ARID LANDS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROJECT II
The Arid Lands Resource Management Project (ALRMP) is a community-based dro ught 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
KENYA FOOD SECURITY UPDATE DECEMBER 2009
Initial optimism of widespread improvement in food security prospects given the forecast for average to above-average rainfall due to the impact of the El Nino event has been moderated by a lengthy dry spell in November, after an early onset to the 2009 short-rains season. Areas of most concern include the southern and coastal marginal agricultural lowlands and the northwestern pastoral areas. 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
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