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    • Rural women’s participation in Agro forestry and its implications on a sustainable environment in Nyando District 

      Onyango. L (University Of Nairobi, 2002)
      Poverty has led to a deterioration of the rural environment in Nyando District. This study set out to examine women’s participation in agroforestry as a land use approach that can contribute to a sustainable rural environment ...

    • Catchment Property Rights And The Case Of Kenya's Nyando Basin 

      Leah Onyango (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005)
      Attention to watershed management is increasing across the developing world. In India, for example, more than US $500 million is invested in watershed projects every year. There are compelling reasons to believe that this ...

    • Hydronomics and terranomics in the Nyando basin of Western Kenya 

      Leah Onyango, Brent Swallow, Ruth Meinzen-Dick (2005)
      This paper uses the concepts of hydronomics as systems of rules that define water management and terranomics as systems of rules that define land management and explores their linkages in rainfed agriculture and irrigation ...

    • Dynamics of poverty, livelihoods and property rights in the lower Nyando basin of Kenya 

      Brent Swallow, Leah Onyango, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Nienke Holl (CORE, 2005)
      Much institutional analysis in the water sector at national as well as global levels has focused principally on the working of law, policy and administration of water sector—the three pillars of water institutions. In ...

    • 12 irrigation management and poverty dynamics: case study of the Nyando Basin in Western Kenya 

      Brent Swallow, Leah Onyango, Ruth Meinzen-Dick (Academic Press, 2007)
      Three distinct pathways of irrigation development have been pursued in Kenya over the last 20 years: a topdown planning approach, a centralized service approach and an unregulated smallholder approach. All three pathways ...

    • Securing Water for the Environment in the Mara River of Lake Victoria Catchment, Kenya and Tanzania 

      Joseph Ayieko, Leah Onyango, Assefa Melesse, Michael McClain, Praxedis Ndomba, Rashid A Tamatamah, Victor D Wasonga, Jay O’Keeffe (2008)
      The Mara River basin encompasses some of the world’s most unique ecosystems and human communities, tightly linked by their dependence on water from the Mara River. From its headwaters in Kenya, the Mara River flows through ...

    • Rural livelihoods in changing, multifunctional landscapes 

      Meine van Noordwijk, Leah Onyango, Antoine Kalinganire, Laxman Joshi, Minh Ha Hoang, Nestry Ndichu, Ramni H Jamnadass (ICRAF, 2011)
      The main argument in this section is that changing (or 'transforming') landscapes and lives are mutually dependent on each other, as they are closely linked in time and space. Within the landscape continuum, the roles of ...

    • CCAFS village baseline study-implementation manual 

      Wiebke Förch, C Barahona, Patricia M Kristjanson, Philip K Thornton, Joash Mango, Leah Onyango, F Noor (CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2011)
      This implementation manual is to be used in conjunction with the step-by-step guide, as well as the templates for the debriefing document and the site analysis report. In the first half of 2011, CCAFS will undertake ...

    • Dynamics of street vending phenomenon in the Kisumu Municipality, Kenya 

      Jacob Olang’o Onyango, W Olima, Leah Onyango (International Journal of Arts and commerce, 2012)
      Street vending is the sub-sector of informal businesses that operate in urban spaces meant for other uses. It was believed that street vending would be absorbed by modern sector with time but instead it has grown to providing ...

    • Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Lawra–Jirapa, Ghana (GH0108) 

      Leah Onyango, Y Iddrisu, Joash Mango, Zena Kurui, B Wamubeyi, Jesse B Naab (CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2012)

    • Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Yabello–Borana, Ethiopia 

      Leah Onyango, Joash Mango, S Desta, S Tezera, Zena Kurui, B Wamubeyi, A Mohammed, A Fatuma (CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2012)
      The village baseline of Denbela Saden village in the CCAFS benchmark site of Yabello in Ethiopia took place from 10th to 12th August 2011. Focus group discussions were conducted separately for men and women. Denbela ...

    • Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Nyando–Katuk Odeyo, Kenya 

      Leah Onyango, Joash Mango, Zena Kurui, B Wamubeyi, Ruth Orlale, Edward Ouko (CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2012)
      This is the report of the village baseline study of Kamuana village in the CCAFS benchmark site of Nyando, Kenya, which took place from 18 to 20 May 2011. Population pressure has created land fragmentation and reduction ...

    • Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Kagera Basin–Rakai, Uganda 

      Leah Onyango, Joash Mango, A Zziwa, Zena Kurui, B Wamubeyi, O Sseremba, J Asiimwe (CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2012)
      The village baseline study of Kyengeza village in the CCAFS site Kagera Basin – Rakai in Uganda took place from 4 to 6 July 2011. Study participants are aware that their food security depends on protecting and appropriately ...

    • Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Usambara–Lushoto, Tanzania (TZ0105) 

      Leah Onyango, Joash Mango, Zena Kurui, B Wamubeyi, H Basisi, E Musoka, George Sayula (CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2012)
      The village baseline study of Kwang’wenda village in the CCAFS benchmark Lushoto site, Tanzania took place from April 27 to 29, 2011. Focus group discussions were conducted separately for men and women. Population growth ...

    • Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Albertine Rift–Hoima, Uganda 

      Leah Onyango, Joash Mango, C Bukenya, Zena Kurui, B Wamubeyi, P Birungi, V Barongo (CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2012)
      The village baseline study of Kibaire village in the CCAFS benchmark site Hoima in Uganda took place from 13 to 16 July 2011. Forests are exploited at unsustainable levels in Kibaire but deforestation does not appear to ...

    • Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Makueni–Wote, Kenya (KE0202) 

      Leah Onyango, Joash Mango, L Loo, H Odiwuor, M Mwangangi, E Mutua, T Mutuo (CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2013)
      The village baseline study of Kithoni village in the CCAFS benchmark site of Makueni, Kenya took place from June 11th – 14th, 2012. Focus group discussions were conducted separately for men and women. The village is in ...

    • Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Xai Xai, Zongoene Village, Bairro 1, Mozambique 

      Leah Onyango, A Raimundo Finiasse, Joash Mango, B Wamubeyi, L Loo, D Guambe, H Michaque Manhique, R Dixon (CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2014)
      This is the report of the village baseline study of Zongoene Village, Bairro 1, in the CCAFS benchmark site of Xai Xai, Mozambique in May 2013 to complement an earlier household baseline survey done in the same village. ...

    • Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Chicualacuala, Maluana, Mozambique (MO0145) 

      Leah Onyango, A Raimundo Finiasse, Joash Mango, B Wamubeyi, L Loo, D Guambe, H Michaque Manhique, R Dixon (CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2014)
      This is the report of the village baseline study of Maluana village in the CCAFS benchmark site of Chicualacuala, Mozambique from May 5-12, 2013 to complement an earlier household baseline survey done in the same ...

    • Verbal-Text as A Process of Compositional and Improvisational Elaboration in Bukusu Litungu Music 

      Abigael Nancy Masasabi (University of south africa, 2011)
      The Bukusu community is predominantly found in Bungoma district of Western Kenya. The Litungu is a word referring to a lyre among the Bukusu community. Music accompanied by this instrument is what is referred to as Litungu ...

    • The substance of African Divine Church choral music 

      Abigael Nancy Masasabi (Cape Town: African Minds, 2006)
      Choral music in Africa could be classified asWestern“art”, African“art”or indigenous African choral music, which includes traditional“classical”, ethnic, religious and folk styles. All over Africa, indigenous choral ...