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This paper examines whether offering landless forest-adjacent communities options to grow appropriate food crops inside forest reserves during early stages of reforestation programmes increases…

30 November 2020 | Peer Reviewed | Kenya

Climate change, characterized by rising average temperatures and changes in rainfall amounts and patterns, remains a major threat to rural livelihoods. For smallholder households that heavily depend…

23 November 2020 | Peer Reviewed | Kenya

We examine whether the adoption of global voluntary environmental management systems - United Nations Global Compact and ISO 14001 - lead to more effective environmental performance. Previous studies…

23 November 2020 | Peer Reviewed | Kenya

The collective participation of local communities in the management and utilization of forest resources is now widely accepted as a possible solution to the failure of centralized, top-down approaches…

30 November 2020 | Peer Reviewed | Kenya

On-farm surface water storage systems can supplement irrigation needs and relieve pressure on surface streams. Using choice experiments, this study assessed farmer’ preferences and willingness to pay...

11 January 2024 | Peer Reviewed | Kenya

Limited non-farm opportunities in the rural areas of the developing world, coupled with population growth, means agriculture will continue to play a dominant role as a source of livelihood in these…

21 March 2021 | Peer Reviewed | Kenya

Poverty remains one of the key development goals for developing countries. Achieving this goals may be far-fetched given the increasing vagaries from climate change. This paper sought to estimate the…

20 March 2023 | Peer Reviewed | Kenya

Despite increased investments in the promotion of the adoption of sustainable land management technologies by developing countries, rural poverty remains prevalent. Thus, there is a need to measure…

20 March 2023 | Peer Reviewed | Kenya

The guiding framework for policymaking in Kenya embodies both a national and international outlook. On the one hand is the Kenya Vision 2030 while on the other are the Sustainable Development Goals...

10 January 2024 | Book Chapter | Kenya

This paper sought to give insights and inform policy on farmers' knowledge on climate change, the adaptation strategies and the intensity of adaptation. The research was carried out in Kirinyaga…

20 March 2023 | Peer Reviewed | Kenya