Dr. Rebecca Yegon Publications

Publications

• 1. Kogo, T. M., Yegon, R. J., Mairura, F. S. & Migose, S. A. (2026). Determinants of Fodder Conservation Technologies in Smallholder Dairy Farming Systems in Peri-Urban Areas of Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya. Journal of Global Innovations in Agricultural Sciences, 14 (x) xx.
  2. Laub, M., Necpalova, M., Van de Broek, M., Corbeels, M., Lee, J., Mucheru-Muna, M. W., Mugendi, D., Ndungu, S. M., Yegon, R., Waswa, W., Vanlauwe, B., & Six, J. (2026). The potential to increase maize yields and mitigate climate change by adopting integrated soil fertility management across different regions in Kenya — A simulation study. Agricultural Systems, 231, 104477. Available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308521X25002173?via%3Dihub
  3. Laub, M., Corbeels, M., MacLaren, C., Ndungu, S. M., Mucheru-Muna, M. W., Mugendi, D., Vanlauwe, B., Waswa, W., Yegon, R & Six, J. (2025). Maize yield responses to soil organic carbon under integrated soil fertility management in tropical environments. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 45, 63. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-025-01054-x
  4. Wittkamp, T., Defraeye, T., Yegon, R., & Onwude, D. (2025). Enhancing postharvest storage in low-and middle-income countries: Evaluation of the passive evaporative cooling blanket for fruits and vegetables. Energy for Sustainable Development, 88, 101787. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0973082625001371
  5. Yego, N. C., Nyambane, C. O., Yegon, R., & Kiprotich, S. (2025). Physicochemical and Heavy Metal Characterization of River Kapingazi in Embu County, Kenya. Research in Ecology, (7), 3: 104-114
  6. Kogo, T.K., Yegon, R., Nthiwa, D. and Migose, S.A. (2024). Strategies of positive deviants in fodder conservation among smallholder dairy farming systems in highlands and midlands of Kenya. Tropical Animal Health Production 56, 345 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-024-04189-3
  7. Laub, M., Necpalova, M., Van de Broek, M., Corbeels, M., Ndungu, S. M., Mucheru-Muna, M. W., Mugendi, D., Yegon, R., Waswa, W., Vanlauwe, B., and Six, J. (2024). Modeling integrated soil fertility management for maize production in Kenya using a Bayesian calibration of the DayCent model, Biogeosciences, 21, 3691–3716. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-3691-2024.
  8. Irungu, I.F., Yegon, R. & Muniale, F.M. (2024). Determinants for rainwater harvesting adoption: a case study of smallholder farmers in Murang’a County, Kenya. Sustainable Water Resources Management 10, 126 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40899-024-01104-4
  9. Laub., M., Corbels, M., Ndungu, S. M., Mucheru-Muna, M., Mugendi, D., Yegon, R., Waswa, W., Vanlauwe, B & Six, J. (2024). Shifting Focus from External to In-situ Organic Resources-The Redesign of Four Tropical Long-Term experiments. European Journal of Agronomy, 157, 127194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2024.127194
  10. Njiru, L.G., Yegon, J.R., Mwithiga, G., Micheni, A. Gitari, N. J. & Mairura, F.S. (2023). Restoring soil nutrient stocks using local inputs, tillage and sorghum-green gram intercropping strategies for drylands in Eastern Kenya. Heliyon, 9, (10), e20926, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e20926.
  11. Kogo, T., Yegon, R., & Migose, S.A. (2022). Characterization of Fodder Conservation Technologies among Farmers in Tharaka-Nithi County, Kenya. East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal 86 (1-2): 123-135
  12. Mochache, M., Yegon, R & Ngetich, O. (2021). Performance of Vermicomposted Wastes from Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) Production: A Case study of Embu, Kenya. International Journal of Recycling Organic Waste in Agriculture 10: 363-377
  13. Yegon, R., Isaboke, H. N., Mrema, G. C and Mtakwa, P. (2020). Economics of Planting Pits under Sorghum and Pigeon Pea in Semi-Arid Areas of Eastern Kenya. Agricultural Socio-economics Journal 1: 15-22

  https://doi.org/10.21776/ub.agrise.2020.020.1.3

  14. Mochache, M., Yegon, R and Wakindiki, I. I. C. (2020). Market Town Household Solid Waste Management: A Case Study of Embu, Kenya. Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management 24 (1): 105-109 https://doi.org/10.4314/jasem.v24i1.15
  15. Mochache M, Yegon R, Ngetich O, P. (2019). Vermicomposting Kitchen, Municipal Market and Tea Factory Waste using Eisenia fetida Earthworms. International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology 4(3), 865-873
  16. Yegon, R., Mtakwa, P.W., Mrema, G.C and Ngetich, F.K. (2016). Planting Pits effects on Soil Nutrients in a Sorghum and Pigeon Pea Rotation in Semi-Arid Areas of Eastern Kenya. International Journal of Plant and Soil Science 13(5): 1-10

  https://doi.org/10.9734/IJPSS/2016/30127

  17. Phiri, A. T., Muindi, E. M., Omollo, J. O., Yegon, R. and Kausiwa, D. (2016). Inoculated Soybean Yields Response to Nitrogen and Phosphorus Application. International Journal of Soil and Plant Science 10 (5):1-7
  18. Wakindiki, I.I.C and Yegon R. (2011). Effect of Decomposition Intensity of Incorporated Chickpea Manure on Stability and Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity of a Clay Loam and Clay Soil. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 6 (5): 1120-1127.