Kenya and Food security
- Capital:
Nairobi - Population:
40046566 - Size:
582650.0 Km2
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- Translating famine early warning into early action: an east Africa case study
- J. Mosley / Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2012
- This paper considers the political contexts in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, how these affected the response to the 2011 Horn of Africa emergency, and the implications for future response. Although the Horn of Africa is often seen as a...
- Gender: A key dimension linking agricultural programs to improved nutrition and health
- R Meinzen-Dick / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012
- Empirical evidence shows that increasing women’s control over land, physical assets, and financial assets serves to raise agricultural productivity, improve child health and nutrition, and increase expenditures on education, as ...
- Alternative investment strategies for increasing resilience in the Horn of Africa
- D. Headey; A. S. Taffesse; L. You / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012
- This discussion paper seeks to explore alternative investment options with the aim of enhancing resilience in the Horn of Africa. Climate change, conflict, drought and increasing populations are leading many to pessimistic conclusions...
- Social protection for food security: A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition
- 2012
- Social protection has risen rapidly up the development policy agenda in the last decade. There is also a clear trend to making social protection, as well as food security, ‘rights-based’ rather than ‘discretionary’...
- Are food insecure smallholder households making changes in their farming practices? Evidence from east Africa
- P. Kristjanson / Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
- Smallholder farmers across east Africa have started to embrace climate-resilient farming approaches and technologies, according to this study by the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) research programme. At the same...
- Achieving trade developmental goals in Africa’s agriculture requires comprehensive policies and private involvement
- Consumer Unity and Trust Society, India, 2011
- Agriculture and trade can be engines for inclusive growth and development in African countries. This monograph presents the main findings of country research studies on trade and agriculture issues in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda a...
- Living on a Spike
- N Hossain / Oxfam, 2011
- The human face of global food price rises is often missing amongst the abstract discussions of macro-economic trends and global food price indices. In order to understand the impact of the rise in global food prices through much of 20...
- Practical and evidence-based policy actions to achieve food security in the context of climate change
- J. Beddington (ed); M. Asaduzzaman (ed); M. Clark (ed) / Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
- This report, released by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, identifies a set of clear actions to be undertaken by key stakeholders to achieve food security in the context of climate change. It reasons that w...
- Drought and famine in the Horn of Africa
- S. Loewenberg / The Lancet, 2011
- This report describes the crisis from Kenya’s refugee camps and Wajir in the north, as millions of people in the Horn of Africa are affected by the devastating drought and famine. The famine in Somalia that has sent a tide of re...
- The growing debate around GM Crops and the future of food and farming
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- The debate over genetically-modified (GM) crops is one of the most controversial and fiercely contested of recent times. While media coverage often focuses on disagreements between the United States and Europe, perhaps the main battle...
- Kenyatta University, Kenya
- Teaching and research university with a wide range of subjects
- Reseau International d'ONG sur la Desertification / International NGO Network on Desertification and Drought (RIOD)
- NGO network facilitating exchange of information on desertification and sustainable livelihoods in dryland areas. WWW site has full text of their Circular on Desertification and the Eco newsletter (joint publication with the International Negotiating Committee for the Elaboration of a Convention to Combat Desertification (INCD)
