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
- Policies to address pastoralists impacted by climate change
- Oxfam, 2008
- This paper analyses the policies required to enable pastoralist communities to cope with the impact of climate change. Although pastoralism makes a significant contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP) in many...
- Carbon financing and carbon market processes: a guide for Indigenous communities
- I. Barnsley / Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University,, 2008
- Greenhouse gas abatement activities can have both beneficial and detrimental impacts on the communities in which they operate. For this reason, it is vital that Indigenous communities have accurate information about carbon financing a...
- Does policy pay enough attention to the interaction between water and forests?
- A. Perlis (ed) / Unasylva, FAO, 2008
- Water-related problems are an increasingly important challenge to sustainable development, and the availability and quality of water are strongly influenced by forests. In this issue of FAO's Unasylva, a collection of articl...
- Poor left to fend for themselves in the new climate change reality
- ActionAid International, 2006
- The UN Millenium summit committed to achieving ‘a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers’ by 2020. However, in Africa – the world’s fastest urbanising region – climate ...
- Adapting to climate change – how do poor people cope?
- D. M. Smith / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- Climate change will increase the gaps between developed and developing countries, in terms of wealth, health and food security. This will make achieving goals to reduce poverty more difficult. Poor people with few assets ca...
- Empirical forcasting could help improve our response to humanitarian catastrophes
- A. Mude; C. Barrett; J. McPeak / Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Cornell University, 2006
- This paper sets out to develop an empirical forecasting model that can predict, with reasonable accuracy, the expected welfare impact of impending drought. This work is based on a set of regularly measured variables from communities i...
- Africa's urban poor are struggling to cope with climate-induced flooding
- ActionAid International, 2007
- Six years ago, at the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders set a specific target for realising the right to adequate housing and ‘continuous improvement of living conditions’. However, in Africa climate change is already th...
- Impacts of climate change in East Africa
- M. Case / WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006
- This report highlights some of the major impacts of climate change on conservation for East African countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. It also illustrates that climate change in Africa is not only a conservation i...
- Building climate adaptation into development policy in the Kenyan drylands
- S. Eriksen; K. Ulsrud; J. Lind; B. Muok / African Centre for Technology Studies, 2006
- This policy brief focuses on the development implications of findings from a three year research project to understand how conflict affects different people’s ability to adapt to climate constraints. Fieldwork for the study was c...
- How does conflict shape adaptation and contribute to vulnerability in the face of climate stress?
- S. Eriksen; B. Owuor; E. Nyukuri; V. Orindi / Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2005
- This report discusses the proceedings of two related workshops, which presented the findings of the project “Adaptation as a livelihood struggle: conflict and vulnerability among dryland populations in Kenya”. This research ...
- 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...
