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  Tackling gender issues in sustainable land management

  Centre for Development and Environment, Berne, 2002

  This toolkit provides a framework for main-streaming gender in rural development activities.It addresses the lack of conceptual and practical tools in the area of sustainable land management.
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  Globalisation and the international governance of modern biotechnology: the implications for food security in Kenya

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2003

  This paper argues that for modern biotechnology research to have long term and wider positive social impact in Kenya, changes in policies and institutions must be implemented to ensure that it benefits the smallholder farmers who make up the majority of Kenya’s population.Critical issues examined include:biosafety food safetyloss of biodiversity IPRsThe report makes
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  Mt. Elgon regional ecosystem conservation programme (MERECP) appraisal report

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2002

  This paper reports on an external appraisal by NORAD of the draft programme proposal ”Mt. Elgon Regional Ecosystem Conservation Programme (MERECP)”.The paper finds that the major challenge is to effectively harmonise the programme into a truly regional effort. The implementation phase will therefore be split into a small regional component and two national components.
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  Double standards: women's property rights violations in Kenya

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report recounts the experiences of 130 women from various regions, ethnic groups, religions, and social classes in Kenya who have had their property rights flouted because they are women.The report presents evidence that women are excluded from inheriting, evicted from their lands and homes by in-laws, stripped of their possessions, and forced to engage in risky sexual practices in order t
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  Animal health service delivery systems in Kenya's marginal areas under market liberalization: a case for community-based animal health workers

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper reports on the success of a project designed to introduce community-based animal health workers (CBAHWs) to deliver livestock health services in marginal areas.
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  Agriculture, economic growth and poverty reduction

  Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2002

  Does agriculture have a role to play in economic growth and poverty reduction? This paper considers the role of agriculture in Kenya.
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  Assessing the impact of using participatory research and gender/stakeholder analysis

  Participatory Research and Gender Analysis Program, CGIAR, 2000

  Collection of papers from a conference held in 1998 in Quito, Ecuador looking at methods for assessing the impact of using participatory research and gender/stakeholder analysis.Papers are introduced by a conceptual overview, and include:Farmer Participation and Formal-Led Participatory Plant Breeding Programs: Types of Impact to Date by Eva Weltzien R, Louise Sperling, Margaret E Smith
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  Veterinary services in the Horn of Africa: where are we now?: a review of animal health policies and institutions focussing in pastoral areas

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2002

  This report is based on a study of public and private sector veterinary provision, including Community-based Animal Health (CAH), in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA).
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  Livestock marketing in Southern Sudan, with particular reference to the cattle trade between southern Sudan and Uganda

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2002

  This paper looks at the trade in cattle between Southern Sudan and Northern Uganda. Currently, numbers of cattle crossing the border are controlled by Sudanese traders in order not to swamp the market in the North of Uganda.
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  An assessment of the economic viability of private animal health service delivery in pastoral areas of Kenya

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2001

  Community based animal health worker (CADW) programmes currently operating in Kenya are heavily subsidised by NGOs and bilateral donors and as such their long term sustainability is in question. Various models for the delivery of CAHW services exist each adapted to the particular social, economic and geographical circumstances of a given pastoral area.

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