Author: Christine Waithira NjiruPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Impacts of Human Population Growth, Urbanization and Agriculture on Wildlife Conservation in Kenya
Author: Christine Waithira NjiruPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Wildlife, Wild Death
Author: Rodger YeagerPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438424582
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This book examines the relationship between agricultural land use and wildlife protection in two eastern African countries—Kenya and Tanzania. Although both elements are vital to the societies and economies of these countries, environmentally sensitive land-use practices and effective wildlife management are seriously lacking in Kenya and Tanzania. Within the broader context of environmental public policy, the book traces the origins of these problems in the different policy experiences of the two countries and explores their current dimensions and magnitudes. It also recommends future research and policy reforms that must be undertaken if Kenya and Tanzania are to achieve their developmental goals while avoiding environmental disaster and the extinction of their endangered wild animals. Through its analysis, the book provides a better understanding of similar conflicts wherever they appear in a world of increasing competition among threatened life forms.
Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development
Author: Ephraim NkonyaPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319191683
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 695
Book Description
This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resources. The annual global cost of land degradation due to land use and cover change (LUCC) and lower cropland and rangeland productivity is estimated to be about 300 billion USD. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounts for the largest share (22%) of the total global cost of land degradation. Only about 38% of the cost of land degradation due to LUCC - which accounts for 78% of the US$300 billion loss – is borne by land users and the remaining share (62%) is borne by consumers of ecosystem services off the farm. The results in this volume indicate that reversing land degradation trends makes both economic sense, and has multiple social and environmental benefits. On average, one US dollar investment into restoration of degraded land returns five US dollars. The findings of the country case studies call for increased investments into the rehabilitation and restoration of degraded lands, including through such institutional and policy measures as strengthening community participation for sustainable land management, enhancing government effectiveness and rule of law, improving access to markets and rural services, and securing land tenure. The assessment in this volume has been conducted at a time when there is an elevated interest in private land investments and when global efforts to achieve sustainable development objectives have intensified. In this regard, the results of this volume can contribute significantly to the ongoing policy debate and efforts to design strategies for achieving sustainable development goals and related efforts to address land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
A Contextual Framework for Integrated Wildlife Conservation Using Kajiado District, Kenya as an Illustration
Author: Timothy George LauxmannPublisher:
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Category : Ecosystem management
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Staying Maasai?
Author: Katherine HomewoodPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387874925
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The area of eastern Africa, which includes Tanzania and Kenya, is known for its savannas, wildlife and tribal peoples. Alongside these iconic images lie concerns about environmental degradation, declining wildlife populations, and about worsening poverty of pastoral peoples. East Africa presents in microcosm the paradox so widely seen across sub Saharan Africa, where the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations live alongside some of the world’s most outstanding biodiversity resources. Over the last decade or so, community conservation has emerged as a way out of poverty and environmental problems for these rural populations, focusing on the sustainable use of wildlife to generate income that could underpin equally sustainable development. Given the enduring interest in East African wildlife, and the very large tourist income it generates, these communities and ecosystems seem a natural case for green development based on community conservation. This volume is focused on the livelihoods of the Maasai in two different countries - Kenya and Tanzania. This cross-border comparative analysis looks at what people do, why they choose to do it, with what success and with what implications for wildlife. The comparative approach makes it possible to unpack the interaction of conservation and development, to identify the main drivers of livelihoods change and the main outcomes of wildlife conservation or other land use policies, while controlling for confounding factors in these semi-arid and perennially variable systems. This synthesis draws out lessons about the successes and failures of community conservation-based approach to development in Maasailand under different national political and economic contexts and different local social and historical particularities.
Wildlife Versus Agriculture Versus Livestock
Author: Godfrey M. SwaraPublisher:
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Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Living with Wildlife
Author: Agnes KissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Expanding settlements, crops, and livestock in marginal areas are reducing agricultural productivity and displacing wildlife.
A review of Kenya’s national policies relevant to climate change adaptation and mitigation
Author: Paul O OngugoPublisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 6021504453
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Climate change will impact many sectors of the economy: rural agriculture, biodiversity, hydrology, etc. Farmers are particularly affected since agriculture, livestock, fisheries, horticulture and agroforestry depend on specific soil, rainfall and temperature conditions. Mt. Elgons ecosystem is well known for its agricultural production hence our choice to study how the implementation of environmental policies affect the livelihoods of local communities.
Property Rights and Biodiversity Management in Kenya
Author: Patricia Kameri-MbotePublisher:
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Category : Right of property
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Environmental Implications of Population Dynamics
Author: Lori M. HunterPublisher: Rand Corporation
ISBN: 9780833043689
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This report discusses the relationship between population and environmental change, the forces that mediate this relationship, and how population dynamics specifically affect climate change and land-use change.