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  From grassroots to government: FARM-Africa’s experiences influencing policy in sub-Saharan Africa

  Farm Africa, 2007

  Increasingly, NGOs are becoming active in policy debates, yet a key question emerging from this new focus is whether NGOs can effectively influence the policy agenda. This publication presents four FARM-Africa projects from Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa, describing how they approached influencing national policy in the context of the natural resources sector.
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  Getting started! running a junior farmer field and life school: empowering orphans and vulnerable children living in a world with HIV and AIDS

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007

  This training manual from the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) details how to set up and run a Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS) programme. The programmes are designed to empower orphans and other vulnerable children aged 12 to 18 years who live in communities where HIV/AIDS has had a strong impact on food security.
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  Plant genetic resources for agriculture, plant breeding, and biotechnology: experiences from Cameroon, Kenya, the Philippines, and Venezuela

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008

  This report discusses the plant breeding and biotechnology innovative capacity of four countries: Cameroon, Kenya, the Philippines and Venezuela, which were included in a survey conducted by the FAO.
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  Food for thought: livestock feeding support during drought

  Feinstein International Center, USA, 2007

  This Pastoralist Livelihoods Initiative policy brief argues that a livelihoods-based drought response in pastoralist areas could aim to protect key livestock assets and support rapid rebuilding of herds after drought.
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  Appropriateness of biotechnology to African agriculture: Striga and maize as paradigms

  Africancrops.net, 2002

  Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, this paper presents both challenges and possible solutions over the weeds Striga hermonthica and S. Asiatic, which destroy maize, millet, sorghum, and upland rice.
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  Governing agricultural biotechnology in Africa: building public confidence and capacity for policy-making

  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 on research on biotechnology and biosafety policy in three African countries: Kenya, South Africa and Uganda.
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  Keeping up with technology: the use of mobile telephony in delivering community-based decentralised animal health services in Mwingi and Kitui Districts, Kenya

  Farm Africa, 2007

  This paper explores the introduction of mobile phones and community pay phones within FARM-Africa's Kenya Dairy Goat and Capacity Building Project (KDGCBP), implimented in the districts of Mwingi and Kitui. 
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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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  By extensionists for farmers: 16 fact sheets, Uganda and Kenya

  Department for International Development, UK, 2006

  This paper presents a series of fact sheets written by extension workers, farmers and researchers who attended training courses run by the Global Plant Clinic in July 2006. Using cases from Uganda and Kenya, each fact sheet offers advice to farmers to solve a specific problem, based on the author’s personal experiences of working with farmers and local agriculture. 
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  Responses to pastoral wars

  Small Arms Survey, 2007

  This Issue Brief reviews the causes and consequences of, as well as the responses to, conflicts in pastoralist areas in the Sudan–Uganda–Kenya region. Pastoral violence has been transformed in recent years by a number of factors including:

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