend themselves to this idea, forming such obvious groups as Malaya, West, East, and Central Africa, and the West Indies. The Colonies within a group have many common problems, and it is obviously more efficient and more economical of men and money to conduct on a regional basis the researches required.Item Kenya Vision 2030(The Government of Kenya, 2007) Government of the Republic of Kenya (GOK); Ministry of Planning and National Development; The National Economic and Social Council (NESC)Under the guidance of the Economic Recovery Strategy for Wealth and employment Creation (ERS), the Kenyan economy has recovered and resumed the path to rapid growth. The economy is expected to grow by more than 6 per cent in 2007 from 0.6 per cent in 2002. The growth has been widely distributed, covering all economic and social sectors and resulting in reduction in poverty levels from 56 per cent in 2002 to 46 per cent in 2006. This growth has not only impacted positively on education, health, gender, and environment, but also provided more resources to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) across the economy. Currently, more resources have been devolved to the local level through schemes such as the Constituency Development Fund, the Local Authority Transfer Fund, the Constituency Bursary Fund, and the Constituency Aids Fund among others. Despite the development registered under the ERS, the country continues to face constraints including poor infrastructure, inadequate institutional reforms and inefficiency in production at firm and household levels. On the whole, Kenyans have reason to be satisfied by the results even though much remains to be done. ERS expires in December 2007 and Kenya will embark on a new long-term vision to guide her development in the next 25 years. Kenya Vision 2030 is the new long-term development blueprint for the country. It is motivated by a collective aspiration for a better society by the year 2030. The aim of Kenya Vision 2030 is to create "a globally competitive and prosperous country with a high quality of life by 2030". It aims to transform Kenya into "a newly-indus- trialising, middle-income country providing a high qual- ity of life to all its citizens in a clean and secure environ- ment". Simultaneously, the Vision aspires to meet the MDGs for Kenyans by 2015. The Vision is a product of a highly participatory, consultative and inclusive stake- holders' process carried out between October 2006 and May 2007. Specifically, the process involved interna- tional and local experts, ordinary Kenyans and stake- holders from all parts of the country. Between July and August 2007, the contents of the Vision 2030 were again subjected to open consultations in all provinces in Kenya, before the document was finalised. The Vision is anchored on three key pillars: economic; social; and political governance. The economic pillar aims to achieve an average economic growth rate of 10 per cent per annum and sustaining the same till 2030 in order to generate more resources to meet the MDGs and vision goals. The Vision has identified a number of flagship projects in every sector to be implemented over the Vision period and to facilitate the desired growth rate. The identified flagship projects directly address priorities in key sectors such as agriculture, education, health, water and the environment. The social pillar seeks to create a just, cohesive and equi- table social development in a clean and secure environ- ment. The political pillar aims to realise an issue-based, people-centered, result-oriented and accountable democratic system.
