LAND USE AND SUSTAINABILITY IN KENYA: TOWARDS INNOVATIVE USE OF PROPERTY RIGHTS IN WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT Dr Patricia Kameri-Mbote ii Table of Content I. INTRODUCTION 1 II. BACKGROUND 1 A. Population 1 B. Value of Wildlife Resources in Kenya 2 C. Relationship Between Property Rights and Wildlife...
Traditionally, the Vertisols in Kenya were and still are used largely for extensive livestock grazing, however, due to increased population pressure and emigration of people from humid high potential areas to the ASALs; they are being converted to arable cropping. Vertisols cropping in Kenya is, ...
The Ndungu Report: Land & Graft in Kenya Roger Southall Published in: Review of African Political Economy, 103, March 2005, pp.142-51.The following summary of the Report of the Ndungu Commission on Illegal and Irregular allocation of public land provides an insight into a critical, recent ep...
Determinants and rates of land degradation: Application of stationary time-series model to data from a semi-arid environment in Kenya Z MGANGA Kevin, M NYARIKI Dickson, K R MUSIMBA Nashon, A AMWATA Dorothy Journal of Arid Land. 2018, 10 (1): 1-11. DOI: 10.1007/s40333-017-0036-0...
High rates of economic growth and Kenya's one-party political regime, instituted de facto in 1964, worked to tamp down overt expressions of political unrest. Download: Download high-res image (2MB) Download: Download full-size image Map 1. Smallholder Settlement Schemes in (former) Western, ...
, 2002. Determination of deforestation rates of the world’s humid tropical forests.Science, 297: 999–1002. Article Google Scholar Fridolin K, Helmut H, Niels B Set al., 2003. Land-use change and socio-economic metabolism in Austria (Part I): driving forces of land-use change: 1950–...
Effects of emitter discharge rates on soil salinity distribution and cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) yield under drip irrigation with plastic mulch in an arid region of Northwest China Sulitan DANIERHAN, Abudu SHALAMU, Hudan TUMAERBAI, DongHai GUAN Journal of Arid Land 2013, 5 (1): 51-59...
High rates of sediment accumulation in Lake Simbi, western Kenya, has enabled fine-resolution fossil assemblages to reveal short-term changes in vegetation cover between 4320 ± 250 yr BP and 2880 ± 90 yr BP. Pollen analysis of a 4.2 sediment core covering this period reveals a vegetation cha...
Meanwhile, the land transfer rate in other provinces has increased. Especially, from 2005 to 2020, the land transfer rates of Anhui, Tianjin, and Shandong have increased 42.84%, 40.89%, and 40.85%, respectively. However, the growth rate of land transfer in the country as a whole has ...
In this regard, rates and predictors of habitat conversion, particularly in a fragile communal semi-arid landscape, are fundamental for designing policies and developing effective strategies for sustainable natural resource use and management. Hence, the objectives of this study were to, firstly, ...