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Searching with a thematic focus on Environment, Environment and water in Kenya

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  Forests and water

  Unasylva, FAO, 2008

  Water-related problems are an increasingly important challenge to sustainable development, and the availability and quality of water are strongly influenced by forests.
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  Gender and agricultural mechanisation in Kenya

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Despite considerable investment, agriculture in Kenya is characterised by declining food production per capita and worsening environmental degradation. Why have technologies which have worked elsewhere failed? How can female cultivators be encouraged to consider new methods?
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  Climate change impacts on East Africa: a review of scientific literature

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006

  This report highlights some of the major impacts of climate change on conservation for East African countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. It also illustrates that climate change in Africa is not only a conservation issue but also a socio-economic one that must be dealt with on a global scale.
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  The reality of water provision in urban Africa

  International Policy Network, 2006

  This paper examines water and sanitation delivery in urban settings in sub-Saharan Africa. The paper draws on examples from several African countries including Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Ivory Coast, and Tanzania.
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  Higher prices are not enough to improve Kenyan water services

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Neither public utilities nor small-scale private service providers are serving urban Kenyans well. Water use levels are low, prices are high and service is dismal for both poor and non-poor households. The findings challenge current prescriptions, especially the belief that ‘correct’ (i.e. high) prices and competition can automatically and dramatically improve service delivery.
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  Increasing women’s role in food security in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Women play a key role in securing food throughout Africa, yet local customs and legal institutions often discriminate against women, denying them access to land, resources, education and public services. Healthcare is also an issue, particularly HIV/AIDS. Women have to care for themselves and for sick relatives, leaving less time to find or produce food.
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  Drawers of water II: 30 years of change in domestic water use and environmental health in east Africa: Kenya country study

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004

  This paper discusses changes in domestic water use over three decades in twelve rural and urban sites in Kenya. The rural and urban sites reflect the diversity of environments, living conditions and water service levels found throughout Kenya.The paper findings reveal both positive and negative changes in water use, in terms of levels and types of use, reliability, access and cost.
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  Rural water tenure in East Africa: a comparative study of legal regimes and community responses to changing tenure patterns in Tanzania and Kenya

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000

  This paper looks at the water policy of Tanzania, and makes comparisons with the situation in Kenya. It focuses especially on recent attempts to move towards a participatory, demand-management approach to rural water supply.

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