Effects of land use practices on livelihoods in the transboundary sub-catchments of the Lake Victoria Basin

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dc.contributor.authorAlbinus, M.P
dc.contributor.authorObando, Makalle, Joy
dc.contributor.authorBamutaze, Yazidhi
dc.date.accessioned2012-11-01T09:22:41Z
dc.date.available2012-11-01T09:22:41Z
dc.date.issued2008-10
dc.descriptionPublisher version (Academic journals) available at www.academicjournals.org/ajest/PDF/.../Albinus%20et%20al.p...en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Lake Victoria Basin (LVB) is experiencing changes in land use due to both anthropogenic and natural drivers which are critical to the sustainability of the resources and livelihoods of the communities. Indeed the resultant land use practices and decisions made by the communities on the use of the land rely on the changes in the basin. This paper presents an analysis of the land use practices in the Lake Victoria Basin using two sub-catchments of Mara River (Tanzania) and Sio River (Kenya-Uganda) as case studies. Collection of mainly socio-economic and environmental data involved in-depth interviews of 679 respondents from the midstream and downstream zones of the subcatchments. The findings reveal conspicuous changes in community livelihoods as a result of expansion of cultivation, overgrazing on the river banks, increased use of wetlands areas, the disappearance and extreme fragmentation of forest, bush land and appearance and the diminishing of settlements. The hitherto common resources have become scarce forcing farmers to try intensifying and diversifying their farm production with little success due to poor traditional farming practices. Although local initiatives are leading to change, there is need for integrated approaches of indigenous knowledge, technical agricultural research, economic analysis, and policy studies and reforms.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSIDA/SARECen_US
dc.identifier.citationAfrican Journal of Environmental Science and Technology Vol. 2 (10). pp. 309-317, October, 2008en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/5910
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAcademic Journalsen_US
dc.subjectLand use practicesen_US
dc.subjectlivelihoodsen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous knowledgeen_US
dc.subjectLake Victoria basinen_US
dc.titleEffects of land use practices on livelihoods in the transboundary sub-catchments of the Lake Victoria Basinen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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