Kenya and Climate change
- Capital:
Nairobi - Population:
40046566 - Size:
582650.0 Km2
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- The Adaptation Learning Mechanism
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- Search country-specific adaptation profiles from the Adaptation Learning Mechanism
- Farmers’ Knowledge and Climate Change Adaptation: Insights from Policy Processes in Kenya ...
- A. Newsham / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011
- Policy Brief 42 One major policy challenge for the agricultural sector is to make sure that lessons from farmers’ knowledge and experience are informing emerging climate change policy processes. This briefing paper reports...
- Community-based Knowledge of Indigenous Vegetation in Arid African Landscapes
- A. Angassa 2012
- This article is based on comparative research conducted in three African countries—Mali, Botswana and Kenya—between 2006 and 2007. The research focuses on local perceptions of biodiversity loss and land degradation in grazin...
- Investing in community-based adaptation is sensible but socio-economic livelihoods should be respected
- N. Nicholles; O. Vardakoulias; V. Johnson / New Economics Foundation, 2012
- Climate change impacts are expected to significantly erode part of societies’ economic, social and environmental capitals; yet is investing in community-based adaptation economically efficient and effective – holding all e...
- Institutional innovations in African smallholder carbon projects
- S. Shames / Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2012
- According to this report, climate funds for reducing greenhouse gas emissions can benefit small farmers and help achieve development objectives. In the detailed study of six African agricultural carbon projects, researchers found that...
- A toolkit to assess proposed benefit sharing and revenue distribution schemes of community REDD+ projects
- D. Mwayafu / REDD-net, 2012
- This toolkit aims to strengthen the ability of community-based institutions to address REDD+ issues, with benefit sharing being a key feature in the design of equitable REDD+ policies and projects at both national and community levels...
- Climate change, vulnerability and human mobility: perspectives of refugees from the east and Horn of Africa
- T. Afifi / United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, 2012
- This study aims to understand the extent to which refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) have perceived, experienced and responded to climatic variability and long-term negative climatic change in the east and Horn of Africa...
- Promoting gender equality in responses to climate change: the case of Kenya
- C.I. Speranza / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2011
- The recent UNFCCC Conference of Parties in Cancun, Mexico, was able to demonstrate, among other achievements, that the importance of gender in climate change responses is increasingly being acknowledged. Climate change affects women a...
- Summary of the findings of the STEPS maize project in Kenya
- S. Brooks; J. Thompson; H. Odame / STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2009
- Maize is a socially, politically and economically staple crop in Kenya. This paper summarises the findings of the STEPS Environmental Change and Maize Innovation in Kenya project, which utilised maize as a window through which to expl...
- Southern voices on climate policy choices: analysis of and lessons learned from civil society advocacy on climate change
- H. Reid / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2012
- Since the beginning of international climate change negotiations, civil society has worked alongside governments in shaping global agreements and keeping an eye on the implementation (and sometimes the lack of implementation) of these...
- Climate-proofing Energy Systems
- L. E. Williamson / HELIO International, 2009
- This document analyses energy systems in a climate change context. Many energy policies are driven by the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However current mitigation measures fail to take into account the full impact of increa...
- ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins
- The ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins is devoted entirely to research on the tropical forest margins. ASB, which was founded as Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn in 1994, is currently focussed on reducing deforestation and emissions from land use change, including forestry and agriculture, while ensuring viable livelihoods and enhancing social and environmental co-benefits.The partnersh...
- Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
- Kenya's national institute for health science research
- Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI)
- Research and dissemination institute in Kenya focussing on forrestry and sustainability
- Climate Network Africa
- African climate change network
- Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme, Kenya (ASB)
- Global collaborative programme to conserve forests and reduce poverty in the humid tropics
- African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)
- Policy research and training organisation located in Nairobi
- United Nations [UN] Environment Programme (UNEP)
- UNEP operates a number of gopher/WWW services, concentrating on different aspects of their agenda. The main services are the UNEP gopher, UNEP WWW, Geneva Secretariat WWW and the CEDAR gopher/WWW: (a) Main WWW/gopher: information on UNEP activities / programmes / personnel; International Directory Network database (see separate entry); UNEP Library catalogue; register of international environme...
