Kenya
The publication presents nine examples of successful projects, plus lessons on policy changes and approaches to scale up sustainable agriculture approaches in Kenya and Tanzania.
The yields on many farms in Kenya and Tanzania have declined. The reasons for this are manifold: the soil fertility is falling because of monocropping with maize and other staples; farmers are no longer...
Agricultural markets play a key role in the lives of poor people in developing countries. More than half the population in developing regions (58 percent) and more than three-quarters of the poor — defined as those living on less than US$1 per day — live in rural areas where agriculture typically constitutes 50 – 90 percent of household income. As a result, the development of...
This book is a tool for people involved or interested in communication and natural resource management who seek a better understanding of how different theories and strategic change principles relate to actual practice.
The book relates a variety of theories and change principles in simplified, almost schematic form, to a series of real initiatives in the field through interactive...
The main focus in id21 natural resource Highlights 6 is water. Five relevant research articles are presented that focus on various issues related to water resources.
1. Increasing the productivity of irrigation systems in China
- This research carried out by IWMI, Sri Lanka and partners examines how water used for rice irrigation is managed in...
Forests are not just crucial for keeping the global environment stable; they are also a lifeline for hundreds of millions of the world's poor. This paper presents community forest enterprise as a possible solution, which combines both avoided deforestation (the concept of richer nations paying poorer ones to halt planned logging) and poverty reduction.
Community forestry, the...
Marsabit Mountain rises from northern Kenya’s vast low-lying arid region. During the dry season, the surrounding lowlands are expanses of desert-like environments, often dotted with patches of dry grass and leafless thorny shrubs. In the lowlands, temperatures are over 30 degrees Centigrade and the mean annual rainfall is hardly 300 millimetres. However , around the mountain, the...
In the Central and Rift Valley provinces of Kenya, approximately 90% of rural households are agricultural, and of these, 73% have dairy cattle. Currently, over 1000 FFS on integrated pest management and/or integrated soil management are being successfully implemented in Kenya. Can the FFS methodology be developed for similar complex issues like animal production and health, where responses to...
Between August and October 2004, a study of household poverty dynamics was undertaken in forty rural communities in two regions of the Andean highlands of Peru to ascertain how different households have fared over time. This study took the same community-based ‘Stages-of-Progress’ approach designed for studying poverty dynamics and the role of livestock as did several similar...
This article looks at examples of mobile libraries in developing countries, and ways that they can be enhanced and operated using communications technology. It draws on examples from Mongolia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Thailand, Mali, Malaysia, Nigeria, Ghana, Uttar Pradesh (India) and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The author argues that mobile libraries can be a way of giving students access to...
This publication, the first in a series of reports covering the state of the information society on an annual basis, focuses on the theme of participation. The report has three interrelated goals: surveying the state of the field of ICT policy at the local and global levels; encouraging critical debate; and strengthening networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. It...
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