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		<title>Mau Forest Appeal Brings Multimillion Dollar Pledges and Hope to Kenya</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 10:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UNEP Pledges Support and Calls for Donor Action to Meet the USD $ 99 Million Target Nairobi, 5 May 2010 &#8211; Donors Wednesday pledged approximately USD $10 million in support of the Kenyan Government&#8217;s appeal to save the vital Mau Forest Complex, at a Partners Forum convened by the Kenyan Government and the United Nations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1488722&amp;post=935&amp;subd=kenvironews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lightweight kit for small farmers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new piece of kit in the form of a backpack could help small farmers in Kenya increase yields, profits and agricultural know-how in a sustainable way. The backpacks, weighing 15-42 kg, contain things which help farmers bring a crop to harvest, including tools, a training manual and, in some versions, a collapsible water tank. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1488722&amp;post=929&amp;subd=kenvironews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Merry-go-round&#8221; Micro-Finance keeps Kibera Residents Fed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Josephine Awuor, 34, always looks forward to her turn to receive &#8220;merry-go-round&#8221; contributions from fellow members of Msingi Bora (Good Foundation), a micro-finance group she belongs to in Kibera, Nairobi&#8217;s largest slum. Meeting weekly, the 23 Msingi Bora members each contribute 50 shillings (60 US cents), which is pooled for members to take loans from. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1488722&amp;post=931&amp;subd=kenvironews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political Will the Missing Link for MDGs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Chryso D&#8217;Angelo UNITED NATIONS, Mar 19, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; Despite numerous factors that threaten the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 &#8211; a global financial crisis, a food crisis, climate change, natural disasters – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said this week that his main concern is &#8220;political will&#8221;. Ban addressed U.N. member [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1488722&amp;post=927&amp;subd=kenvironews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Draft Policy offers new hope for Kenya IDPs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN A view of the Eldoret IDP camp after the post election violence (file photo) NAIROBI, 19 March 2010 (IRIN) &#8211; Internally displaced people (IDPs) in Kenya are set to enjoy greater protection under a national policy that also aims to prevent future displacement and to fulfil the country&#8217;s obligations under international IDP [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1488722&amp;post=925&amp;subd=kenvironews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WHAT is the relationship between the eight MDGs and the ‘coming of age’ of Soccer on the African Continent?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For when the sounds of the ‘vuvuzela’ start blurring across four South African cities, MDG campaigners will also stand up to make a point in order to be heard. A few days ago, the clock chimed a 100 days left before the global curtain is raised on the first-ever World Cup on African soil and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1488722&amp;post=920&amp;subd=kenvironews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>International Womens Day 2010 : Chronology of Women&#8217;s Rights from Clara Zetkin to Angela Merkel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The right to vote and hold a political office is a fairly recent development for women. Read a timeline charting the milestones in equal rights for women from Clara Zetkin to Angela Merkel. The first International Women&#8217;s Day was held in 1911 as a way to attract attention to the cause of gender equality. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1488722&amp;post=917&amp;subd=kenvironews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ethiopian Dam Critics Won&#8217;t Go Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ADDIS ABABA, (IPS) &#8211; Ethiopia is building a 240-metre high dam on the Omo River that is intended to end the country&#8217;s electricity shortage and supply power to neighbouring countries. Not everyone&#8217;s happy. The Gilgel Gibe III dam will hold back 14.7 million cubic metres of water. Its 1,870 MW generating capacity will be a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1488722&amp;post=913&amp;subd=kenvironews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kenyan Bumper Maize Harvest in Coast and Southeast</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo: Wikimedia Commons The Ministry of Agriculture estimates that about 540,000 metric tons of maize will be harvested from the short-rains season (file photo) NAIROBI,  (IRIN) &#8211; Kenya&#8217;s coastal and southeastern regions will harvest a bumper maize crop from mid-February following El Nino-enhanced rains that fell in December, according to experts. &#8220;The most likely situation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1488722&amp;post=909&amp;subd=kenvironews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tree planting in Kenya&#8217;s Mau Complex Signals New Beginnings for a Critical Ecosystem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nairobi, 15January 2010 – Kenya took a step to restore its diminishing water towers and address rapid environmental degradation when it launched a tree planting drive in the Kiptunga area of the Mau Forest Complex on Friday. 20,000 tree seedlings were planted on 20 hectares at a ceremony attended by Kenya&#8217;s Prime Minister Raila Odinga [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1488722&amp;post=903&amp;subd=kenvironews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What drives conflict in northern Kenya</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARSABIT, 18 December 2009 (IRIN) &#8211; Cattle raids, inter-communal resource conflicts and banditry are common across much of the arid lands of northern Kenya, where firearms are increasingly common among pastoralist communities. In 2009 alone, such violence claimed more than 354 lives, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Kenya. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1488722&amp;post=896&amp;subd=kenvironews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dandora Waste Site Under the Spotlight</title>
		<link>http://kenvironews.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/dandora-waste-site-under-the-spotlight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight years after Dandora, the site of Nairobi’s only rubbish dump, was declared full and a health hazard, tons of fuming waste from more than four million city dwellers continue to be added daily, exposing local residents to illness but also profiting a few. More than 100,000 people live around the dumpsite, a 13-hectare grey [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1488722&amp;post=898&amp;subd=kenvironews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Historic UN Climate Change Conference Kicks off in Copenhagen</title>
		<link>http://kenvironews.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/historic-un-climate-change-conference-kicks-off-in-copenhagen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copenhagen (Denmark), 7 December 2009 &#8211; The United Nations Climate Change Conference kicked off today in Copenhagen with a strong sense of confidence that countries can seal a comprehensive, ambitious and effective international climate change deal in Demark and with an unprecedented sense of urgency to act on climate change. The highly anticipated conference marks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1488722&amp;post=894&amp;subd=kenvironews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can indigenous knowledge reduce climate disaster risk?</title>
		<link>http://kenvironews.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/can-indigenous-knowledge-reduce-climate-disaster-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dosma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just spent three weeks in Northern Kenya among the Borana people, followed by three weeks in Mindanao, southern Philippines, partly with the Higaonan tribe. Vastly different countries yet I was immediately struck by the similarities in the challenges the communities faced, including drought, conflict, floods and general environmental degradation. In my discussions with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1488722&amp;post=892&amp;subd=kenvironews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Africa Takes Firm Stance on Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://kenvironews.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/africa-takes-firm-stance-on-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dosma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Africa will neither accept replacement of the Kyoto Protocol, nor its merger with any new agreement, say African climate change negotiators meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the last African major preparatory gathering, before the UN Climate Change negotiations in Copenhagen in December. Negotiators say actions for Africa should be voluntary and nationally appropriate, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1488722&amp;post=890&amp;subd=kenvironews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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