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  Addressing seed security in disaster response: linking relief with development

  Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia, 2004

  This volume contains eight case studies on seed aid in Africa. The case studies were undertaken to evaluate various forms of emergency seed aid in the field and to couple these with analyses of the broader seed and crop systems.
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  Between codes and practices: are African women getting a fair deal?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Tens of thousands of African women are employed in the export horticulture sector where fresh fruit, vegetables and cut flowers are grown for foreign, mainly European, markets. Many of these jobs are labour intensive and insecure, and characterised by long hours, hazardous working conditions and low pay.
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  Population pressure, migration and urbanisation: impacts on crop–livestock systems development in West Africa

  International Livestock Research Institute, 2001

  Population growth and urbanisation are driving a livestock revolution. Mixed farming systems are the present and the foreseeable future of West African livestock systems, with concurrent changes in livestock feeding systems and the role of grazing, fodder and penning. The livestock economy has to be seen as part of a national economy in which urban and rural facets interact.
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  Impact of agricultural trade and related policy reforms on food security in Kenya

  Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2004

  During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Kenya reformed its monetary, fiscal and trade policy and liberalised its agricultural sector.
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  Assessing the value of climate forecast information for pastoralists: evidence from southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya

  Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2003

  This paper explores the value of external climate forecast information to pastoralists in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya.
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  Pastoralism on the margin

  Minority Rights Group International, 2004

  This report focuses on the sustainability of pastoralism in the lowlands of the Great Rift of East Africa and the Horn, arguing that pastoralism as a mode of production and a way of life has entered a phase of decline, often accompanied by conflict, drought, famine and flooding.The report details the historic evolution and chief characteristics of pastoralism, discussing the eras of colonialism
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  Pathways out of poverty in western Kenya and the role of livestock

  Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative, 2004

  This paper is based on a study exploring households' pathways into, and out of, poverty, with poverty defined from the communities' own perspective.
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  The impact of HIV AIDS on land rights: case studies from Kenya

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2004

  This study explores the relationship between HIV/AIDS and land rights in Kenya, with a particular focus on women as a socially vulnerable group.
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  Pastoralists’ perception of livestock production systems and opportunities for improvement in south-western Marsabit, Kenya

  Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 2003

  This paper reports on the results of Rapid Rural Appraisals (RRA) conducted among the Rendille and Samburu pastoralists of south-west Marsabit, Kenya. The RRAs were conducted to assess the pastoralists perceptions on the roles of livestock, prevailing constraints, health status of the young stock and opportunities for improvement.
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  Gender and the social and economic impact of drought on the residents of Turkana district in Kenya

  Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, Ethiopia, 2003

  This study seeks to assess the adaptive strategies used by men and women from different social and economic backgrounds to cope with drought in the Turkana district of Kenya.Economic activity in this district is mainly characterised by pastoralist livestock production with a gendered division of activities.

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