Some of the best solutions are found when people rise up to say, “that’s not good enough” and do something about it. Find out how two enterprising women, Eunice Maina and Sharon Ndegwa — graduates of our Women in Tech incubator in Kenya — are tackli
These studies (n = 54) focus on the assessment of production systems in terms of sustainability performance of the agroecological paradigm at various scales of analysis, i.e. from plot or farm scale to territorial scale. They evaluate, through the use of a variety of indicators, how the...
His insightful analyses and bold statements resonated with many, particularly the youth, who saw him as a leader who truly understood their struggles. His influence was instrumental in the 2018 political changes that led to the resignation of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and the appointment of...
Johnson, Leigh, Brenda Wandera, and Rupsha Banerjee. 2015. Competing Expectations in an Index-Based Livestock Insurance Project: Actors and Imagined Futures Paper Presented at ADRAS Workshop on Mobile Pastoralism and Index Insurance, Nairobi, Kenya, June 10. ...
East Africa has a long history of conflict and geopolitical struggles which persist in some countries to this day, for examples the civil wars in Sudan and Somalia. The IPCC suggests that East Africa’s situation is aggravated by the interaction of ‘multiple stresses’ which generate low ...
and 0.51. Jayne et al. ([2003]) report higher Gini of land per household for Rwanda (0.52), Kenya (0.55) and Ethiopia (0.55) than DRC. In addition, the distribution of land per capita in DRC is similar to Ethiopia (0.56) but more unequal than in Rwanda (0.54) or Ethiopia (0.55)...
While Tanzania had a smooth transition and many Indians stayed, the Kenyan population were offended, that more than half of the Indian population within Kenya applied for a British, rather than Kenyan citizenship. In Uganda on the other hand the cut from foreign powers was so deep that even ...
Struggles over redistribution may also put minority groups at risk of economic or political discrimination, or even violent oppression. This type of political instability is captured well by the "Minorities at Risk" measure of Gurr (1993), which measures the percent of the population belonging to ...
In 1999, Malizole Banks Gwaxula and Jacob Lief founded Ubuntu Education Fund with the goal of transforming the lives of the children of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. One was a South African teacher... Attractive Investment Prospects despite Economic Slowdown Property makes up 5.3% of Kenya'...
Participation (C7) excels in stakeholder input integration (C7.1) but struggles with equitable public involvement in environmental assessments (C7.3). Justice and rights (C8) benefit from timely dispute resolution (C8.6) but lack mechanisms for fair socio-economic distribution (C8.2). Innovation ...