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  1. Library Resource
    January, 2001
    Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

    It has been argued that many of the poverty reduction strategy papers pay insufficient attetion to the role of land access and land distribution in rural poverty. Redressing the inequalities between small-scale and large-scale farming sectots is likely to be an important element of an effective rural poverty reduction strategy in countries such as Zimbabwe and Kenya.

  2. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    January, 2002
    Kenya, Malawi, Lesotho, South Africa

    Series of country papers on HIV/AIDS and land in Lesotho, Kenya, South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania, with concluding paper on methodological and conceptual issues. The key questions addressed include: The impact on and changes in land tenure systems (including patterns of ownership, access, and rights) as a consequence of HIV/AIDS with a focus on vulnerable groups. The ways that HIV/AIDS affected households are coping in terms of land use, management and access, e.g. abandoning land due to fear of losing land, renting out due to inability to utilise land, distress sale of land, etc.

  3. Library Resource
    Training Resources & Tools
    January, 2002
    Kenya, Nicaragua, India

    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. Its modular design allows for individual approaches and targets development staff at the project and programme levels, with the aim of helping them to find practical ways of dealing with gender issues in rural development activities.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Kenya, Africa, Eastern Africa

    A conceptual framework for evaluating cross-breeding programmes in sub-Saharan Africa is developed based on a Kenyan case study. It depicts livestock production as a system where farm animals, plants, land and water are interlinked in particular ways and are also interlinked with the environment. Depending on the level of intensification and `modernisation', two livestock systems are defined. The first is the traditional livestock production system in which farm animals, plants, land and water are interlinked in a sustainable way with each component complementing the other.

  5. Library Resource
    Multimedia
    December, 2001
    Kenya, Eastern Africa, Africa

    Catherine Gatundu describing how the Forest Action Network is helping communities in Kenya to stand up for their rights to clean, safe water.

  6. Library Resource
    Multimedia
    December, 2001
    Kenya, Eastern Africa, Africa

    Mr. Situma Mwichebe talking to Ann Mikia about the reality of water rights in Kenya.

  7. Library Resource
    January, 2001
    Kenya, Sub-Saharan Africa

    This literature review explores the range of writings available concerning pastoral conflict in northern Kenya. It argues that that conflict has grown rapidly in Africa in the least three decades, and pastoral areas are among the most vulnerable. For this reason, there is an urgent need for a stocktaking of contemporary analysis of conflict.

  8. Library Resource
    January, 2002
    Kenya, Sub-Saharan Africa

    This report addresses the challenges of land management in the Lake Victoria basin of East Africa. In 1999 the World Agroforestry Centre launched a major effort to identify, diagnose and reverse degradation in the Lake Victoria basin, focusing primarily on the Kenyan part of the basin. Dubbed “TransVic,” this project was supported by a number of donor agencies and collaborators, with particularly strong support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).

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