Kenya
Over the last decade the Kenyan economy has declined as demonstrated by GDP growth rates. Interest rates have fallen, exchange rates remained stable and inflation held down, while private sector investment and employment has grown. Overall, this gives a positive picture of economic growth prospects. When we look more closely at this encouraging economic picture, there are also however causes...
Years of destruction of ecosystems and natural areas especially forests have led to biodiversity loss in Kenya causing many problems related to reduced supply of environmental services like water and hydro electricity in the country. The height of these destructive activities was the 1990s when encroachment into water catchment areas by communities surrounding them, illegal and politically...
The project “Integrating Wetland Economic Values into River Basin Management” has the overall goal of more equitable, efficient and sustainable wetland and river basin management resulting from the practical application of environmental economics techniques and measures.
To help to achieve this goal, its immediate objectives are:
- To...
In sub-Saharan Africa mobile pastoralism is predominantly practised in arid and semi-arid lands. These lands are hot and dry, with low and erratic rainfall. There are not many livelihoods suited to this unpredictable environment, but pastoralism is particularly appropriate, because it enables people to adapt by moving livestock according to the shifting availability of water and pasture.
...The Panos Oral Testimony Mountains Project included Peru, Mexico, Lesotho, Kenya, Ethiopia, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Poland. In each country, the Oral Testimony Programme (OTP) trained local interviewers and with partners, coordinated the collection of testimonies (usually 30-40).
The Kakamega Forest lies 150 kilometres west of the Rift Valley in Kenya at an altitude of 1600 metres. It is the only surviving rain forest in Kenya and the eastern-most fragment of the Guinea-Congolian rainforest, which once stretched from Kenya across Uganda, Central Africa, and the West African Coast. Covering an area of 230 square kilometres, the forest is home to a considerable variety...
Local Voices Global Choices is an interagency initiative supported by Action aid, British Red Cross, Christian Aid, Global Network of CSOs for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), International federation of the Red Cross, Oxfam, Practical Action, ProVention Consortium, Save the Children, and Tearfund.This report contains a number of case studies from around the world, which highlight what can be...
The town of Nakuru — Kenya’s fourth largest town — lies in a unique setting in the Great Rift Valley. Recent developments on the Menengai Crater, the Mau Escarpment, and the Bahati Highlands exemplify the impacts of poorly planned urban growth on mountain ecosystems. The Nakuru Local Urban Observatory (LUO) project was initiated by the Municipal Council of Nakuru in January...
The introduction of Participatory Forestry Management (PFM) in Kenya from 1997 has led to the formation of community-based organizations which have come to be referred to as Community Forest Associations (CFAs). Most of the CFAs are preparing to enter into forest management agreements with the Kenya Forest Service (KFS). This will confer management roles to the community with the KFS retaining...
The publication presents nine examples of successful projects, plus lessons on policy changes and approaches to scale up sustainable agriculture approaches in Kenya and Tanzania.
The yields on many farms in Kenya and Tanzania have declined. The reasons for this are manifold: the soil fertility is falling because of monocropping with maize and other staples; farmers are no longer...
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