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Large Scale Land Acquisitions and Pastoralists’ Climate Change Adaptation in Kenya
Abstract This working paper explores literature to establish the interrelationship between Large Scale Land Acquisition (LSLA) and pastoralists’ climate change adaptation. The paper builds…
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Contextualizing Pathways to Resilience in Kenya’s ASAL’s under the Big Four Agenda
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY According to Kenya’s Vision 2030 Development Strategy for Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands, approximately 89% of the country’s land area is…
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Climate change adaptation among female-led micro, small and medium enterprises in semi-arid areas: a case study from Kenya
Abstract This paper contributes to the literature on private sector adaptation by empirically exploring how female-led micro, small and medium enterprise (MSMEs) in Kenya’s …
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AGRICULTURAL COMMERCIALISATION PATHWAYS
Climate change is likely to alter the environmental parameters which affect where agricultural commercialisation activity can happen in sub Saharan Africa, what can be grown…
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Exploring the Agency of Africa in Climate Change Negotiations: The Case of REDD+
Emerging climate change regimes such as the mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) are increasingly aiming to engage developing countries such …
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Exploring the agency of Africa in designing REDD+ and the associated implications for national level implementation
Abstract Rules on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) are globally designed by multiple actors but the outcomes are implemented in developing…
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The Politics of Agricultural Carbon Finance: The Case of the Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project
Background In the negotiations for a post Kyoto climate agreement, Sub-Saharan African countries are engaging in policy processes and demonstration projects around land-use based…
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Locally led adaptation metrics for Africa: a framework for building resilience in smallholder farming sectors
Authors: Nwamaka Okeke-Ogbuafor 1*, Joanes Atela 2,Mary Gorret Nantongo 3, Leah Aoko 2, Charles Tonui 2,Edward Rajah 4,5, Joshia Osamba 2, Josephat Omune Odongo 2,Assouhan Jonas Atchade…
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Conflict resolution ecosystem management_ebook
Authors: Joanes Atela and Reuben Makomere 23.1 Introduction The use of ecosystem services draws in multiple actors with different ecological, social and economic values attached
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Enhancing Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries Through Community-Based Adaptations
Editors:Joanes Atela,Saleemul Huq, Cosmas Ochieng, Victor Orindi, Tom Owiyo About this book The book “Enhancing adaptation to climate change in developing countries through …
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