Kenya and Food security
- Capital:
Nairobi - Population:
40046566 - Size:
582650.0 Km2
Check the most recent online additions, updated daily.
Content from selected partners can be found by following the relevant links in the central panel below - or check out our editor's selection of the best sector specific information from other websites.
- Previously neglected and undervalued crops could hold the key to food security for the poor
- New Agriculturalist, 2008
- Increasingly, global food security has become dependent on a shrinking basket of a select number of crops. With prices for staple crops such as rice, wheat and maize having recently doubled or even tripled, it is timely to re-focus on...
- How can women be more actively engaged in solving food crises?
- K. Hansen-Kuhn / Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007
- Over the last few decades, food crises have become a distressingly common phenomena. Women are often at the centre of these emergencies, though the disproportionate impact of hunger on women is too often hidden within statistics, simi...
- Manual to run programmes that empower orphans and vulnerable children living in a world with HIV and AIDS
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
- This training manual from the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) details how to set up and run a Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS) programme. The programmes are designed to empower o...
- Surviving the drought: the need for a livelihoods-based response in pastoralist areas
- Feinstein International Center, USA, 2007
- This Pastoralist Livelihoods Initiative policy brief argues that a livelihoods-based drought response in pastoralist areas could aim to protect key livestock assets and support rapid rebuilding of herds after drought. The b...
- Overcoming barriers in developing agricultural biotechnology in Africa
- N. Clark; J. Mugabe; J. Smith / African Centre for Technology Studies, 2008
- This book provides an overview of the potential benefits of agricultural biotechnology in Africa in the context of continuous poor agricultural production and rising food insecurity. The authors draw on research on biotechnology and b...
- Using biotechnology to effectively manage weed problems in African agriculture
- F. Kanampiu; J. Ransom; J. Gressel / Africancrops.net, 2002
- Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, this paper presents both challenges and possible solutions over the weeds Striga hermonthica and S. Asiatic, which destroy maize, millet, sorghum, and upland rice. Although organic and inorg...
- Food assistance and HIV: a step-by-step guide to integrated programming
- Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2007
- This guide from the FANTA project outlines key steps for integrating food assistance and nutrition into HIV programmes. It identifies key challenges to integrated HIV programming: inadequate understanding of how to address the overlap...
- Assessing household food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa
- Lisa C. Smith; Harold Alderman; Dede Aduayom / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- Reducing hunger in developing countries depends on reliable estimates of food insecurity. Using data about how much food individual households acquire may be a more accurate way to measure dietary quantity and quality than national le...
- Innovative practices for connecting small-scale producers with local and regional markets
- International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007
- Rapid changes are taking place in agri-food markets in middle and low-income countries and small-scale agriculture, which supports the livelihoods of the majority of rural poor, is poorly prepared for these changes. These 8 case studi...
- Education for food security: getting the basics right
- Tutui Nanok; Peter Taylor; Eric Tollens / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- Many development agencies recognise the connections between poor education, poverty and food insecurity. They now try to tackle these issues together. To do this, it is essential to understand the relationships between these factors, ...
- 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)
