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pastoral setting from Kenya. Our results suggest that household decisions are contested, with husbands using migration …
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In Kenya's arid and semi arid lands (ASALs), drought is the most pervasive hazard, natural or otherwise, encountered by … households on a widespread level. This is especially true for northern Kenya, where more than 3 million pastoralist households … are regularly hit by increasingly severe droughts. In the past 100 years, northern Kenya recorded 28 major droughts, 4 of …
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Northern Kenya from the considerable drought‐related livestock mortality risk that they face. Detailing the conditions that … make the pastoral economy in Northern Kenya an ideal candidate for the provision of index‐based insurance products, the … district of Northern Kenya in early 2010 …
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This paper investigates the reasons for the low application of external fertilizers on farms in Kenya and Uganda. The …
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experiments in Morocco, Peru, and Kenya …
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relatively parsimonious set of regularly measured variables from communities in Kenya’s arid north, that generates remarkably …
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what should be done to alleviate it. Based on data from an interdisciplinary study of pastoralism in northern Kenya, this …
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Pastoralists in East Africa's arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) regularly confront climatic shocks that plunge them into massive herd die-offs and loss of scarce wealth. One of the most puzzling features of pastoralist behavior in times of stress has been their relatively low and non-responsive...
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