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Levis Kavagi
Affiliation : United Nations Environment Programme
- 19Publications (affiliation in Kenya)
Research profile
Levis Kavagi has 19 indexed publications (2017–2025). Their work appears mainly in “Agricultural Water Management”, “Resources Conservation and Recycling” and “Field Crops Research”. Their most cited article, “Ridge-furrow plastic-mulching with balanced fertilization in rainfed maize (Zea mays L.): An adaptive management in east African Plateau” (2017), has been cited 193 times. 7 of these publications date from the last three years of activity. Their work is co-authored with at least 6 researchers, including institutions in China.
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- Long-term intercropping mitigates warming-induced carbon loss via enhancing microbial and substrate resistance
- Weakening plasticulture boosts maize productivity while improving environmental benefits in drying east African Plateau
- Long-term cereal-legume intercropping accelerates soil organic carbon loss in subsoil of dryland
- Microplastics positively mediate soil multifunctionality in dryland
- Straw incorporating in shallow soil layer improves field productivity by impacting soil hydrothermal conditions and maize reproductive allocation in semiarid east African Plateau
- Plastic footprint deteriorates dryland carbon footprint across soil–plant-atmosphere continuum
- Uncollected polythene fragments size-dependently alter soil multifunctionality via mediating bacterial drivers in dryland
- Environmental and Economic Impacts of Biodegradable Plastic Film Mulching on Rainfed Maize: Evaluations on Sustainability and Productivity
- Responses of rainfed wheat productivity to varying ridge-furrow size and ratio in semiarid eastern African Plateau
- Density-dependent maize (Zea mays L.) yield increase in trade-off in reproductive allocation and water use under ridge-furrow plastic-mulching
- Dual plastic film and straw mulching boosts wheat productivity and soil quality under the El Nino in semiarid Kenya
- Fully biodegradable film to boost rainfed maize (Zea mays L.) production in semiarid Kenya: An environmentally friendly perspective
- Allometric relationship and yield formation in response to planting density under ridge-furrow plastic mulching in rainfed wheat
- Water productivity and its allometric mechanism in mulching cultivated maize (Zea mays L.) in semiarid Kenya
- Ridge–furrow with grass straw mulching farming system to boost rainfed wheat productivity and water use efficiency in semiarid Kenya
- Environmental and economic benefits of micro–field rain–harvesting farming system at maize (Zea mays L.) field scale in semiarid east African Plateau
- Ridge-furrow plastic-mulching with balanced fertilization in rainfed maize (Zea mays L.): An adaptive management in east African Plateau
- Yield-phenology relations and water use efficiency of maize (Zea mays L.) in ridge-furrow mulching system in semiarid east African Plateau
- Phenological evidence from China to address rapid shifts in global flowering times with recent climate change
Publication venues
- Agricultural Water Management × 3
- Resources Conservation and Recycling × 2
- Field Crops Research × 2
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology × 2
- Soil Biology and Biochemistry × 1
- Journal of Cleaner Production × 1
Publications per year
- 20252
- 20245
- 20221
- 20212
- 20205
- 20181
- 20173
Collaborations
Partner institutions : Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology · Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization · State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems · Lanzhou University · South Eastern Kenya University
Co-authors’ countries : China
Co-authors
- David Mwehia Mburu
- Aggrey Bernard Nyende
- Simon Nguluu
- Wesly Kiprotich Cheruiyot
- Patrick Thuku Gicheru
- Charles W. Kariuki
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