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Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Nyando–Katuk Odeyo, Kenya
(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 Lawra–Jirapa, Ghana (GH0108)
(CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2012)
The paper reviews the local institutional landscape, information challenges and opportunities for climate change adaptation that institutions within the Mara River Basin can utilize to support communities. At the local level, government, civil society and private sector institutions are at the frontline in harmonizing adaptation practices towards resilience to climate change. Local institutions act as the bridge between the national institutional frameworks and facilitation of local adaptation practices. The socio-political institutional landscape at the local level and its linkages provide institutions with climate change adaptation governance frameworks to enable undertake adaptation. However, information is a major challenge that hampers smooth uptake of adaptation knowledge and skills. This includes scarcity of information; limited access to available information; technical presentation of information; the cost of information; and poor flow of information in institutions. There are information opportunities within the landscape which can enhance institutions’ internalization and application of adaptation practices.
(International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Science, 2019)
This study evaluates the institutional structures and their role in hindering or supporting adaptation to
climate change. Structures are frameworks around which coordination, planning, management and
logistics takes place ...
Rural women’s participation in Agro forestry and its implications on a sustainable environment in Nyando District
(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 ...
Local Institutional landscapes and Information challenges as a crucial element for climate change adaptation: A case of Mara River Basin, Keny
(International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Science, 2019)
The paper reviews the local institutional landscape, information challenges and opportunities for
climate change adaptation that institutions within the Mara River Basin can utilize to support
communities. At the local ...
Dynamics of poverty, livelihoods and property rights in the lower Nyando basin of Kenya
(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 ...
Hydronomics and terranomics in the Nyando basin of Western Kenya
(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 ...
Securing Water for the Environment in the Mara River of Lake Victoria Catchment, Kenya and Tanzania
(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 ...
12 irrigation management and poverty dynamics: case study of the Nyando Basin in Western Kenya
(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 ...
Accessibility of water services in Kisumu municipality, Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2010)
One of the key challenges to the developing countries is increasing access to safe water supply to the
rapidly growing urban population, consequently, billions of dollars have been invested in pursuit of the
goal of ...