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Women, Land Rights and the Environment: The Kenyan experience
No full textGender neutral statutory law on land and environment and its interplay with customary, religious and other social norms has impacted significantly on women's rights to access land and environmental resources. To change the prevailing conditions, innovative and radical approaches to land and environmental resources' stewardship are required. Rather than focusing on ownership of land for its own sake, we suggest here that roles that individuals play with regard to the land and environmental resources should determine rights to land and environmental resources. Such a focus would shift the locus of land and environmental resources' control from titular male household heads to the labourers and tenders of land who are mainly women. Development (2006) 49, 43–48. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100274
Coming to life
No full textComing to life: biotechnology in African economic recovery
edited by C Juma, J Mugabe and P Kameri-Mbote 1995 192pp
ISBN 9966 41 087 2 price Ksks350, UKL 13.95
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Nairobi, KENYA
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Separating The Baby From The Bath Water: Women\'s Rights And The Politics Of Constitution-Making In Kenya
No full textThis article looks at the process of constitution-making in Kenya from 1990s to 2005 when the proposed new constitution (the product of the process) was rejected in a national referendum held in October 2005. It avers that Kenyan women had succeeded in getting many of the issues that they considered important included in the constitution and should have lobbied to have that constitution adopted. The defeat of the constitution, the authors assert amounted to throwing away the baby with the bath water. It also negated
gains that seemed so close to being realised setting the quest for gender equality back considerably. East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights Vol. 14 (1) 2008: pp. 1-4
Invitation to a Public Lecture Speakers of the Senate and National Assembly
No full textThe UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI will host speakers of the National Assembly and Senate, Hon. Justin B.N. Muturi, MP, and Hon. Senator Ekwee Ethuro respectively, in a public lecture to discuss:
THE ROLE OF THE PARLIAMENT OF KENYA (THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY & THE SENATE) IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONSTITUTION 2010.
The lecture is part of the activities undertaken by the University to enlighten students, staff and alumni on the contents of the Constitution 2010.
The lecture will be held in Taifa Hall on November 8, 2013 from 2.00 PM
Moderator: Prof. Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Dean, School of Law
Guests should seated by 1.45 P
Global Threats, Global Changes and Connected Communities in the Global Agrofood System
No full textThis chapter seeks to help develop a conceptual basis for developing strategies to promote the process of global change required to deal with contemporary global problems. It does so, by drawing upon insights from Ulrich Beck's work on (global) risk society and reflexive modernization so as to understand the complex relations between previous development patterns, current problems and the conditions for future global changes.Drawing on the case of the implementation (in France, Germany and Portugal) of measure to bring the EU's Common Agricultural Polocy (CAP) more in line with sustainable development, we conclude that here reflexive modernization was promoted by local communities but, ironically, also by liberalization of global trade; occurred espeially when the ground had been prepared by earlier developments; and may create their own side effects
Changing population size and distribution as a security concern
No full textPopulation concerns are at the very heart of most security concerns ranging from more traditional military and political to economic, environmental, social, and human security considerations
African Water Laws: Plural Legislative Frameworks For Rural Water Management in Africa: an international workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26-28 January 2005
Get PDFWater law / Water management / Water policy / Poverty / River basins / Irrigation systems / Institutions / Wetlands
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