Kenya

Imported Inorganic Chemical Elements, Oxides and Halogen Salts in Kenya, 2002 

Country of Origin Rank Value (000 US ) % Share Cumulative % 

Source Philip M. PARKER, Professor, INSEAD, copyright 2002, www.icongrouponline.com 

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B. H. Baker, Geology of the Magadi Area, Geological Survey of Kenya, Report 42. 

Montreal Protocol, United Nations Environmental Program, Pts. I, II, III, United Nations Ozone Secretariat, Nairobi, Kenya, 1994. 

Instant tea is manufactured in the United States, Japan, Kenya, Chile, Sri Lanka, India, and China. Production and consumption in the United States is greater than in the rest of the world. World production capacity of instant teas depends on market demand but is in the range of 8,000 to 11,000 t/yr (3). The basic process for manufacture of instant tea as a soluble powder from dry tea leaf includes extraction, concentration, and drying. In practice, the process is considerably more compHcated because of the need to preserve the volatile aroma fraction, and produce a product which provides color yet is soluble in cold water, all of which are attributes important to iced tea products (88). 

Other Methods. Instant tea may also be prepared by directiy extracting fermented leaf before the firing stage. These processes, only suited for practice in the tea-growing countries, have been carried out on a small scale in Sri Lanka, India, and Kenya (101). 

The Africa/Middle-East Working Group represents Crop Protection Industiy Associations in Cameroun, Cote d Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Morocco and Syria. 

Anacardium occidentalle L. Cashew nut shell Anacardic acid, Cardanol, Brazil, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria... 

U.S. homes are powered entirely by PV. A large number of homes in Japan, where consumer electricity rates are three times higher than in the U.S., have roof-integrated PV systems. Half a million PV systems have been installed in developing countries by the World Bank. More than 10,000 have been installed in Sri Lanka, 60,000 in Indonesia, 150,000 in Kenya, 85,000 in Zimbabwe, 40,000 in Mexico, and... 

Although more people are being fed than ever before, there are also more malnourished humans than ever before. Thus, more than 1.6 billion of the 5.3 billion people living today are malnourished and do not have access to adequate supplies of food (3), Clearly, a malnourished person cannot lead a fully productive life. The plight of these people is more serious than just a lack of adequate food, for many are ill with disease and/or carry heavy loads of parasites. For example, a survey of school children in Kwale District, Kenya showed that 96% were infected with hookworms, 50% with roundworms, 95% with whipworms, and 40% with schistosomiasis... 

Public Health Impact of Pesticides Used in Agriculture Report of a WHO/UNEP Working Group World Health Organization Geneva, Switzerland, United Nations Environment Programme Nairobi, Kenya. 

Soil water flow is decidedly episodic. During dry times the water solutions in the soil are probably fairly concentrated and not very reactive. Time-averaged reaction rates should be roughly proportional to the fraction of time reacting minerals are in contact with thermodynamically imdersaturated (and reactive) water. In a study of the relationship between denudation rate and runoff for rivers draining igneous and metamorphic rock in Kenya, Dunne (1978) obtains the relationship of (denudation rate in tons/km per year) = 0.28 (runoff in mm/ year)°. ... 

Morgan, M.E., Kingston, J.D. and Marino, B.D. 1994 Carbon isotopic evidence for the emergence of C, plants in the Neogenc from Pakistan and Kenya. Nature 367 162-165. 

Bone and tooth enamel from modem animals were collected in 1984 and 1993 from skeletons exposed on the surface in Sibiloi National Park, located on the east shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. In addition to its interest as the site of numerous fossil hominid discoveries, the Turkana area provides an ideal controlled situation for the present study. The park is a circumscribed area surrounded by human pastoral groups and the nondomestic fauna remain to a great extent within its confines. Water sources are limited to the lake, ephemeral streams, a limited number of waterholes, and the plants eaten by the animals. The streams last on the order of days and in dry years do not flow at all. The non-domestic animals from which the bone and enamel were collected likely obtained most of their drinking water from the lake itself Domestic animals entered the park in 1984 during a severe drought. Their drinking water sources may have varied widely. 

Table 6.2. Phosphate 8 0 and collagen 5 C values of tooth enamel and bone of mammals from Sibiloi National Park, East Turkana, Kenya.

Feibel, C. 1988 Paleoemironments of the Koobi Fora Formation, Turkana Basin, Northern Kenya. Ph.D. dissertation. Salt Lake City University of Utah. 

Johnson, T.C., Halfman, J.D. and Showers, W.J. 1991 Paleoclimate of the past 4000 years at Lake Turkana, Kenya, based on the isotopie eomposition of authigenie ealeite. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 85 189-198. 

Yuretich, R.F. and Cerling, T.E. 1983 Hydrogeochemistry of Lake Turkana, Kenya mass balance and mineral reactions in an alkaline lake. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 47 1099-1109. 

Seven diets were constructed from purified natural ingredients obtained from either C3 (beet sugar, rice starch, cottonseed oil, wood cellulose, Australian Cohuna brand casein, soy protein or wheat gluten for protein) or C4 foodwebs (cane sugar, corn starch, com oil, processed corn bran for fiber, Kenya casein for protein) supplemented with appropriate amounts of vitamins and minerals (Ambrose and Norr 1993 Table 3a). The amino acid compositions of wheat gluten and soy protein differ significantly from that of casein (Ambrose and Norr 1993). 

Koch, P. Behrensmeyer, A.P. and Fogel, M.L. 1991 The isotopic ecology of plants and animals in Amhoseli National Park, Kenya. Annual Report of the Director, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution, Washington D.C. 1990-1991 163-171. 

Ambrose, S.H. DeNiro, M.J. (1989). Climate and habitat reconstruction using stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of collagen in prehistoric herbivore teeth from Kenya. Quaternary Research 31,407-422. 

Koeman, J.H. and Pennings, J.H. (1970). An orientational survey on the side effects and environmental distribution of dieldrin in a tse-tse control in S.W. Kenya. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 5, 164—170. 

In 1914, two European immigrants, Karen Blixen and her husband, established a coffee plantation outside of Nairobi in what is now Kenya. Conditions seemed perfect for coffee, as both the altitude and latitude closely matched that of Colombia, a highly successful coffee-growing country. Nevertheless, the coffee plants withered and eventually died, because the soil in that part of Kenya is too acidic for coffee plants to flourish. Blixen eventually became famous as the author of Out of Africa, which was made into an Oscar-winning movie. 

Hulsman, T. H. J. "Hemoglobin Kenya, the Product of a Gamma-beta Fusion Gene Studies of the Family". Am. J. Hum. Genet., (1973), 548. 

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