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Searching with a thematic focus on Climate change in Kenya

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    Agricultural policy-making in sub Saharan Africa: Kenya’s past policies

    Tegemeo Institute of Agriculture policy and Development, 2008
    In many countries, the evolution and the development of policy is not documented. Therefore, for one to understand policy process, interviews have to be undertaken on individuals who are knowledgeable about the process. This study uses interviews to understand policy evolution and in the undertaking of Network Analysis.
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    Protecting traditional knowledge from the grassroots up

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2009
    For indigenous peoples around the world, traditional knowledge (TK) based on natural resources forms the basis of their culture and identity, and yet it is under threat. Indigenous communities are increasingly vulnerable to eviction, environmental degradation and outside interests keen on taking over their traditional resources.
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    Review and analysis of existing drought risk reduction policies and programmes in Kenya.

    International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2008
    This study entail review and analysis of existing national level Disaster Risk Reduction policies and programmes including those of the Kenya government, bilateral and multi-lateral agencies as well as non-governmental organizations.
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    Drought in the Horn of Africa: preventing the next disaster

    International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2011
    The Horn of Africa’s most serious drought in decades has brought severe humanitarian consequences. Much of the suffering could have been avoided, and in a region plagued by recurrent drought, the greatest challenge today is preventing the next disaster.
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    Should Africa take the renewable energy path?

    Arid Lands Information Network, 2011
    Modern energy services are essential for reducing poverty. Countries need energy to increase economic production, which improves livelihood options for women and men. Energy is also needed to increase agricultural productivity, provide clean water and improve human health, and energy enables girls and boys to go to school.
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    Unjust waters: climate change, flooding and the urban poor in Africa

    Russell Sage Foundation, 2008
    Poor people living in hazardous and unhealthy environments in urban areas may find their difficulties compounded by the consequences of climate change. These include those who construct their shelters on steep, unstable hillsides, or along the foreshore on former mangrove swamps or tidal flats.
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    The future of pastoralism in a changing climate

    Arid Lands Information Network, 2011
    Pastoralism is a free-range livestock production system. It is practised in all of Africa’s dryland regions, and in some communities it is the main source of food security and income. But will pastoralism survive in the changing climate? This issue of Joto Afrika provides research findings, lessons learnt and success stories from across Africa.
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    Demand for drought tolerance in Africa: selection of drought tolerant maize seed using framed field experiments

    AgEcon Search, 2011
    Recent projections on the impact of climate change argue that eastern and southern Africa will experience dramatic reductions in maize yields by mid‐century. This research paper argues that such studies have not taken farmer adaptation of cropping practices or land reallocation into consideration.
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    Women as key players in climate adaptation

    Arid Lands Information Network, 2011
    Gender often dictates who gains and who loses in environmental disasters: where women lack basic rights, more will die from natural disasters than men; where they enjoy equal rights, the death rate is the same.
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    Scarcity and organized violence in Kenya, 1989-2004: a ‘fitting’ or a ‘mis-fitting’ case of environmental security theory?

    International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2010
    This study analyses the relationship between armed clashes  and scarce natural resources in Kenya, using disaggregated data on development, resources, population concentration, and ethnic composition. The main findings of the research are as follows: 

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