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Kenya: As extreme weather drives rustling, pastoralists turn to farming
2013-04-03 01:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: In Nambeyo village in Kenya's semi-arid Isiolo County, former pastoralist Joseph Elila and his wife Pauline are busy threshing sorghum to remove the grain from the stalks. The couple has been converted into smallholder dry-land farmers after they lost their entire animal stock to cattle rustlers two years ago. The area is well known for pastoralism. But this kind of livelihood is threatened by worsening banditry, something experts say is a result of more extreme weather. Herders living in areas...
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Kenya: Miwani Sugar Back in Court Over Title Deed Holding
2013-03-26 07:27:00| Sugar Industry News
THE Kisumu High Court was yesterday urged to charge with contempt one of the parties in a civil suit involving Miwani Sugar Company. The sugar company\'s lawyer, Dave Otieno, said that Nagendra Saxena and Crossley Holdings should be found in contempt for refusing to comply with orders that it deposits in court, a title deed of the land where the company is situated.
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Kenya: Busia Firm\'s Employees \'Insult\' Villagers
2013-03-26 07:27:00| Sugar Industry News
TANGAKONA villagers residing closer to the West Kenya Sugar company\'s weighbridge at Tangakona in Busia County have expressed concern over misbehavior by the sugar miller\'s employees manning the cane weighing center.
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Kenya: West Kenya Firm Sues Sugar Board
2013-03-26 07:27:00| Sugar Industry News
WEST Kenya Sugar Company has moved to court seeking to overturn a directive by Kenya Sugar Board stopping it from the construction of a cane-buying center in Nyando sugar belt in South Nyanza.
Water-sparing rice farming proves viable in Kenya
2013-03-25 11:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: Faced with pressure on supplies of irrigation water due to climate shifts and an increasing population, rice farmers in four Kenyan irrigation schemes have adopted a new crop management system that allows them to grow their crops without flooding their paddies throughout the season. The Kenyan government, through the Mwea Irrigation Agricultural Development Centre (MIAD), has borrowed a technique from India known as the system of rice intensification. It has proved to be an effective way of growing...
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