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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>
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  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. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&blog=1488722&post=892&subd=kenvironews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Africa Takes Firm Stance on Climate Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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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 must [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&blog=1488722&post=890&subd=kenvironews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Behind the Mau Complex Controversy?</title>
		<link>http://kenvironews.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/what-is-behind-the-mau-complex-controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dosma</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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Photo: Jane Some/IRIN 


Over the past two decades, the Mau complex has lost at least 107,000ha of forest cover due to irregular and unplanned settlements, logging and charcoal burning, as well as increased agriculture (file photo)



The continued degradation of the Mau complex &#8211; Kenya&#8217;s largest water catchment area &#8211; threatening everything from the spectacular annual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&blog=1488722&post=888&subd=kenvironews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya Threatened by New Urban Disaster</title>
		<link>http://kenvironews.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/kenya-threatened-by-new-urban-disaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dosma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rapid urbanization is changing the face of poverty in Kenya

“If the government does not acknowledge this crisis, it will get even worse. Failure to address this now will leave Kenya paying for generations to come.”
Philippa Crosland Taylor   Head of Oxfam GB, Kenya


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		<title>From Nairobi&#8217;s Kibera Slums to &#8216;Canaan&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://kenvironews.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/from-nairobis-kibera-slums-to-canaan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Pius Okello points at the entrance of his new home



At least 1,300 slum dwellers from Kibera &#8211; Nairobi’s largest informal urban settlement &#8211; have been moved to new blocks of flats under a slum-upgrading programme.
&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe I have left Kibera for good! My new home is so clean, we have a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&blog=1488722&post=881&subd=kenvironews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anger and Anxiety in Kenya Over &#8220;leaky&#8221; Condoms</title>
		<link>http://kenvironews.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/anger-and-anxiety-in-kenya-over-leaky-condoms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dosma</dc:creator>
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Photo: Laura Lopez Gonzalez/PlusNews 


An electronic test found holes in the condoms



 Kenyan AIDS authorities are struggling to restore public confidence in condoms after an alarming news report recently showed locally stocked brands to be defective.
KTN, a local TV station, showed the condoms, purchased from vendors in the capital, Nairobi, being tested by the Kenya [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&blog=1488722&post=878&subd=kenvironews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya Launches Multimillion Dollar Appeal to Restore Vital Mau Forest</title>
		<link>http://kenvironews.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/kenya-launches-multimillion-dollar-appeal-to-restore-vital-mau-forest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dosma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over 25% of Forest Cover Lost to Ecosystem Encroachments Threatening Natural Capital, Wildlife and Livelihoods in Kenya and the Region 
UNEP Pledges Continued Support and Calls for Urgent Action at Strategic Partners Forum 
Nairobi, 9 September 2009 &#8211; A multimillion dollar appeal to save the Mau Forests Complex has been launched by the Government of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&blog=1488722&post=875&subd=kenvironews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solving Kenya’s Food Crisis, One Indigenous Crop at a Time</title>
		<link>http://kenvironews.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/solving-kenya%e2%80%99s-food-crisis-one-indigenous-crop-at-a-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dosma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Kenya, persistent drought is threatening food security for some 31.5 million people, and more than one million face imminent starvation.
The United Nation’s World Food Program has requested $230 million for aid, but that seems too little, and perhaps too late for many.
Kenya’s government, looking for about $525 million in supplemental food funds from an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&blog=1488722&post=872&subd=kenvironews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya Farmers “need help to reap rewards of El-Niño rains”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dosma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
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Photo: Jane Some/IRIN 


Since the harvest from the 2006 long rains, Kenya has not had a bumper maize crop with adequate surpluses that could stabilize supplies (file photo)



Following below-average harvests in 2007 and 2008, Kenya&#8217;s grain farmers need seed and fertilizer support to enable them to make use of El Niño rains, expected between October [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&blog=1488722&post=866&subd=kenvironews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trees &#8220;vital for food security&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dosma</dc:creator>
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Countries tackling food insecurity and climate change adaptation can greatly benefit from agroforestry &#8211; integrating fleshy plants and trees into their farming systems, environmental specialists say.
Sub-Saharan Africa has a history of food insecurity brought on by meagre rains, land degradation, declining soil fertility and bad management of resources, among other factors.
&#8220;How do we, in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&blog=1488722&post=867&subd=kenvironews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Closer to Eden? Kenya Pledges to Plant 7.6 Billion Trees</title>
		<link>http://kenvironews.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/closer-to-eden-kenya-pledges-to-plant-7-6-billion-trees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenyan communities will undertake to plant 7.6 billion trees over the next 20 years to address massive losses in forest cover. Kenya&#8217;s Minister for the Environment, John Michuki, has demanded bold steps amidst economic, social and political unrest caused by forest destruction. According to the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, less than 2% of Kenya [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&blog=1488722&post=862&subd=kenvironews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the real price of your bouquet? Pat Thomas dishes the dirt on cut flower production in less-industrialised countries
In 2007, just in time for Valentine&#8217;s Day, then UK minister for International Development Hilary Benn told consumers to buy flowers flown in from Kenya, rather than European hothouse flowers. &#8216;People want to buy ethically and do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&blog=1488722&post=857&subd=kenvironews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jamii Bora Microloan Financing Giving Birth to Eco-Friendly Town in Kenya</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenya&#8217;s Jamii Bora Trust has teamed up with an American nonprofit group to create Africa&#8217;s first ecologically friendly town built with microfinancing. Some 2,500 families are slated to live in Kaputei, near Kenya&#8217;s capital of Nairobi. The families, most of who are from slum areas of Nairobi, will be able to purchase these homes with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&blog=1488722&post=850&subd=kenvironews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kenyan Nuclear Power Plans Forge Ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SciDev.net: The Kenyan government has identified construction sites for a nuclear power plant — potentially the first on the continent outside South Africa.
Rolex Kirui, a senior engineer for the Kenyan government, says that one site has been identified near the Kenyan coast and construction is scheduled to begin once an ongoing environmental study has been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenvironews.wordpress.com&blog=1488722&post=848&subd=kenvironews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Code of Practice in Kenya Protects HIV+ Employees</title>
		<link>http://kenvironews.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/new-code-of-practice-in-kenya-protects-hiv-employees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Your CV is great. But we need your HIV test&#8221;



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