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ProjectSupport to Community Land Governance for Improved Tenure Security through Enhancing Institutional Capacity at the National and County Levels - TCP/KEN/3705 2020
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No results found.The promotion and enforcement of land ownership rights, in particular community lands, remains a contentious policy issue in Kenya, due in part to legislative and institutional capacity limitations at a decentralized, county level. In turn, this has limited the degree to which land administration and management efforts reach the predominantly pastoralist communities who inhabit Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL). Despite ASAL accounting for over 80 percent of Kenya’s total land area, ASAL communities have showed disproportionately lower human development and higher poverty levels vis-à-vis the national average. In addition, community land in Kenya is mainly managed under customary law frameworks or group ranches, accounting for approximately 70 percent of all land. Coupled with insufficient a land tenure support that is specific to their tenure types, ASAL communities have been marginalized within their own country. With ASAL further characterized by low and erratic rainfall, the need for diversified livelihoods that improve community-based income-generating opportunities is paramount. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetCombining nutrition education and rural livelihood support in Kenya
Trials of Improved Practices (TIPs) and food related interventions in Kitui county
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The arid and semi-arid areas (ASALs) of Kenya cover nearly 84 percent of the national land and thus present an enormous potential contribution to national agricultural production as well as basic food and income for farmers residing in these areas. About three in every ten Kenyan children aged below two years are stunted. According to the Kenya Demographic Health Survey conducted in 2014, Kitui county and West Pokot county had the highest stunting rates nationally at almost 46 percent. This is against a national average stunting rate of 26 percent. There have been multiple past projects in Kitui county that aimed at improving food security and nutrition, including through the promotion of exclusive breastfeeding, growth monitoring, immunization, complementary feeding and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Increasing Smallholder Productivity and Profitability (ISPP) project, implemented between September 2016 and March 2020, was designed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to combine nutrition education with rural livelihood support. This approach aimed at strengthening the capacity of smallholder farmers in agricultural production, water management, and farming as a business. Furthermore, it aimed at improving nutrition outcomes of targeted household members in the semi-arid counties of Kitui, Machakos, Makueni, Taita-Taveta, and Tharaka-Nithi. The project had a specific component on Trials of Improved Practices (TIPs), aimed at improving infant and young child feeding practices. -
ProjectIncreasing Smallholder Productivity and Profitability in Kenya - GCP/KEN/082/USA 2020
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No results found.Nearly 80 percent of Kenya’s land mass is made up of arid and semi-arid areas (ASALs). The ASALs have the highest poverty rate in the country, and many people in these areas suffer from malnutrition and food insecurity. Agricultural productivity in the ASALs is extremely low, owing to a lack of resources and opportunities for the smallholder farmers who live there. Leveraging the ASALs into productive, profitable agricultural areas would boost rural livelihoods, as well as food and nutrition security. The ASALs were targeted for development under Kenya’s Agricultural Sector Development Strategy (ASDS), and increasing food security was set as a primary goal of the Government’s Vision 2030 programme. The Increasing Smallholder Productivity and Profitability (ISPP) Project was designed to support both of these objectives by strengthening the capacities of local Government officers, smallholder farmers and caregivers through a variety of training activities and the creation of market linkages. Specifically targeting women and their important role in both agriculture and agribusiness, as well as nutrition and household food security, was an integral part of the project.
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