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Intergenerational collaboration in Conserving Kaya Forests in Kilifi
Youth engagement in intergenerational dialogues has remarkably contributed to the enhancement of conservation efforts in the Kaya Sacred forests in Kilifi. In a landmark achievement that has contributed to breaking of a longstanding cultural norm whereby youth and women were not allowed to access the Kayas, the elders are now
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Eco-mapping and intergenerational knowledge transfer for conservation of kaya forests
Through an SGP Funded project, ICE promotes eco-cultural mapping as one of the avenues to facilitate intergenerational transfer of knowledge among elders, women and youth. Communities tap into their traditional indigenous knowledge and cultural values and practices and fuse them with contemporary approaches to reduce forest degradation. Here is the
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Eunice Ngoki, the Queen of Arrow Roots
- Food Sovereignty
- June 9, 2016
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At Ngurumo village, Ntakira Location, Meru, she is known as queen of arrow-roots. Eunice Ngoki is a member of Meru Jitegemee group. After training on agro-ecological farming and need to revive indigenous seed and crops, Eunice decided to specialise on arrow-roots among other crops that had disappeared in the community.
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Strategic Partnerships to Fight Effects of Climate Change
- Institutional Development
- April 11, 2015
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The first thing that strikes any visitor to the Thiiti Mothers group as odd is that there are men in the group! “The group was founded in 1989 by mothers who were then agitating against female genital mutilation but later they decided to strategically include us in the group to
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Farmers are the New Voice of Conservation
- Advocacy & Networking
- April 9, 2015
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Cathreen Kareaikwa is what you may call a typical African entrepreneur driven by both a passion to serve her community and the desire to turn up a profit. She is the outgoing coordinator of the Tharaka Nithi Environmental Change Network (TECNet), a conservation advocacy network whose existence has been facilitated
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Shaping Environmental Conservation Through Networking
- Advocacy & Networking
- April 9, 2015
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Besides the transfer of innovative agricultural farming technologies to farmers, the Institute for Culture and Ecology (ICE) is also involved in building the capacity of local institutions to champion the course of environmental conservation in their localities. In Machakos, it is doing this through the Masinga, Yatta, and Matungulu Advocacy
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Fostering Technology Transfer Through Strategic Partnerships
- Institutional Development
- April 7, 2015
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Anthony Kioko, is the Ward Agricultural Officer (WAO) for Matungulu and Kyeleni wards in Machakos County in the new decentralised government system. In the former system, he would have been the District Agricultural Extension Officer (DAEO). Kioko first heard about the work Institute for Culture and Ecology (ICE) was doing
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Kitchen Gardens Providing Food Security and Income
- Food Sovereignty
- March 14, 2014
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“As a flower blossoms, so shall be my kitchen garden”, those are the words that keeps reminding her to put more effort in what she does. Agnes Wairimu is a member of Nyamutuagaki Women Self Help Group, one of the groups ICE started to work with through Climate Seed, and
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Sacred Sites Critical to Biodiversity
- Natural Resource Management
- May 31, 2013
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For millennia, indigenous and local communities around the world have upheld the responsibilities of their great-great grandparents and their ancestors as the Custodians of Sacred Natural Sites and Territories. Sacred Natural Sites are critical places within ecosystems, such as forests, mountains, rivers and sources of water, which exist as a
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Kamburu Gets a Second Chance
- Food Sovereignty
- May 20, 2012
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The small garden occupying about an eighth of an acre is a beautiful sight to look at. On one side of the garden are neat rows of cabbages planted next to a bumper crop of beans inter-planted with maize. One can tell that the maize was planted recently because at
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