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Enabling modernisation, marginalising alternatives? Kenya’s agricultural policy and smallholders
Authors: Fredrick Ajwang1 | Saurabh Arora2 | Joanes Atela3 | Joel Onyango3 | Mohammad Kyari4 To address intensifying social and environmental…
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Community forestry frameworks in sub-Saharan Africa and the impact on sustainable development
Authors: Lalisa A. Duguma 1, Joanes Atela 2, Alemayehu N. Ayana 3
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Assessing the effectiveness of orchestrated climate action from five years of summits
Authors:Sander Chan 1,2 , Thomas Hale 3 , Andrew Deneault 1 , Manish Shrivastava4 , Kennedy Mbeva3 , Victoria Chengo5 and Joanes Atela6 Action-oriented summits aim to engage a multiplicity…
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The Impact of Community Based Conservation on Pastoralist’s Climate Change Adaptation
The Arid and Semi-Arid lands of Northern Kenya constitute about 80% of the country’s land mass and are inhabited by pastoralists–communities that predominantly rely on mobile livestock…
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Projected climate change and its potential impact on cattle in Kajiado County
Globally, pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities are amongst the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change (Thornton et al., 2009). Increasing climate variability and extreme events will affect livestock…
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Agricultural Commercialisation Pathways: Climate Change and Agriculture
Given the highly climate-sensitive character of agricultural production, climate change has obvious and important ramifications for agricultural commercialisation, which in turn has a bearing on…
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Gendered Impacts of Covid19
In the context that we live in, risks abound and are systemic in nature. Proliferating risks are emerging in ways never anticipated before. We now live in…
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Decolonising Academic Collaboration
As debates on the colonial legacies in South North academic collaboration continue, there is a persistent need to address the structures of inequality in research partnerships from…
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2024 DIGEST: Operationalising Just Transitions in Africa
The shift to a green economy presents both challenges and opportunities, especially in Africa, where sustainability, economic development, and social justice intersect with distinct local…
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Report of the Engagement between ARIN and the Office of the First Lady’s (OFL) Environment and Climate Action Team
Climate change is a global problem that disproportionately affects different social groups, sectors, and regions. According to an EPA report, vulnerable communities will…
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