Jackson Wachira

• PhD Student at University of Nairobi

A working paper from the RARE project: Rights and Resilience, a DANIDA financed research project (2018-2022) involving institutions in Kenya and Demark investigating the relationships between resilience and land rights in the context of pastoral and agro-pastoral climate change adaptation in Kenya (Please see RARE Website - https://www.rare-net.org...

This presentation was made to civil society actors from Eastern Africa during their convention under the Data for Governance Alliance - Africa initiative. This initiative promotes evidence-based governance in partnership with institutions such as the Institute for Development Studies-UoN and Afrobarometer. I drew on the recent survey of the Afrobar...

In recent years, many community-based conservancies (CBCs) led by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been established on land inhabited by pastoralists in Northern Kenya. Despite a growing body of research, little attention has been paid to the impacts on pastoralists’ climate change adaptation. We provide a deeper understanding by consider...

Many large-scale land acquisition studies focus on the role of powerful transnational corporations, foreign and domestic governments. Instead, we shift the focus to the role of local actors, in this case, pastoralists in Samburu County, Kenya. Here, we apply the concept of 'intimate exclusion' and show that pastoralist elites' desire and ability to...

As debates on the colonial legacies in SouthNorth academic collaboration continue, there is a persistent need to address the structures of inequality in research partnerships from both sides. In September 2021, researchers from Kenya, Ghana and Denmark, working together in three multi-year collaborative research programs funded by the Danish Minist...

The 2015–16 El Nino weather was highly anticipated in Kenya. This anticipation arose, in part, from the experiences with previous El Nino events such as the 1997–98 El Nino rains that resulted in widespread losses of lives and destruction of property worth millions of dollars. This study, undertaken in Tigithi Location of Laikipia County in Kenya s...

The 2015–16 El Nino weather was highly anticipated in Kenya. This anticipation arose, in part, from the experiences with previous El Nino events such as the 1997–98 El Nino rains that resulted in widespread losses of lives and destruction of property worth millions of dollars. This study, undertaken in Tigithi Location of Laikipia County in Kenya s...