Describes the research approach adopted by an interdisciplinary ILCA team to study a pastoralist production system, summarizing the methodology & results of research on small ruminants' productivity in the Maasai pastoral system, and outlining dif. features of current smallstock research in Kenya; w. an analysis of flock productivity, mortality, animal nutrition & behaviour at the Elangata Wuas group ranch.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 1982Kenya, Africa, Eastern Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 1981Kenya, Africa, Eastern Africa
Examines the interdisciplinary research being pursued by the ILCA East African Range Livestock Systems Study (EARLSS) team in Kenya, discussing the rationale for an interdisciplinary aproach to the study, factors which led to the concentration of the team's investigation on Maasai pastoralists, and background information on Kenya's Kajiado District & on the three group ranches where the study is focused. Describes the research design & methodology adopted by the EARLSS team, including the initial inventory survey, sampling procedures, dif.
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The Tour to Kenyan CSOs Involved in the Constitutional Review
Reports & ResearchDecember, 2012Kenya, TanzaniaThis trip report includes key essential areas which were core areas of the tour; aim of the tour, list of organization visited and brief explanation about them, key issues of their advocacy, method they had applied, their experience, success, challenges and lesson learnt
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2013Kenya
News, views and experiences of policy-makers, practitioners and communities on making rangelands secure for local users
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Best practices and approaches for the protection of Community Land Rights in Kenya.
Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2013KenyaA report of a Conference held in Nairobi 6-7th June 2013. Includes case studies on community land rights from South Africa, Uganda, Mozambique, Rwanda, Brazil and Kenya.
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A paper presented at the conference Future of Pastoralism, Addis Ababa
Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2011KenyaThis paper presents a discussion of the communal tenure system in Olkiramatian, a group ranch in the southern rangelands of Kenya which has granted the residents the flexibility and choice to pursue diversification alternatives that demand open landscapes.
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A study of northern Kenya
Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2011KenyaA series of papers on land use administration, land use change, securing of rights to resources and other in Laikipia, Kenya.
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AWF Working Paper
Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2007KenyaConservation enterprises are commercial activities designed to create benefit flows that support a conservation objective. The Koija ‘Starbeds’ Ecolodge was created jointly by a community group, a private sector partner and the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) to help protect a critical wildlife corridor and habitat along the Ewaso Nyiro River in the Samburu Heartland (www.awf.org). Many conservation enterprises claim success mainly based on their noble intentions,
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An assessment of Natural Resource Governance in Garba Tula, Northern Kenya
Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2011KenyaIUCN’s work in Garba Tula (GT) through this project has now been underway for almost two years, and to date a number of activities have been implemented in the area. This has included: sensitization and awareness raising of local community members; providing support to help strengthen the operations of the Resource Advocacy Programme (RAP – a local NGO working in the Garba Tula area); and supporting work carried out by RAP members to document traditional institutions and strategies for governing natural resources in the Garba Tula area.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2011Kenya
A summary of IUCN's work with the Resource Advocacy Project and the communities of Garba Tula, in order to secure rights to resources and improve conservatin practices.
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