Kenya and Agriculture and food
- Capital:
Nairobi - Population:
40046566 - Size:
582650.0 Km2
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- The BLDS agriculture collection
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Search for the latest agriculture-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Destitution in pastoral areas is not an inevitable result of an overloaded pastoral system
- R. Hogg / Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1985
- The prevailing orthodoxy is that destitution in pastoral areas is the inevitable result of an overloaded pastoral system, caused by: human population increase an ecologically unwise dependence on milk in a coun...
- How should Kenyan land reform be conducted?
- Institute of Economic Affairs, Kenya, 2000
- This article discusses issues surrounding land reform in Kenya. As the nature of land reforms is as yet undecided, disparate suggestions and proposals are being considered. These include: Land Ownership Ceilings. There ...
- Soil fertility policies must be relevant to all stakeholders
- H.C.K. Kinyanjui / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2000
- This paper analyses the way in which certain soil fertility policies have evolved, and how stakeholders perceive them. It attempts to understand better the tools and processes involved in formulating and implementing policies and meth...
- How contemporary understandings and knowledge of pastoral conflict can guide practical work
- S. Krätli; J. Swift / Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2001
- This literature review explores the range of writings available concerning pastoral conflict in northern Kenya. It argues that that conflict has grown rapidly in Africa in the least three decades, and pastoral areas are among the most...
- Was OXFAM (Kenya)'s relief work in Wajir successful?
- M. Buchanan-Smith; D. Barton / Oxfam, 1999
- OXFAM (UK & I) Kenya was engaged in relief work in Wajir District from September 1996 until October 1998. These interventions were undertaken in response to a series of natural disasters including both the drought of 1996/97 and t...
- Effects of market reform on access to food by low-income households : evidence from four countries in Eastern and Southern Africa
- Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996
- This report highlights conclusions from the study which have broader implications for targeting vulnerable groups. There appear to be major opportunities to promote household food security through the use of self-targeting. By further...
- Comparative cost of production analysis in East Africa : implications for competitiveness and comparative advantage
- M. Odhiambo; P. Kristanson / Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996
- Report is an analytical attempt to highlight areas of comparative advantage and disadvantage in various East African countries and suggest ways in which these countries could improve regional and individual competitiveness in producti...
- Trends in real food prices in six sub-Saharan African countries
- Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996
- The objectives of this research were to assess the direction and magnitude of food prices since the implementation of food sector policy reforms, to identify the major factors affecting such changes, and to assess the resulting effect...
- Maize research impact in Africa : the obscured revolution : complete report Elon Gilbert ... [et al.]
- Elon Gilbert / Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1994
- This report will be especially useful to those policymakers and groups that have made significant investments in maize research and development in Africa over the past 20 years. The study chronicles investment trends in maize in Afric...
- Urban maize meal consumption patterns: strategies for improving food access for vulnerable urban households in Kenya
- Mulinge Mukumbu; T.S. Jayne / Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1995
- This report examines maize consumption patterns in response to policy changes in Kenya and the implications for urban food security. It is based on empirical evidence from a household survey. The researchers’ five conclusions cha...
- Tegemeo Institute of Agriculture policy and Development
- Tegemeo Institute conducts Research and Analysis on policy in the domain of agriculture, rural development, natural resources and environment. The Institute aims at addressing micro and macroeconomic policy issues bearing on farming, transportation, processing, marketing, and trade of agricultural products and inputs; sustainability of agricultural systems and natural resources as well as the envi...
- African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE)
- The African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE) was initiated in Durban, South Africa, during the 25th International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) conference, and was officially launched during in 2004. AAAE publishes the African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AfJARE). The journal aims to publish original research about how African agricul...
- Africancrops.net
- Information on use of GM crops and seed systems in Africa
- Land Use Change, Impacts and Dynamics (LUCID)
- LUCID network, stimulating research on land use and global change in east Africa
- Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development, Kenya (Tegemeo)
- Agricultural research and policy institute
- Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN)
- Aims to improve the development practices of community development workers in the East African drylands by facilitating the exchange of experience among them, and disseminating appropriate information in a usable form
- Community Animal Health Network (CAHNET)
- A community animal health network for the dissemination and sharing of experiences and information
- Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Kenya (KARI)
- National institute researching food security in Kenya
- Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU (IPST)
- A participatory approach to improving veterinary services in Africa
- Kenya Pastoralist Forum, Nairobi (KPF)
- Highlights the political oppression of Kenyan pastoralists within a Human Rights perspective
