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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food in Kenya

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  Land tenure and land management in the districts around Mount Elgon: an assessment presented to Mount Elgon Regional Ecosystem Conservation Programme (MERECP)

  World Agroforestry Centre, 2007

  This working paper reviews historical and current factors and patterns affecting land use, land tenure, resource access, human settlement, and conflicts over resource access and tenure in the districts around Mt. Elgon in Kenya and Uganda.
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  Agriculture in urban planning: generating livelihoods and food security

  International Development Research Centre, 2009

  This report, by researchers working in urban agriculture (UA), examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanising global South, the book examines the contribution of UA and city farming to livelihoods and food security.
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  The impact of rising food prices on disparate livelihoods groups in Kenya

  United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2008

  The dramatic increase in food prices globally has created challenges for achieving the Millennium Development Goals of reducing poverty and hunger especially in the Kenyan context given a number of factors aggravating the food crisis. This study provides a situation analysis and prognosis of markets and prices in Kenya and the wider region.
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  Survival of the fittest. Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa

  Oxfam, 2008

  This paper analyses the policies required to enable pastoralist communities to cope with the impact of climate change. 
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  Exploring strategic priorities for regional agricultural R&D investments in East and Central Africa

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008

  This paper explains that given that many countries in the East and Central Africa region are small and face similar agro-ecological, climatic, and development challenges, relying on expensive national research and development (R&D) programs is bound to prove inefficient and costly. Instead, potential economies of scale can be derived through the regionalisation of R&D.
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  Promoting value chains of neglected and underutilized species for pro-poor growth and biodiversity conservation: guidelines and good practices

  Bioversity International, 2008

  Use of neglected and underutilised species (NUS) can play an important role in improving food security, conserving biodiversity and generating income and employment. Value chain development (VCD) can be a useful tool for realising these prospects, by linking supply capacities to market opportunities.
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  Focus on... A green revolution for Africa

  New Agriculturalist, 2008

  Forty years after the Asian Green Revolution , the spotlight has now turned on African agriculture. Increasing attention is being paid to the need for greater investment in African agriculture and key organisations are pushing for a New Green Revolution in Africa.
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  Fertiliser subsidies and sustainable agricultural growth in Africa: current issues and empirical evidence from Malawi, Zambia, and Kenya

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2008

  The role of input subsidies in stimulating growth and addressing food security and poverty alleviation objectives has re-emerged as an important  debate in agricultural policy.
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  Crisis in Kenya: land, displacement and the search for 'durable solutions'

  Overseas Development Institute, 2008

  This policy brief explores the importance of land issues in forced displacement in Kenya, drawing out their implications for current humanitarian and early recovery interventions in the wake of the violence and displacement that followed the 2007 elections. Key messages nclude:
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  Focus on... Neglected species

  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 the neglected or underutilised crops that can provide food security and income generation, particularly for the poor.

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