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-arid rangelands of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. We first asked individuals to describe development efforts that have been …
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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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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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pastoral setting from Kenya. Our results suggest that household decisions are contested, with husbands using migration …
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In the pastoral and agropastoral systems of east Africa's arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL), climatic shocks, price volatility, disease outbreaks, and widespread violence beget frequent, severe disruption of already-fragile livelihoods. The past year's drought dramatically demonstrates that...
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