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Rural poverty, property rights and environmental resource management in Kenya
International Centre for Theoretical Physics - Ecological and Environmental Economics Programme, 2004This study investigates the relationship between rural poverty, property rights, and environmental resource management in a semi-arid region of Kenya using analysis of survey data. It argues that reduced environmental degradation will increase agricultural productivity, and which will then translate into lower levels of poverty as incomes and consumption expenditures rise.DocumentAgricultural Biotechnology Research Partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa (Technology Policy Brief)
United Nations University Institute for New technologies, 2004A widely accepted mechanism for providing developing countries with access to proprietary biotechnology products and tools is the formation of partnerships between Southern and Northern research institutions and multinational private companies.DocumentRural-urban linkages in sub-Saharan Africa: contemporary debates and implications for Kenyan urban workers in the 21st century
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004This CMI working paper provides an overview of rural-urban linkages in sub-Saharan Africa outlining the major strands of contemporary academic debates on this issue. There author identifies two interrelated debates for discussion.DocumentSharing experiences on reform of agricultural research and technology and extension in Eastern Africa
Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa, 2004This paper describes the findings of a meeting convened to allow the directors of agricultural research in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to share their experiences of the reform of their research and technology dissemination systems.DocumentBuilding on success in African agriculture: are Kenya's horticultural exports a replicable success story?
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004Summarising a background paper presented at the 'Successes in African Agriculture: Building for the Future' conference, this brief examines some of the factors that have contributed to the over six percent growth in Kenyan horticulture exports over the last 30 years.DocumentMalaria and agriculture in Kenya: a new perspective on the links between health and ecosystems
International Development Research Centre, 2003This article, produced by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, highlights research on the link between irrigated tropical agriculture and malaria, in particular findings which have shown that certain species of malaria-bearing mosquitoes prefer the blood of cattle to that of humans.DocumentReport of the FAO/OXFAM GB workshop on women's land rights in Southern and Eastern Africa
Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003This document reports on a workshop held in South Africa in June 2003 to address continuing insecurity of women's land rights. It brought together a broad group of participants covering NGO, grassroots, government, UN agency staff, researchers, activists, lawyers, and women living with HIV/AIDS.DocumentInnovation and policy process: case of transgenic sweet potato in Kenya
Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002Biotechnology is being integrated into the existing science and technology policy process in Kenya. This process is embedded in the country's history of agricultural development, characterised by conventional technology, public goods research and centralised and hierarchical organisation.DocumentSmallholder access to biotechnology: case of Rhizobium inocula in Kenya
Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002This paper explores the knowledge gap between science and production that the advent of biotechnology has made apparent in the smallholder agriculture.