Background and policy
- Environmental Suitability and Agro-Environmental Zoning of Kenya for Biofuel Production
- B. Muok / African Centre for Technology Studies , 2010
- When produced in a sustainable and equitable manner, biofuels can increase Kenya’s energy self sufficiency, support rural development as well as reduce deforestation and GHG emissions compared to foss...
- Community based adaptation to climate change in Africa
- J Wakhungu / African Centre for Technology Studies , 2010
- In Kenya, droughts and floods have becomemore frequent and intense. The country has also seen increased average temperatures, more extreme hot days, and colder nights, successive crop failures, as well...
- Adaptation in Goromonzi district, Munyawiri ward Zimbabwe
- Z Sherpard / African Centre for Technology Studies , 2010
- Whether people can adapt, and for how long, depends on the resources available. Africa is the region most vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change and atthe same time has low adaptive capa...
- Lived experiences: Adaptation to climate change in Gogonyo sub country, Palisa District, Uganda
- N. Susan / African Centre for Technology Studies , 2010
- Communities which are remotely located in countries such as Uganda, have limited access to social services, dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods and may have limited opportunity to inf...
- Governing agricultural biotechnology in Africa: building public confidence and capacity for policy-making
- 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 ...
- Biotechnology, trade and commercial export risks in the COMESA/ ASARECA Region
- D. Wafula;R. Paarlberg;I Minde;J. Wakhungu / African Centre for Technology Studies , 2008
- The rapid development and diffusion of biotechnology and in particular genetic engineering is happening at a time when the African continent is faced with a number of daunting challenges including ...
- The urgent need to increase adaptative capacities: evidence from 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. ...
- Mainstreaming adaptation to climate change in the development process in Uganda
- V.A. Orindi; S. Eriksen / African Centre for Technology Studies , 2005
- Uganda is highly vulnerable to climate change due to limited financial resources, low levels of income per capita, limited disaster management skills and weak institutional capacity. A large proporti...
- Oil and water in Sudan
- P. Goldsmith; L.A. Abura; J. Switzer / African Centre for Technology Studies , 2004
- Sudan, a nation of 36 million people wracked by conflict for 34 of the last 45 years, has generated some four million displaced people during the course of its war. It is estimated that over two milli...
- Shared terrestrial ecosystems of East Africa: towards conviviality
- J. K. Kairu; G. M. Sikoyo / African Centre for Technology Studies , 2002
- The East African Community (EAC) initiated a process to prepare common guidelines for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of shared aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems of East Africa. The shared ...
