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Changing Land Use Patterns and Their Impacts on Wild Ungulates in Kimana Wetland Ecosystem, Kenya

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2014
Kenya
Forest Landscape Restoration
deforestation
In Kenya, wildlife numbers have drastically declined due to land use changes (LUCs) over the past three decades. This has affected wildlife habitats by converting them into farmlands and human settlements. This study used remote sensing data from landsat satellite to analyze the changing land use patterns between 1980 and 2013 and their impacts on wild ungulates in KWE. The objective of the study was to map out LUCs, determine the possible causes of LUCs, and examine the effects of LUCs on wild ungulates.
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Rangelands: Conservation and “Land Grabbing” in Rangelands: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mongolia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land acquisitions
land rights
land tenure
land tenure
land tenure systems
land use
rangelands
Large-scale land acquisitions have increased in scale and pace due to changes in commodity markets, agricultural investment strategies, land prices, and a range of other policy and market forces. The areas most affected are the global “commons” – lands that local people traditionally use collectively — including much of the world’s forests, wetlands, and rangelands. In some cases land acquisition occurs with environmental objectives in sight – including the setting aside of land as protected areas for biodiversity conservation.
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Terra Incognita:Land degradation as underestimated threat amplifier. Clingendael Report

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Kenya, Mali, Rwanda, Tunisia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
food security
land access
Land degradation is increasingly recognised as global challenge and is even pushed for as candidate for a (post-2015) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). The ‘quality of soil’ has been linked to the emergence of conflict, inter alia since it aggravates food and water scarcity. It is an underestimated, but essential element in the nexus of global challenges related to food, water and energy. This Clingendael Report, finds, amongst others, that accurate assessments on land degradation and efforts to restore lands are still lacking to date.
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I want it and i want it now: women and land in Africa

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Kenya
Land & Gender
women
In Africa, as elsewhere, land rights have remained a bastion of male power and privilege. Since land is a fundamental resource for improving living conditions and economic empowerment, the lack of land rights for women undermines efforts to promote gender equity and equality within a patriarchal society. The minimal transformation of women’s socio-economic position with regards to access and control of land is, in many cases, due to land reform programmes and related processes whose design or implementation is “gender neutral”.
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Special issue of nomadic peoples on securing the land and resource rights of pastoral peoples in east Africa

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Kenya
land
research
The land question in many African countries has geographical, political, economic, social and demographic nuances. These factors color land and resource rights for pastoral and forest dwelling communities. Land as property draws from the universality of the theory of property in time and space with the earliest theoretical explanations of property being occupation of land and where property belonged of right to him who seized it first. Land therefore represents the earliest form of property and includes resources on the land such as trees; pasture; water and wetlands.
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Putting a Spin on Jatropha:

How conservationist Rhetoric Drove Bedford Biofuels out of Tana Delta - Kenya

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Kenya
land
research
When the Canadian company Bedford Biofuels (BB) started talks with local ranch owners in Tana Delta district (Kenya) about subleasing their land for a large jatropha plantation, they were not the first ones to come to the region for a large-scale agricultural project. Nor were they the first to explore the possibilities of starting a jatropha plantation in Kenya’s coastal area.
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Effects of soil erosion on sediment dynamics, food security and rural poverty in Makueni District

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Kenya
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
land degradation
poverty
Makueni District has experienced low crop production per unit area despite increased hectarage under crop
production. The district relies heavily on farming for food and income generating activities for the households.
However, poverty level has been on the increase due to poor crop production and limited diversity in sources of
income. Analysis of field survey carried in the district shows high variability of soil nutrients (Nitrogen,
Phosphorous, and potassium), Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) and soil pH due to various land use systems
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The epizootiology of foot - and - mouth disease in high risk zones in Kenya

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Kenya
land
research
Foot
-
and
-
mouth disease remains a serious endemic disease in Kenya causing extensive production
losses in
the dairy industry.
I
n
order to
understand
the
foot
-
and
-
mouth disease (FMD)
situation
in Kenya and related
risk factors
in
high risk zones that include;
the
trade and stock routes,
national parks and game reserves, proposed disease free zones and borderlan
ds;
a
cross sectional
sero
-
survey
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The Mara-Serengeti Ecosystem and Greater Maasailand: Building the Role of Local Leaders, Institutions, and Communities

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Kenya, Africa, Eastern Africa
climate change
food security
agriculture
Much of the effort to include communities in conservation of large

landscapes has been driven by interests outside the savannas, either by national

governments, NGOs, or foreign conservationists (Neumann 2002,

Brockington et al. 2008). Once included in conservation planning only as

an afterthought, local communities are now major stakeholders. However,

initiatives driven, led, and managed by local leaders, communities, and institutions

to meet the needs of both wildlife and people remain rare. The
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Spotting East African mammals in open savannah from Space

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Kenya, Eastern Africa, Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land
rangelands
Knowledge of population dynamics is essential for managing and conserving wildlife. Traditional methods of counting wild animals such as aerial survey or ground counts not only disturb animals, but also can be labour intensive and costly. New, commercially available very high-resolution satellite images offer great potential for accurate estimates of animal abundance over large open areas. However, little research has been conducted in the area of satellite-aided wildlife census, although computer processing speeds and image analysis algorithms have vastly improved.