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Spatial and temporal Epidemiology of infectious diseases and animal production in a changing climate The Wangari Maathai Institute In smallholder crop-livestock and agro-pastoral and pastoral livestock systems, livestock are one of a limited number of broad-based options to increase incomes and sustain the livelihoods of an estimated one billion people1. Climate variability has lead to massive crop failure, livestock mortality and loss of livelihoods for many rural households in semi-arid regions in the Kenya. But there are major gaps in our knowledge of the localised impacts which seriously inhibits current pro-poor targeting of adaptation strategies.

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African Natural Products Research Network (RISE-AFNNET) The Wangari Maathai Institute The objective of the RISE-AFNNET, is to promote natural products science and technology competences in the region with a view to securing and sustainably engaging the African NP industry for socio-economic development. RISE- AFFNET was established by the Makerere University (Prof. Kabasa J. D.), University of Nairobi (Prof. S. G. Kiama), and Soikoine University of Agriculture (Prof. Mdegere R.) in 2008 to bridge this gap. The project is supported by Carnege Corporation of New York through-Regional Initiative in Science.

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Interdisciplinary land use and natural resource management (SLUSE) The Wangari Maathai Institute Status: Ongoing WMI in collaborating with The Danish Consortium for Environment and Development (DUCED) and the Green Belt Movement (GBM) mounted the Sustainable Land Use and Natural Resource Management (SLUSE) Field-Based Course. The course is founded on the acknowledged fact that land and other natural resource management issues cannot be adequately handled by any one discipline. The field course therefore brings together local and international students from a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, sociology, anthropology, economics, forestry and livestock production to address development difficulties of an identified rural community. The group explores opportunities for development of the communities towards achieving food and nutrition security as well as their empowerment. The Course utilizes experiential learning and research approaches. Start Month: March Start Year: 2012

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Stabilizing Kenya by Solving Forest Related Conflicts (STAKE) Printer-friendly version The Wangari Maathai Institute Status: Ongoing Kenya is riddled with conflict associated with instability, as evident inthe widespread violence after the national elections 2007. Much of the violence took place in rural areas, where conflict and competing claims over natural resources appear closely entangled. The underlying drivers of conflict and violence remain contested and poorly understood. Solving or mediating these may comprise an important contribution to the building of a more stable Kenya empowered to support development for and bring prosperity to its populace. In search of stability and prosperity, the government of Kenya in 2005enacted a new Forest Act aimed at improving natural resources management by decentralizing responsibilities and rights of forest management to civil society bodies, called Community Forestry Associations (CFA). Such reforms can be seen as an exercise of State building through adherence to democratic principles, whereby State-led governance becomes inclusive in the sense that it recognizes civil society based governance. In practice, however, top-down State-led governance reforms often ignore or disrupt pre-existing civil society based governance processes, which leads to further conflict and destabilization. This project seeks to further our understanding of how to build inclusive governance that furthers stability and prosperity by investigating the drivers of forest related conflicts in the Mau Forest Complex, and the role of the Forest Act 2005 in changing patterns of conflict. Collaborators: DANIDA Start Month: January Start Year: 2012 End Month: December End Year: 2015

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