Since the early 1990s, public agricultural research and development (R&D) spending in Kenya has varied considerably from year to year, while agricultural research capacity showed a more stable trend.1 In 2008, Kenya spent 4.5 billion Kenyan shillings or 154 million PPP dollars (both in 2005 constant prices) on agricultural R&D. Unless otherwise stated, all investment data in this note are expressed in purchasing power parity (PPP) prices.
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A Different Way Home: Resettlement Patterns in Northern Uganda (posted May 2010) [text]Enhancing the Capacity of the Externally Displaced in the Post-War Reconstruction of Sudan: An Exploratory Qualitative Study on Development, Civil Society, and Good Governance with Sudanese Refugees at Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya (posted May 2010) [text]From the Right to Asylum to Migration Management: The Legal-Political Construction of 'A Refugee' in the Post-Communist Czech Republic (posted July 2010) [text]Internally Displaced Persons: Protection Measures Under International Human Rights Framework (posted June 2010) [text]Media Representation of Human Trafficking in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada (posted July 2010) [text]News Frames and Story Triggers and in the Media’s Coverage of...
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Over the past three years, payment strategies for emerging markets have been revolutionized by the advent of a simple cell-phone-based payment service in Kenya called M-PESA (“M” for “mobile” and “pesa” for “money”). From a small-scale pilot program in 2006, M-PESA has become an outstanding success in Kenya; customer response has been unprecedented. Currently, more than 9 million Kenyans use M-PESA to perform tens of millions of transactions every month throughout the country. Although this success has led to new opportunities, it has also brought about many unforeseen challenges.
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Most rural households lack access to reliable and affordable finance for agriculture and other livelihood activities. Many small farmers live in remote areas where retail banking is limited and production risks are high. The recent financial crisis has made the provision of credit even tighter and the need to explore innovative approaches to rural and agricultural finance even more urgent.
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With about 3,000 Kenyan women and girls developing obstetric fistula each year, you might think the government would have a plan to prevent and treat it. Think again.
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(Nairobi) - Tens of thousands of Kenyan women and girls suffer from obstetric fistula, a childbirth injury causing leakage of urine and feces, a direct result of inadequate health services and failed government policies, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
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This Thursday, PBS will air a documentary about aid projects that go wrong. Jeremy Levine documented a couple of projects in "Good Fortune" that were simply unwanted by the local people. One such project planned on flooding an area to of Kenya to make a large rice farm, but the people had to move out of their homes first to make way for the flooding.From the Salem News, writer Cate Lecuyer profiles Levine and the upcoming documentary. On Thursday, PBS will air what he, and co-producer Landon Van Soest, did film in the documentary "Good Fortune." It's on at 9 p.m. on Channel 44, part of the POV (Point of View) series.In rural Kenya, they follow Jackson Omondi, whose farm is being flooded. Across the country in Nairobi, they meet Silva Adhiambo, whose home and business in Africa's largest...
The recognition that the HIV/AIDS epidemic is a major threat to sub Saharan Africa’s economic development has prompted researchers to focus on the economic impacts of the disease. In particular, given the importance of agriculture for livelihoods in sub Saharan Africa (SSA), researchers have investigated the impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture. Relatively little research has focused on the role agriculture plays in fueling the spread of HIV/AIDS. This study addresses this gap in the literature and examines how agricultural contexts in Kenya influence women’s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.
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Amnesty International says that dangerous sexual violence is sweeping the slums of Nairobi. The women who live in the slums of Kenya's capital are in fear of using the communal toilets because they might get attacked. From Reuters, writer Jeremy Clarke describes Amnesty's statement. About 60 percent of Nairobi residents, or some 2 million people, live in shantytowns with limited access to water, sanitation and other vital services. Sewage runs though ditches and pathways are littered with garbage and human waste."Women and girls in Nairobi's slums live under the constant threat of sexual violence," Amnesty International said in a statement attached to its new report on Kenyan women in slums."Unable to leave their one-roomed houses after dark, many women in informal settlements resort to...
The broad objective of this study is to highlight key constraints, opportunities and challenges relating to interventions aimed at strengthening the nutrition security of people living with HIV who are on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment. The research took place under the auspices of the Academic Model for Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS (AMPATH). AMPATH cares for over 27,000 people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) in western Kenya, of which just over
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Kakuma News Reflector (June 2010) [full-text]- Mix of articles in this blog-format news service from Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya.Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 28, nos. 2-3 (2009) [selected full-text]- UNRWA has made three articles available in full-text from RSQ's special issue on "UNRWA and the Palestinian Refugees 60 Years Later."Refugee Voices (Spring 2010) [full-text]- From the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly. Lead article focuses on refugee community interpreters.Refugee Watch Online [full-text]- This is the online counterpart to the print version of Refugee Watch, published by the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group. To commemorate World Refugee Day, the electronic edition posted a number of articles from writers across South Asia that reflect on the displacement situation in a range...
Farmer field schools (FFSs) are a popular education and extension approach worldwide. Such schools use experiential learning and a group approach to facilitate farmers in making decisions, solving problems, and learning new techniques. However, there is limited or conflicting evidence as to their effect on productivity and poverty, especially in East Africa.
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(Nairobi) - Kenyan police at the Somali border and in nearby refugee camps are abusing asylum seekers and refugees fleeing war-torn Somalia, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Kenya should immediately rein in its abusive police, and the UN refugee agency should step up its monitoring of the situation and press for an end to the abuses, Human Rights Watch said.
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Continuing our series of guest posts from Concern Worldwide, a story about surviving in Kenya's slums. This post was written by Victor Odero who works as a program manager for Concern's operation in Kenya.How would you define the word “resilience”? In my role as Advocacy Officer for Concern Kenya, in which I am exposed daily to the life and death struggles of people living in absolute poverty, I realize that for me and the people whom I am trying to give a voice, this word has a significance that it might not have for others.An engineer would probably define resilience as “the quality of buoyancy or elasticity.” A psychologist might describe it as “the capacity to cope with stress and catastrophe.” I began considering the different ways people understand this word after...
This paper examines European Union (E.U.) demand for chilled fish fillets assuming product heterogeneity due to country of origin and assesses the structural adjustment in demand as indicated by the increase in imports from Sri Lanka since the tsunami in December 2004. The primary objective of this research is to assess how Sri Lanka’s fish exports affected fish exports from Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda (Lake Victoria region).
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Kenya is vulnerable to avian flu given its position along migratory bird routes and proximity to other high risk countries. This raises concern about the effect an outbreak could have on economic development. We use a dynamic computable general equilibrium model of Kenya to simulate potential outbreaks of different severities, durations and geographic spreads. Results indicate that even a severe outbreak does not greatly reduce economic growth.
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From IRIN, a story on how the social stigma of having AIDS in Kenya stands in the way of receiving treatment.Many Kenyans see HIV as a punishment for immoral behaviour, which tends to perpetuate stigma against people infected with the virus, according to a report by ActionAid International, an anti-poverty agency, and Women fighting AIDS in Kenya, a local NGO.The study, Extent and Impact of Stigma and Discrimination on Women and Children Infected and Affected by HIV and AIDS, found that 74 percent of respondents in 430 households in three districts of western Kenya felt people with HIV deserved their positive status as a punishment for morally unacceptable conduct, while 70 percent thought people with HIV were promiscuous."When you still have many people who view HIV infection as a...
Conflict, Security & Development, vol. 10, no. 3 (July 2010) [contents]- Mix of articles.Highlights from Addis, vol. 14, no. 1 (April 2010) [full-text]- Lead story is "Uganda Ratifies The African Union IDP Convention (Kampala Convention)."International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, vol. 5, no. 4 (Dec. 2009) [contents, selected full-text]- Mix of articles; includes "A Study of the Emotional and Psychological Well-being of Refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya."Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 36, no. 5 (May 2010) [contents]- Special issue on "Migration and Citizenship Attribution: Politics and Policies in Western Europe."RSC Newsletter (Summer 2010) [full-text]- Feature article is "Boundaries of belonging: Deportation and the constitution and contestation...
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This video from Concern Worldwide explains their program of emergency cash transfers for people in Kenyan slums....
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From IRIN, a new backpack that contains all of the tools for farming is being distributed in Kenya. A new piece of kit in the form of a backpack could help small farmers in Kenya increase yields, profits and agricultural know-how in a sustainable way.The backpacks, weighing 15-42 kg, contain things which help farmers bring a crop to harvest, including tools, a training manual and, in some versions, a collapsible water tank. They are designed for small plots of land and are currently being used in the Mau Forest region.“The nine month supply for a half acre [0.2 hectares] of land I bought, includes seeds, a plant nutrition system and water drip and it is light enough to be transported on my back” Rosemary Muthomi, one of the users of the system in Meru Green, told IRIN. Small-scale...
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From IRIN, the story of a Somalia refugee that still experiences human rights abuses in Kenya. Asha Abdul*, a single mother of five, can put up with the rubbish and appalling roads connecting the modern shopping malls in Eastleigh, a suburb east of Nairobi's central business district, as long as she is not questioned about her status in Kenya."Sisi ni Waria [Swahili for 'we are Somalis']; we don't like attracting attention to ourselves by complaining about poor services," Abdul said on 7 April as she fried samosas for sale outside her house in Eastleigh.She had just paid Ksh1,500 (US$20), required of every tenant on her street, to pay some young men to deliver two lorry loads of stones to cover the dilapidated road outside their homes."If we don't pay these young men to bring the stones,...
(The Hague) - A majority of a pre-trial chamber of International Criminal Court (ICC) judges today approved the ICC prosecutor's request to open an investigation into Kenya's 2007 post-election violence, Human Rights Watch said. The Kenyan inquiry is the first investigation begun by the prosecutor acting on his own initiative.
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For the wandering villages of Kenya, it's hard to bring children to a school building. For these herding villages go where there is grass and water for their animals. When an area dries up, they pack up the village and move. So instead of building schools, Kenyan public education have a teacher embedded in the village who moves with it. From the BBC, writer Will Ross proifles one such teacher and how he has to be creative in his teaching. The link to the story also contains a video that shows the classroom under a tree.With no walls to display any visual aids the teacher, Hassan Farah, had pinned a few posters to the twigs of the tree to help with the English lesson."We had more posters up yesterday," he says."But it rained last night and a few were washed away."The children operate a...
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Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries 2009: Statistical Overview of Asylum Applications Lodged in Europe and Selected Non-European Countries (UNHCR, March 2010) [text]"'Death is Different' and a Refugee's Right to Counsel," Cornell International Law Journal, vol. 42, no. 3 (Fall 2009) [access]Earthquake in Haiti (PAHO, March 2010) [text]Evidence-Based Peacekeeping: Exploring the Epidemiology of Lethal Violence in Darfur (Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, March 2010) [text]Frequently Asked Questions on IDPs in Kenya (OCHA, Feb. 2010) [text]Safe at Last? Children on the Front Line of UK Border Control (Refugee and Migrant Justice, March 2010) [text]Tagged...
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Cattle herders who crossed national borders to find green pasture have come into trouble with the Ugandan government. Instead of grass and water they found Ugandan forces seizing the cattle and accusing the headers of committing crimes. Now the families who depend on the cattle for their livelihoods now have to take international aid for food. The prospects of getting the cattle back is next to nothing.From this Daily Nation article that we found at All Africa writer Dennis Odunga details this tragic story.There are reports that up to 3,000 Kenyan herders are currently in Uganda with their animals. The pastoralists say the Uganda government is out to harass them, yet they are innocent."We can't all be criminals just because animals have been stolen and we happen to be on foreign soil,"...
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