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Willis O. Owino

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

P.O. Box 62000

Nairobi, 00200

Kenya

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Scholarly Papers (4)

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Harnessing cactus biomass for biogas and biofertilizer production under temporal fermentation strategies

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Harnessing cactus biomass for biogas and biofertilizer production under temporal fermentation strategies

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 08 Nov 2025
Kenneth Tembe Oduor, Jose Dubeux, Willis O. Owino, Lynn E. Sollenberger, Nicolas DiLorenzo, Adegbola Adesogan, Aurel Siebert, Igor Lima Bretas, Martin Ruiz-Moreno, Marilia A. Bernardini, Luana Queiroz, Kevin R. Trumpp, Javier P. Acuna, Mario A. Lira Junior, Beatriz Elisa Bizzuti and Flavia F. Simili
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Bio-energy, Bio-fertilizer, Opuntia, Invasive species, Renewable energy

Harnessing cactus biomass for biogas and biofertilizer production under temporal fermentation strategies

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 28 Apr 2026
Kenneth Tembe Oduor, Jose Dubeux, Willis O. Owino, Lynn E. Sollenberger, Nicolas DiLorenzo, Adegbola Adesogan, Aurel Siebert, Igor Bretas, Martin Ruiz-Moreno, Marilia A. Bernardini, Luana Queiroz, Kevin R. Trumpp, Javier P. Acuna, Mario A. Lira Junior, Beatriz Elisa Bizzuti and Flavia F. Simili
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Bio-energy, Bio-fertilizer, Opuntia, Invasive species, Renewable energy, Valorization

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Mapping Invasive Opuntia Stricta in Kenya's Drylands Using Explainable Machine Learning with Time-Series Remote Sensing and Geographic Context

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 03 Jun 2025
Jiayi Song, Chang Zhao, Kenneth Tembe Oduor, Hao-Yu Liao, Zhou Tang, Igor Lima Bretas, Srikantnag Angondalli Nagaraja, Jose Dubeux, Willis O. Owino and Wei Shao
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Opuntia stricta, invasive plant species, Sentinel-2 time series, climate seasonality, geographic context, spatial validation, Random Forest-SHAP

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Drivers of low-income consumer and retailer demand for selected processed fruits and vegetables in Kenya

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 11 Dec 2025
Willis O. Owino, Peter Kinyanjui Kahenya, Elizabeth Nakhungu Wafula and Geoffrey Otieno
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Mango, tomato, indigenous leafy green vegetables, low-income consumers, demand

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Animal performance and in vitro fermentation responses to cactus-based pellets in male Galla goats in semi-arid Kenya

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 06 May 2026
Kenneth Tembe Oduor, Jose Dubeux, Willis O. Owino, Lynn E. Sollenberger, Nicolas DiLorenzo, Adegbola Adesogan, Gleise Medeiros da Silva, Igor L. Bretas, Ignacio Fernandez, Luana Queiroz, Kevin R. Trumpp and Martin Ruiz-Moreno
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goat nutrition, invasive species management, feed supplementation, drought resilience, dryland pastoral systems