Arid Lands Resource
 
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Committed to enhancing food security, social services delivery & reducing livelihood vulnerability in 28 drought-prone arid and semi arid land districts of Kenya through sustainable people-driven development.
 
 


Food Security in Kenya


 

 

ARID LANDS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROJECT II

The Arid Lands Resource Management Project (ALRMP) is a community-based droClick to view larger mapught management project of the Kenya Government (GoK) that utilises a credit facility from the World Bank. The first phase of the Project was initiated in 1996 after the World Bank-funded Emergency Drought Recovery Project (EDRP), which operated from 1992 to 1995, came to an end.
While the EDRP was a quick fix project to mitigate the effects of severe drought, ALRMP is a longer-term development-oriented project focusing on institutionalisation and mainstreaming of drought management activities in the Kenya Government system. The first phase ended on June 30, 2003. More


KFSSG SHORT RAINS ASSESSMENT REPORT, 2009-2010

Sustained deterioration in food security after a succession of poor or failed seasons that began in 2007 has been reversed significantly, after improved short rains in many parts of the severely drought-affected pastoral and marginal agricultural areas. In addition, the October – December 2009 short rains extended into January and February 2010 in some drought-affected areas in the northwest and southeast. Full report


KENYA FOOD SECURITY UPDATE JUNE 2010

Food security continues to strengthen across most of the country’s livelihood areas, particularly in the pastoral areas as well as in the critical ‘grain basket’ areas in the western and Rift Valley highlands after favorable and extended long rains. While food security prospects in the southeastern and coastal marginal agricultural lowlands have visibly improved, future prospects remain unclear because a substantial proportion of their short rains crop is likely to be lost due to aflatoxin infection, coupled with likely mediocre long rains crop output after significant areas reported below‐normal rains. Full report


JANUARY - JUNE 2010 FOOD SECURITY OUTLOOK

While a marked resurgence of key environmental indicators has occurred after resumption of rains in December, key food security indicators have yet to recover and the number of the food insecure remains at 3.8 million persons. The slow recovery is attributed to a combination of an under-resourced food pipeline; cumulative effects of four to five consecutive failed rainy seasons; lowered national crop output; continued high staple food and non-food prices; remaining impacts of conflict in pastoral areas; and disruption to livelihoods and markets caused by the post-election violence in 2008, in parts of the Rift Valley highlands.Full report


   
 
 
  EARLY WARNING BULLETINS


EWS Bulletins: June 2010

Archived EWS Bulletins

  REPORTS


Arid Districts

Semi Arid Districts

Printed Estimates

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