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    Implementing Farmers’ Rights under the FAO International Treaty on PGRFA: The need for a Broad Approach based on Biocultural Heritage

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2011
    The FAO Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) seeks to protect Farmers’ Rights through equitable benefit-sharing from the use of farmers’ crop varieties. It recognises the enormous contribution that indigenous and local communities and farmers have made to the conservation and development of crop genetic resources.
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    Gender, agricultural commercialization, and collective action in Kenya

    AgEcon Search, 2012
    With the commercialisation of agriculture, women are increasingly disadvantaged because of persistent gender-disparities in access to productive resources. This paper believes that farmer collective action that intends to improve smallholder access to markets and technology could potentially accelerate this trend.
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    Environmental change and maize innovation in Kenya: exploring pathways in and out of maize

    STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2009
    Maize is a socially, politically and economically staple crop in Kenya. This paper summarises the findings of the STEPS Environmental Change and Maize Innovation in Kenya project, which utilised maize as a window through which to explore differential responses to climate change.
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    Getting to the Hardest to Reach: A strategy to provide education to nomadic communities in Kenya through distance learning

    2010
    Kenya has committed itself to the Millennium Development Goals, Education for All, and other education targets, but despite its achievement, Kenya is unlikely to achieve these goals on present performance. Getting education to hard-to-reach children, especially nomadic pastoralists is a major challenge.
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    Mobile Pastoralists and Education: Strategic Options

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2009
    Educating nomadic peoples in the context of rapid global socio-economic change is a challenge of massive proportions.
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    Living on a Spike

    Oxfam, 2011
    The human face of global food price rises is often missing amongst the abstract discussions of macro-economic trends and global food price indices. In order to understand the impact of the rise in global food prices through much of 2010 and into early 2011, Oxfam and research partners from the Institute of Development Studies spoke to people effected in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, and Zambia.
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    Achieving food security in the face of climate change: final report from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change

    Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
    This report, released by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, identifies a set of clear actions to be undertaken by key stakeholders to achieve food security in the context of climate change.
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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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    ICTs and small-scale agriculture in Africa: A scoping study

    International Development Research Centre, 2007
    This study aims to explore the opportunities presented by ICTs in small-scale agriculture including environment and natural resources management. It specifically sets out to answer a set of research questions as follows:
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    Gender, ICTs and Agriculture

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2002
    This report examines the digital divide that exists between developing nations of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific and the rest of the world. The report highlights the following issues:

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