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  The limits of success: the case of the dairy sector in Kenya

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2007

  This case study briefly explores the politics of the policy process behind the dairy sector in Kenya by examining the underlying policy narratives and the changing actors and networks associated with different interests.
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  The negative impact that agriculture rules on trade and finance have on women, families and communities

  International Gender and Trade Network, 2006

  This article examines the impact of the Agreement on Agriculture on the ability of developing countries to achieve food security and sustainable livelihoods for their farmers, using the dairy industry in Kenya as a case study.The author concludes that Kenya’s dairy industry faces a gloomy future, a situation that threatens the livelihood of 600,000 or more small holders and their families.
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  The urgent need to increase adaptative capacities: evidence from Kenyan drylands

  African Centre for Technology Studies, 2006

  This policy brief focuses on the development implications of findings from a three year research project to understand how conflict affects different people’s ability to adapt to climate constraints. Fieldwork for the study was carried out in two dryland areas of Kenya, Kitui and Turkana.The research found that people’s adaptive capacity to climate stress in the region is deteriorating.
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  Improved access to information on livestock early warning

  Arid Lands Information Network, 2006

  Particularly in vulnerable pastoral regions, early warning systems can empower individuals and communities to act to prevent loss of life and reduce the economic and material impact of disasters. In this two-page article from Baobab, the essential aims, products and approaches of people-centred early warning systems are summarised, drawing on examples from the Horn of Africa.
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  The Eastern African ecoregion: towards sustainable and equitable fisheries access agreement in the western Indian Ocean region

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2005

  The document reports on a fisheries access agreements workshop that was conducted in June 2005 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This workshop was the fourth in a series designed to promote sustainable access agreements and regional collaboration.
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  Towards effective and sustainable seed relief activities

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004

  This report is the outcome of a FAO workshop on "Effective and Sustainable Seed Relief Activities", convened 26–28 May 2003. The aim of the workshop was to improve the effectiveness of seed relief interventions and the contribution they can make to sustainable improvements in seed, food and livelihood security.
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  Policies and strategies to address the vulnerability of pastoralists in Sub-Saharan Africa

  2006

  This paper makes a case for increased policy attention to pastoralists in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
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  Learning to improve policy for pastoralists in Kenya

  Oxfam, 2005

  Expansion of primary education provision in Kenya from the 1960s dramatically increased participation overall. However, the policies that underpinned this expansion proved to be inappropriate to the circumstances in Kenya’s pastoral districts, and failed to realise the right to education of children, especially girls, who lived there.
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  Saving lives through livelihoods: critical gaps in the response to the drought in the Greater Horn of Africa

  Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2006

  This Briefing Note reviews the extent of emergency livelihoods responses during the most recent drought and resulting food crisis in the Horn of Africa.
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  Linking farmers to markets

  Agricultural Support Systems Division, FAO, 2006

  This website/page presents a selection of brief case studies of ways in which small-scale farmers in developing countries have linked with markets, through their own efforts and with assistance from others.

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