The majority of Africa’s people derive livelihoods from the agricultural sector. However, a rapidly changing climate hinders the continent from realizing its full potential in agriculture. Emerging patterns of climate variability and climate change have raised the
level of vulnerability for rural...
Kimeli, Philip
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Nyasimi, Mary
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Mungai, Catherine
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Kinyangi, James
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Recha, John W.M.
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[Climate Smart Villages: A Community Approach to Climate Resilient Agriculture and Sustainable Livelihoods]
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Climate Smart Villages: A Community Approach to Climate Resilient Agriculture and Sustainable Livelihoods
We use panel survey data and household event-histories to explore patterns of rural poverty dynamics in Kenya over the period 2000–2009. We find substantial mobility across poverty categories using economic transition matrices. Drawing on asset-based approaches, we distinguish stochastic from str...
Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Berg, M. van den
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Schipper, R
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[Rural poverty dynamics in Kenya: Structural declines and stochastic escapes]
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Rural poverty dynamics in Kenya: Structural declines and stochastic escapes
Rapidly changing climatic conditions in East Africa are increasing sources of vulnerability for rural agricultural communities. Current agricultural practices and institutional coping mechanisms are unable to cope with these changes, and calls for adaptation in agricultural systems. The CGIAR Res...
Kimeli, Philip
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Nyasimi, Mary
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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[Strengthening Farmer Adaptive Capacity Through Farms of the Future Approach in Nyando, Western Kenya]
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Strengthening Farmer Adaptive Capacity Through Farms of the Future Approach in Nyando, Western Kenya
Achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty will require simultaneous action on two separate fronts: helping poor people escape from poverty, and stemming the flow of people into poverty. This article examines forty Peruvian communities, and finds that descents into poverty have ...
Krishna, A.
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Kuan, J.
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Quilca, G.
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Sánchez Urrelo, A.
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[Fixing the hole in the bucket: household poverty dynamics in the Peruvian Andes]
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Fixing the hole in the bucket: household poverty dynamics in the Peruvian Andes
Silvestri, Silvia
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Douxchamps, Sabine
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Förch, Wiebke
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Mutie, J.
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Quirós, Carlos
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Ndungu, Anthony
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Ndiwa, Nicholas N.
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Mango, Joash
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Claessens, Lieven
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Rufino, Mariana C.
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[Exploring gender differences in household food security and implications for climate change adaptation in East Africa]
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Exploring gender differences in household food security and implications for climate change adaptation in East Africa
Three hundred and sixteen households in 20 western Kenyan villages — 19% of all households in these villages — managed successfully to escape from poverty in the past 25 years. However, another 325 households (i.e. 19% of all households of these villages) fell into abiding poverty in the same per...
Krishna, A.
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Nindo, W.
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[Escaping poverty and becoming poor in twenty Kenyan villages.]
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Escaping poverty and becoming poor in twenty Kenyan villages.
The practical utilization of available modern as well as traditional weather forecasting systems builds herders’ resiliency capacity to climatic shocks. The precision and reliability of the forecasting system determines its creditability and acceptance by the users to be proactive in the decision...
Ayal, Desalegn Y.
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Desta, S.
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Gebru, G.
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Kinyangi, James
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Recha, John W.M.
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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[Opportunities and challenges of indigenous biotic weather forecasting among the Borena herders of southern Ethiopia]
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Opportunities and challenges of indigenous biotic weather forecasting among the Borena herders of southern Ethiopia
Serneels, S.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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BurnSilver, S.B.
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Chenevix Trench, P.
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Cochrane, K.
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Homewood, K.
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Nelson, F.
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Thompson, D.M.
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Yahya Said, M.
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[Methods in the Analysis of Maasai Livelihoods]
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Methods in the Analysis of Maasai Livelihoods
Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Nkedianye, D.
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Kruska, R.L.
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Reid, Robin S.
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Gichohi, H.
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Atieno, F.
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Sanford, R.
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[Valuing alternative land-use options in the Kitengela wildlife dispersal area of Kenya. A joint International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and African Conservation Centre (ACC) report undertaken for the Kitengela community]
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Valuing alternative land-use options in the Kitengela wildlife dispersal area of Kenya. A joint International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and African Conservation Centre (ACC) report undertaken for the Kitengela community
Herrero, Mario T.
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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BurnSilver, S.B.
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Nkedianye, D.
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Kamuaro, O.
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Reid, Robin S.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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[Identifying the information needs of decision-makers in Maasai pastoralist systems in Kenya]
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Identifying the information needs of decision-makers in Maasai pastoralist systems in Kenya