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    Climate-smart agriculture for food security in Africa

    Arid Lands Information Network, 2011
    Agriculture in developing countries must change significantly to meet the related challenges of food security and climate change. This edition of Joto Afrika shows that in Africa, there are numerous proven, low-cost, climate-smart agricultural innovations that smallholders can adopt.
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    Climate change adaptation and mitigation: what organisations in Kenya are doing

    Institute for Law and Environmental Governance, 2012
    The effects of Climate Change are complex requiring global, regional and national interventions and cannot be handled by a single ministry or government. This book has been compiled by the Institute of Law and Environmental Governance (ILEG) to detail all institutions that are in one way or another handling the effects of Climate Change.
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    Scalling - uprenewable energy program - Investment plan for Kenya

    Ministry of Energy, Kenya, 2011
    This is Kenya’s Investment Plan (IP) for the Scaling-Up Renewable Energy (SREP) Program funding. The IP is in line with national renewable energy development strategy as set in the Least Cost Power Development Plan (LCPDP), Rural Electrification Master Plan, Sessional No.
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    Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Preparedness in Kenya

    Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2010
    Africa has contributed very little to global warming, but it will be affected severely by climate change. While the continent has a role to play in the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, Africa’s major focus is on issues of adaptation. In order to address the challenges of adaptation to climate change, African countries need substantial financial resources.
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    Community based adaptation to climate change in Africa

    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 as the spread of vector-borne diseases like malaria to places where the disease is not known to be endemic.
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    Energy Systems: Vulnerability – Adaptation – Resilience (VAR)

    HELIO International, 2009
    Assessing the vulnerability, adaptation and resilience (VAR) of energy systems is of paramount importance in coping with the impacts of climate change, particularly in developing countries. HELIO International has initiated a series of country assessments aimed at identifying vulnerabilities of energy systems, with a view to improving their resilience to withstand climate shocks.
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    National climate change response strategy - Kenya

    2010
    The integration of climate informationinto government policies is important because climate is a major factor for most of the economicactivities in Kenya.
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    Draft national policy for disaster management in Kenya

    Kenya Community Support Center, 2009
    In the pursuit of reducing vulnerabilities to risks, the Kenyan Government has formulated this National Policy on Disaster Management to institutionalise mechanisms for addressing disasters. The policy emphasizes preparedness on the part of the Government, communities and other stakeholders in Disaster Risk Reduction activities.
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    Strategies for adapting to climate change in rural sub-Saharan Africa

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2010
    Adaptation strategies must target those populations most vulnerable to global change and equip those unable to adapt—generally the poorest—with the tools and incentives that will enable them to do so.
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    Climate change financing and aid effectiveness Kenya case study

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2011
    This report is one of a series of brief country studies that have been commissioned by the OECD/DAC and the African Development bank (AfDB) as part of a regional study on climate change finance. The work seeks to strengthen the management of funding for climate change using the framework of the internationally agreed Aid Effectiveness principles.

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