Kenya and Food security
- Capital:
Nairobi - Population:
40046566 - Size:
582650.0 Km2
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- How can institutional collaboration support individual and household food security, and, through that, improve the quality of the labor supply?
- C. Johnson-Welch; B. Alemu; Theresia Peter Msaki; M. Sengendo; H. Kigutha; A. Wolff / Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
- Food security is a multi-dimensional development issue that needs cross-sectoral integrated approaches. This case study research was designed to challenge the belief that it is too difficult to apply integrated approaches. It d...
- Food-for Work policies and income diversification: comparing Cote d'Ivoire and Kenya
- C.B. Barrett; M. Bezuneh; A. Aboud / Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
- This paper presents evidence on the effects of two different sorts of policy shocks on observed income diversification patterns in rural Côte d'Ivoire and Kenya. Research results: In Côte d'Ivoire, ma...
- FEWS NET Monthly Food Security Updates
- Famine Early Warning Systems Network, 1999
- News bulletin from FEWS/USAID focusing on food supply prospects and news for African countries Until 1999 this was known as the Fews Bulletin
- 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...
- When and where to intervene
- Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2000
- This article looks at ways of using food aid as an intervention to mitigate the impacts of HIV/AIDS. Impacts include: people infected with HIV/AIDS are frequently unable to work for increasingly long periods of time, u...
- 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...
- Systematic Client Consultation in Development: The Case of Food Policy Research in Ghana, India, Kenya, and Mali
- S.C. Babu; L.R. Brown; B. McClafferty / International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998
- Successful food policy implementation is preceded by a defined policymaking process drawing from a sound information base. Yet too often the knowledge generated through food policy research does not become part of the local body of in...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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)
