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1 Hide, J. M.; Kimani, J. 2000. Informal irrigation in the peri-urban zone of Nairobi, Kenya: Findings from an initial questionnaire survey. Wallingford, UK: HR Wallingford. viii, 26p. + appendices. (Report OD/TN 98)
Irrigation practices ; Irrigated farming ; Marketing ; Land ownership ; Water management ; Crop production ; Constraints ; Social aspects ; Economic aspects ; Households / Kenya / Nairobi
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5923 Record No: H029326)
2 Hide, J. M.; Kimani, J.; Thuo, J. K. 2001. Informal irrigation in the peri-urban zone of Nairobi, Kenya: An analysis of farmer activity and productivity. Wallingford, UK: HR Wallingford. viii, 18p. + appendices. (Report OD/TN 104)
Irrigation management ; Farms ; Crop production ; Crop yield ; Marketing ; Farm income ; Labor ; Households / Kenya / Nairobi / Thiboro / Mau Mau Bridge / Maili Saba
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5925 Record No: H029328)
3 Hide, J. M.; Hide, C. F.; Kimani, J. 2001. Informal irrigation in the peri-urban zone of Nairobi, Kenya: An assessment of surface water quality used for irrigation. Wallingford, UK: HR Wallingford. viii, 18p. + appendices. (Report OD/TN 105)
Irrigation water ; Water pollution ; Water quality ; Monitoring ; Wastewater ; Effluents ; Water reuse / Kenya / Nairobi
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5926 Record No: H029329)
4 Cornish, G. A.; Lawrence, P. 2001. Informal irrigation in peri-urban areas: A summary of findings and recommendations. Wallingford, UK: HR Wallingford. xx, 54p. + annexes. (Report OD/TN 144)
Irrigated farming ; Gender ; Income ; Land tenure ; Tenancy ; Farmers ; Irrigation practices ; Water resources ; Water conveyance ; Crop production ; Crop yield ; Vegetables ; Labor ; Farms ; Marketing ; Credit ; Vegetables ; Constraints ; Water quality ; Policy ; Water lifting ; Water storage / Ghana / Kenya / Kumasi / Nairobi
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5927 Record No: H029330)
5 DFID; HR Wallingford; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana; Smallholder Irrigation Scheme Development Organisation, Kenya. 2001. Informal peri-urban irrigated agriculture, opportunities and constraints: Proceedings of a workshop held at KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana, 7-9 March 2001. Wallingford, UK: HR Wallingford. viii, 158p.
Water management ; Irrigation management ; Water quality ; Public health ; Flood plains ; Vegetables ; Crop production ; Economic aspects ; Social aspects ; Marketing ; Credit ; Irrigation systems ; Small scale systems / Ghana / Kenya / Zimbabwe / Kumasi / Nairobi / Ashanti / Volta / Accra
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7 G100 DFI Record No: H029360)
6 Thuo, J. K. 2001. Informal irrigation in the peri-urban zone of Nairobi, Kenya. In DFID; HR Wallingford; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana; Smallholder Irrigation Scheme Development Organisation, Kenya Informal peri-urban irrigated agriculture, opportunities and constraints: Proceedings of a workshop held at KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana, 7-9 March 2001. Wallingford, UK: HR Wallingford. pp.41-46.
Irrigation practices ; Water quality ; Monitoring ; Income ; Farmers ; Land tenure ; Crops ; Water use ; Water conveyance ; Surveys / Kenya / Nairobi
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7 G100 DFI Record No: H029364)
7 Hide, J. 2001. Improving irrigation in peri-urban areas: An assessment of surface water quality used for informal irrigation in Nairobi. In DFID; HR Wallingford; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana; Smallholder Irrigation Scheme Development Organisation, Kenya Informal peri-urban irrigated agriculture, opportunities and constraints: Proceedings of a workshop held at KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana, 7-9 March 2001. Wallingford, UK: HR Wallingford. pp.47-57.
Irrigation water ; Surface water ; Water quality ; Monitoring ; Rivers ; Effluents ; Public health ; Risks / Kenya / Ghana / Nairobi / Kumasi / Nairobi River
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7 G100 DFI Record No: H029365)
8 Hide, J. 2001. Improving irrigation in peri-urban areas: Findings from detailed farm studies in Nairobi. In DFID; HR Wallingford; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana; Smallholder Irrigation Scheme Development Organisation, Kenya. Informal peri-urban irrigated agriculture, opportunities and constraints: Proceedings of a workshop held at KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana, 7-9 March 2001. Wallingford, UK: HR Wallingford. pp.97-106.
Irrigation management ; Water quality ; Monitoring ; Wells ; Crop production ; Vegetables ; Irrigation canals ; Farm income ; Labor ; Crop yield ; Marketing ; Wastewater ; Irrigation practices / Kenya / Nairobi
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7 G100 DFI Record No: H029370)
9 Kimani, J. 2001. Wealth ranking survey of communities in peri-urban farming zones: The Nairobi experience. In DFID; HR Wallingford; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana; Smallholder Irrigation Scheme Development Organisation, Kenya Informal peri-urban irrigated agriculture, opportunities and constraints: Proceedings of a workshop held at KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana, 7-9 March 2001. Wallingford, UK: HR Wallingford. pp.107-115.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7 G100 DFI Record No: H029371)
10 Kabutha, C.; Mutero, C. 2002. From government to farmer-managed smallholder rice schemes: The unresolved case of the Mwea Irrigation Scheme in Kenya. In Sally, H.; Abernethy, C. L. (Eds.), Private irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Regional Seminar on Private Sector Participation and Irrigation Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa, Accra, Ghana, 22-26 October 2001. Colombo, Sri Lanka: IWMI; FAO; ACP-EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation. pp.127-137.
Government managed irrigation systems ; Farmer managed irrigation systems ; Small scale systems ; Rice ; Water use ; Irrigation programs ; Legislation ; Privatization ; Land tenure ; Income ; Maintenance / Kenya / Mwea Irrigation Scheme / Nairobi
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G110 SAL Record No: H030876)
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11 Redwood, M. (Ed.) 2009. Agriculture in urban planning: generating livelihoods and food security. London, UK: Earthscan. 166p.
Urbanization ; Urban agriculture ; Food security ; Composts ; Wastewater irrigation ; Vegetables ; Farmers ; Health hazards / Africa / Kenya / Ghana / Peru / Zimbabwe / Malawei / Congo / Argentina / Senegal / Nigeria / Nairobi / Accra / Kumasi / Lima / Lilongwe / Blantyre / Harare / Tamale / Rimac River / Kinshasa / Rosario / Dakar / Zaria
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: P 8021 Record No: H041927)
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12 Hovorka, A.; Zeeuw, H.; Njenga, M. (Eds.) 2009. Women feeding cities: mainstreaming gender in urban agriculture and food security. Warwickshire, UK: Practical Action Publishing. 390p.
Women ; Farmers ; Urban agriculture ; Gender ; Labor ; Farming ; Vegetables ; Fruits ; Waste management ; Recycling ; Composting ; Decision making ; Food production ; Food security ; Livestock ; Case studies ; Poverty ; Households ; Development projects ; Research methods ; Monitoring ; Evaluation / India / Philippines / Ghana / Uganda / Zimbabwe / Kenya / Peru / Argentina / Mexico / Peru / Senegal / Hyderabad / Manila / Accra / Kampala / Harare / Kisumu / Nairobi / Nakuru / Sonora / Lima / Pikine
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338 G000 HOR Record No: H042304)
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13 Hovorka, A.; Zeeuw, H.; Njenga, M. (Eds.) 2009. Women feeding cities: mainstreaming gender in urban agriculture and food security. Leusden, Netherlands: Network of Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF Foundation) 1 CD.
Women ; Farmers ; Urban agriculture ; Gender ; Labor ; Farming ; Vegetables ; Fruits ; Waste management ; Recycling ; Composting ; Decision making ; Food production ; Food security ; Livestock ; Case studies ; Poverty ; Households ; Development projects ; Research methods ; Monitoring ; Evaluation / India / Philippines / Ghana / Uganda / Zimbabwe / Kenya / Peru / Argentina / Mexico / Peru / Senegal / Hyderabad / Manila / Accra / Kampala / Harare / Kisumu / Nairobi / Nakuru / Sonora / Lima / Pikine
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: CD Col. Record No: H035923)
14 Prain, G.; Karanja, N.; Lee-Smith, D. (Eds.) 2010. African urban harvest: agriculture in the cities of Cameroon, Kenya and Uganda. Ottawa, Canada: Springer. 322p.
Urban agriculture ; Crop production ; Livestock ; Organic fertilizers ; Composts / Africa / Cameroon / Uganda / Kenya / Kampala / Nairobi / Nakuru
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 630 G100 PRA Record No: H043371)
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15 Mafuta, C.; Formo, R. K.; Nellemann, C.; Li, F. (Eds.) 2011. Green hills, blue cities: an ecosystems approach to water resources management for African cities. A rapid response assessment. Arendal, Norway: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), GRID-Arendal. 68p.
Water resources ; Water management ; Ecosystems ; Towns ; Highlands ; Urbanization ; Water supply ; Sanitation ; History ; Water policy ; Water pollution ; Wastewater treatment ; Water demand ; Water quality ; Environmental effects ; Case studies ; Discharges / Africa / Kenya / Cameroon / Uganda / Senegal / Ethiopia / Nairobi / Yaounde / Kampala / Dakar / Addis Ababa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046033)
http://www.preventionweb.net/files/19775_rraghbcscreen1.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046033.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046033.pdf
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Africa is currently the least urbanised region in the world, but this is changing fast. Of the billion people living on the African continent, about 40 per cent lives in urban areas. The urban population in Africa doubled from 205 million in 1990 to 400 million in 2010, and by 2050, it is expected that this would have tripled to 1.23 billion. Of this urban population, 60 per cent is living in slum conditions. In a time of such urban growth, Africa is likely to experience some of the most severe impacts of climate change, particularly when it comes to water and food security. This places huge pressures on the growing urban populations.
16 Hellum, A.; Kameri-Mbote, P.; van Koppen, Barbara. (Eds.) 2015. Water is life: women’s human rights in national and local water governance in southern and eastern Africa. Harare, Zimbabwe: Weaver Press. 620p.
Human rights ; Gender ; Women ; Equity ; Ethnic groups ; Water resources ; Water governance ; Water scarcity ; Water rights ; Water law ; Water policy ; Domestic water ; Water use ; Water availability ; Water quality ; Water user associations ; Freshwater ; Sanitation ; Landscape ; Land ownership ; Land reform ; Common lands ; Legal aspects ; Legislation ; Economic aspects ; Political aspects ; Colonialism ; Social aspects ; Local authorities ; Rural areas ; Urban areas ; Suburban areas ; Irrigation schemes ; Small farms ; Standards ; Institutions ; Corporate culture ; Community organizations ; Multiple use ; Food security ; Households ; Living standards ; Case studies / South Africa / Kenya / Malawi / Zimbabwe / Africa South of Sahara / Nairobi / Mathare / Mpemba / Chileka / Harare / Domboshawa / Lake Naivasha Basin / Flag Boshielo Irrigation Scheme
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047293)
http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Publications/Books/PDF/water_is_life.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047293_TOC.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047293_TOC.pdf
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17 Fuente, D.; Gatua, J. G.; Ikiara, M.; Kabubo-Mariara, J.; Mwaura, M.; Whittington, D. 2016. Water and sanitation service delivery, pricing, and the poor: an empirical estimate of subsidy incidence in Nairobi, Kenya. Water Resources Research, 52(6):4845-4862. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR018375]
Water supply ; Water rates ; Pricing ; Sanitation ; Subsidies ; Water users ; Household expenditure ; Poverty ; Income ; Socioeconomic environment ; Cost analysis / Kenya / Nairobi
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047759)
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The increasing block tariff (IBT) is among the most widely used tariffs by water utilities, particularly in developing countries. This is due in part to the perception that the IBT can effectively target subsidies to low-income households. Combining data on households’ socioeconomic status and metered water use, this paper examines the distributional incidence of subsidies delivered through the IBT in Nairobi, Kenya. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we find that high-income residential and nonresidential customers receive a disproportionate share of subsidies and that subsidy targeting is poor even among households with a private metered connection. We also find that stated expenditure on water, a commonly used means of estimating water use, is a poor proxy for metered use and that previous studies on subsidy incidence underestimate the magnitude of the subsidy delivered through water tariffs. These findings have implications for both the design and evaluation of water tariffs in developing countries.
18 Rao, Krishna C.; Kvarnstrom, E.; Di Mario, L.; Drechsel, Pay. 2016. Business models for fecal sludge management. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 80p. (Resource Recovery and Reuse Series 06) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2016.213]
Faecal sludge ; Resource management ; Resource recovery ; Recycling ; Business management ; Models ; Waste disposal ; Desludging ; Dumping ; Sewerage ; Waste treatment ; Waste water treatment plants ; Solid wastes ; Pollution ; Composts ; Public health ; Sanitation ; Latrines ; Defaecation ; Stakeholders ; Finance ; Cost recovery ; Energy recovery ; Biogas ; Organic fertilizers ; Private enterprises ; Institutions ; Partnerships ; Licences ; Regulations ; Transport ; Septic tanks ; Nutrients ; Taxes ; Farmers ; Urban areas ; Landscape ; Household ; Incentives ; Case studies / Asia / Africa / Latin America / South Africa / Kenya / India / Rwanda / Nepal / Philippines / Lesotho / Bangladesh / Mozambique / Ghana / Senegal / Benin / Sierra Leone / Malaysia / Ethiopia / Vietnam / Mali / Sri Lanka / Burkina Faso / Peru / Haiti / Dakar / Nairobi / Maseru / Accra / Tamale / Addis Ababa / Eastern Cape / Maputo / Dhaka / Ho Chi Minh City / Hai Phong / Dumaguete / Mombasa / Kisumu / San Fernando / Bamako / Cotonou / Ouagadougou / Kigali / Bangalore / Dharwad / Balangoda
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047826)
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On-site sanitation systems, such as septic tanks and pit latrines, are the predominant feature across rural and urban areas in most developing countries. However, their management is one of the most neglected sanitation challenges. While under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the set-up of toilet systems received the most attention, business models for the sanitation service chain, including pit desludging, sludge transport, treatment and disposal or resource recovery, are only emerging. Based on the analysis of over 40 fecal sludge management (FSM) cases from Asia, Africa and Latin America, this report shows opportunities as well as bottlenecks that FSM is facing from an institutional and entrepreneurial perspective.
19 Blomkvist, P.; Nilsson, D. 2017. On the need for system alignment in large water infrastructure: understanding infrastructure dynamics in Nairobi, Kenya. Water Alternatives, 10(2):283-302.
Water resources development ; Water supply ; Water distribution ; Water rates ; Infrastructure ; Developing countries ; Development policies ; Large enterprises ; Upstream ; Downstream ; Income distribution / Kenya / Africa / Nairobi
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048165)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol10/v10issue2/356-a10-2-6/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048165.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048165.pdf
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In this article we contribute to the discussion of infrastructural change in Africa, and explore how a new theoretical perspective may offer a different, more comprehensive and historically informed understanding of the trend towards large water infrastructure in Africa. We examine the socio-technical dynamics of large water infrastructures in Nairobi, Kenya, in a longer historical perspective using two concepts that we call intra-systemic alignment and inter-level alignment. Our theoretical perspective is inspired by Large Technical Systems (LTS) and Multi-Level Perspective (MLP). While inter-level alignment focuses on the process of aligning the technological system at the three levels of niche, regime and landscape, intra-systemic alignment deals with how components within the regime are harmonised and standardised to fit with each other. We pay special attention to intrasystemic alignment between the supply side and the demand side, or as we put it, upstream and downstream components of a system. In narrating the history of water supply in Nairobi, we look at both the upstream (largescale supply) and downstream activities (distribution and payment), and compare the Nairobi case with European history of large infrastructures. We emphasise that regime actors in Nairobi have dealt with the issues of alignment mainly to facilitate and expand upstream activities, while concerning downstream activities they have remained incapable of expanding service and thus integrating the large segment of low-income consumers. We conclude that the present surge of large-scale water investment in Nairobi is the result of sector reforms that enabled the return to a long tradition – a 'Nairobi style' – of upstream investment mainly benefitting the highincome earners. Our proposition is that much more attention needs to be directed at inter-level alignment at the downstream end of the system, to allow the creation of niches aligned to the regime.
20 Otoo, Miriam; Drechsel, Pay. (Eds.) 2018. Resource recovery from waste: business models for energy, nutrient and water reuse in low- and middle-income countries. Oxon, UK: Routledge - Earthscan. 816p.
Resource recovery ; Waste management ; Business management ; Models ; Energy management ; Energy generation ; Renewable energy ; Nutrients ; Water reuse ; Low income areas ; Economic aspects ; Sanitation ; agricultural wastes ; Livestock wastes ; Organic wastes ; Organic fertilizers ; Organic matter ; Solid wastes ; Solid fuels ; Urban wastes ; Agricultural waste management ; Briquettes ; Biogas ; Faecal sludge ; Kitchen waste ; Food wastes ; Local communities ; Sustainability ; Industrial wastes ; Municipal authorities ; Abattoirs ; Ethanol ; Sugar industry ; Agroindustry ; Composting ; Cost recovery ; Public-private cooperation ; Partnerships ; Subsidies ; Carbon credits ; Excreta ; Urine ; Wastewater treatment ; Wastewater irrigation ; Forestry ; Aquaculture ; Farmers ; Fruits ; Wood production ; Financing ; Supply chain ; Fish feeding ; Risk management ; Private sector ; Private investment ; Freshwater ; Deltas ; Aquifers ; Groundwater recharge ; Downstream / Uganda / Rwanda / India / Kenya / Peru / Brazil / Mexico / Kenya / Thailand / Burkina Faso / Venezuela / Sri Lanka / Egypt / Bangladesh / Tunisia / Morocco / Ghana / Jordan / Iran / Spain / Kampala / Kigali / Sulabh / Nairobi / Santa Rosillo / Koppal / Bihar / Pune / Maharashtra / Mumias / Bangkok / Carabobo / Veracruz / Balangoda / Okhla / Bangalore / Ouagadougou / Mashhad Plain / Llobregat Delta / Tula Aquifer
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H048622)
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