Reports

“Nothing breaks a midwife’s heart more than losing a mother or baby to a complication that could have been managed if identified earlier on in the pregnancy,” says senior midwife Jackson Nyanamba. Over the course of…

FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT • Critical food security situation, with about 4.1 million people estimated severely food insecure between March and June 2022 • Severe pasture and water shortages, resulting in widespread livestock deaths • Mixed production prospects for 2022…

Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court Martha Koome, My sister SRSG Zaynab Bangura, UN Resident Coordinator Stephen Jackson, Reverend Dr. Samuel Kobia, Chairman of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission, Honorable Commissioners, Allow me to stand on existing…

Interview with Cyril Ferrand, FAO’s Resilience Team Leader for East Africa, and Carla Mucavi, FAO Country Representative in Kenya 15/06/2022 - What is the Desert Locust situation in East Africa/Kenya right now? Cyril Ferrand: The locust situation is currently very…

A prolonged, multi-season drought is driving acute food insecurity across the Horn of Africa, with millions of people on the brink of starvation. The situation is further exacerbated by escalating conflicts over competition for water and…

Abstract This report presents the findings of a study of the implementation of the Smallholder Horticulture Empowerment and Promotion (SHEP) approach and its contribution to human capital development in agriculture, particularly that of smallholder horticulture farmers in…

WEST POKOT COUNTY, SAMBURU COUNTY, Kenya -- There are two rainy seasons in Kenya: The long rains in March, April and May and the short rains in October, November and December. The past three seasons have…

ISIOLO, Kenya – As a frontline health-care worker at Isiolo County referral hospital, Denis Mutirithia has a critical role in saving lives – and a new digital tool to help him do so. The pharmaceutical technologist…

Dec 2021 In 2019 and 2020 alone, sub-Saharan Africa was hit by a once-in-a-century desert locust upsurge and the COVID-19 pandemic while simultaneously facing conflict, droughts, and floods among other shocks and stressors. More than 60 percent…

NAIROBI, Kenya - A spike in calls to the national helpline for gender-based violence was one of the first signs that all was not well. It was December 2020, about nine months into Kenya’s nation-wide measures…