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  Maize farming in Kenya: where did it go wrong?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Maize is an important food crop for almost everyone in Kenya. The development of new technologies and farming methods during the 1960s and 1970s saw large improvements in crop production, but this growth has not been sustained. What caused this decline in maize production and what can be learnt for the global fight against poverty and hunger?
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  Connecting poverty and ecosystem services: focus on Kenya

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005

  How are Africa’s ecosystems faring? This report provides a preliminary overview of ecosystem services in Kenya and the corresponding constituents and determinants of well-being related to the availability of these services.
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  Final appraisal of the Mt. Elgon Regional Ecosystem Conservation Programme (MERECP)

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2005

  This report is an appraisal of the programme document brief "Mt. Elgon Regional Ecosystem Conservation Programme" (MERECP) in Kenya, prepared by International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Eastern Africa Regional Office (IUCN-EARO).
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  The status and distribution of freshwater biodiversity in Eastern Africa

  World Conservation Union, 2005

  Biodiversity within inland water ecosystems in Eastern Africa is both highly diverse and of great regional importance to livelihoods and economies. However, development activities are not always compatible with the conservation of this diversity and it is poorly represented in the development planning process.
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  Shared aquatic ecosystems of East Africa: status and trends

  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.
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  Malaria and agriculture in Kenya: a new perspective on the links between health and ecosystems

  International Development Research Centre, 2003

  This article, produced by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, highlights research on the link between irrigated tropical agriculture and malaria, in particular findings which have shown that certain species of malaria-bearing mosquitoes prefer the blood of cattle to that of humans.
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  Valuing alternative land-use options in the Kitengela wildlife dispersal area of Kenya

  International Livestock Research Institute, 2002

  This study aims to provide information to help inform the search for landuse activities that will lead to protection of wildlife corridors and dispersal areas in the Kitengela wildlife dispersal area, whilst at the same time, maximising returns from the land. A formal household survey was carried out on a relatively small sample of 35.
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  Parks beyond Parks: Genuine community-based wildlife eco-tourism or just another loss of land for Maasai pastoralists in Kenya?

  Drylands Programme, IIED, 2002

  This paper provides an analysis of the Kenyan ‘Parks beyond parks’ programme which attempts to introduce a community based social component to their parks management policies by allowing locals to establish eco-tourism projects adjacent to parks.
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  Mt. Elgon regional ecosystem conservation programme (MERECP) appraisal report

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2002

  This paper reports on an external appraisal by NORAD of the draft programme proposal ”Mt. Elgon Regional Ecosystem Conservation Programme (MERECP)”.The paper finds that the major challenge is to effectively harmonise the programme into a truly regional effort. The implementation phase will therefore be split into a small regional component and two national components.
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  Legislative complementarity and harmonisation of biodiversity-related multilateral environmental agreements

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2001

  This report is one of eight thematic reviews prepared for the Biodiversity Planning Support Programme (BPSP), a programme created to help countries strengthen national capacity to prepare and implement National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans in compliance with Article 6 of the Convention on Biological Diversity.The study consists of the following sections:A synthesis report on

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