Authors: Avis, W. & Khaemba, W. (2018). Air pollution is a global environmental health threat contributing to an estimated three – seven million deaths per year worldwide. The effects of air pollution on human health are well documented in a range…
Climate Finance is critical to Kenya’s full realisation of the policy goals as set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the 2015 Paris Agreement and the African Union Agenda 2063. For developing countries, such as Kenya, where impacts of…
Farmers’ Agency and Experiences of Agricultural Change in Rural Kenya: Insights from Exploratory Fieldwork, STEPS Working Paper 102, Brighton: STEPS Centre. Authors: Atela, J., Tonui, C. and Glover, D. (2018) Using novel agricultural technologies to boost farm productivity in the…
Authors: Duguma, LA, Atela JA. , A. N. Ayana, D. Alemagi, M. Mpanda, M. Nyago, P. A. Minang, J. M. Nzyoka, D. Foundjem-Tita and C. Ngo Ntamag-Ndjebet. 2018. A new journal article published under the Ecology and Society is up!…
Authors: Joanes Atela and the Global Consortium team (STEPS Centre). A new working paper on sustainability sets out a new threefold framework for achieving transformative change under the Sustainable Development Goals. These include structural changes, systemic changes and developing an…
Authors: Joanes Atela, Kate Elizabeth Gannon, and Florence Crick This paper looks into ways in which female-led enterprises can be made more resilient to climate change while in turn contributing to household and societal adaptation. Overally the paper argues that women-led…
Authors: Andrew Newsham, Sarah Kohnstamm, Lars Otto Naess and Joanes Atela 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 and how well it will…
Authors: Peter Newell ;Charles Tonui and Olivia Taylor Understanding how, why, and whether the trade-offs and tensions around simultaneous implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals are resolved both sustainably and equitably requires an appreciation of power relations across multiple scales…
Authors: Joanes Atela ;Charles Tonui and Dominic Glover ISBN: 978-1-78118-417-2 Using novel agricultural technologies to boost farm productivity in the face of climatic and demographic disruption remains a priority for African policy and research. This paper uses an innovative, participatory…
Authors: Amber Huff and Charles Tonui Market-based strategies are increasingly being framed by highlevel stakeholders as ideal means of responding to environmental problems on various scales. As a result, concepts and mechanisms that link markets to local conservation initiatives such…