Posts tagged agricultural sector
HABITABLE: Habitability and Adaptation to a Changing Climate: Impacts of climate change on agriculture and human mobility in communities in Makueni County, Kenya
HABITABLE: Habitability and Adaptation to a Changing Climate: Impacts of climate change on agriculture and human mobility in communities in Makueni County, Kenya

January 2025

This background brief scrutinises the repercussions of climate change on livelihoods and human mobility in three communities in Makueni County, Kenya: Kathyaka, Kikoko, and Ngulu. Following an overview of Kenya's climatic and socioeconomic challenges, we summarise insights from qualitative interviews from these three agricultural communities, focusing on the role of migration among other local coping mechanisms. The challenges faced by these communities exhibit common themes. This brief then examines Kenya’s policies and legal frameworks acknowledging different dimensions of human mobility related to climate change.

It evaluates the extent to which these frameworks offer solutions to the problems experienced in these communities, which, in turn, intensify migration patterns. We conclude with Photo: Alexander Bee; Art and Graphic Design: Mohammed Hadj. Concept: Florence Kim. ©UN Network on Migration (2022). 2 recommendations to address the climate change human mobility nexus in Kenya, in particular by tackling shortcomings in existing policies and legal frameworks and by bolstering community resilience and adaptation strategies.

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Samuel HallKenya, Habitable, Makueni, Climate change, climate adaptive solutions, climate migration, agricultural sector, mobility
FAO: Toolkit & Global Lessons Learned for the Sustainable Reintegration of Return Migrants in Rural Areas
FAO: Toolkit & Global Lessons Learned for the Sustainable Reintegration of Return Migrants in Rural Areas

April 2023

Samuel Hall conducted a research study for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to undertake a two-part effort to inform policy and programming on sustainable reintegration in rural areas in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. The two outputs of this collaboration include the present lessons learned report that offers the framework, and the associated Rural Reintegration Toolkit that presents the tools for practitioners to improve policy and programming on sustainable reintegration in rural areas.

The aim of the global lessons learned report is to provide a roadmap for collective action in support of returnees in rural areas and rural communities across a range of development settings. While the toolkit aims to support local stakeholders and actors in agrifood systems to integrate rural returnees into programmes and other initiatives to develop the agrifood sector. It provides resources to design and implement programmes and projects to facilitate the reintegration of returnees in rural areas. 

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Global, Implementation Research, Migration & DisplacementSamuel HallPandemic, COVID-19, Reintegration, Rural areas, agricultural sector
ILO/UNHCR - Doing Business in Dadaab
ILO/UNHCR - Doing Business in Dadaab

January 2019

Contrary to many popular perceptions, Dadaab is an area of opportunity with existing strengths that can be harnessed. This market systems analysis identifies these strengths as well as areas to build further, and provides the foundation for building opportunities to strengthen job creation and linkages between host and refugee communities as well as with private sector employers in Garissa county as well as with the capital.

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Resilience, East & Southern AfricaMaryam Meddinmarket systems analysis, Kenya, Dadaab, value chain analysis, economic development, economic, refugees, host communities, job creation, agricultural sector, waste management sector, ILO, UNHCR, labour market assessment