Knowledge Resource Center for Ecological Environment in Arid Area
DOI | 10.1002/ldr.2341 |
Benefits Derived from Rehabilitating a Degraded Semi-Arid Rangeland in Communal Enclosures, Kenya | |
Mureithi, Stephen M.1,2; Verdoodt, Ann1,3; Njoka, Jesse T.2; Gachene, Charles K. K.2; Van Ranst, Eric1 | |
通讯作者 | Mureithi, Stephen M. |
来源期刊 | LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT
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ISSN | 1085-3278 |
EISSN | 1099-145X |
出版年 | 2016 |
卷号 | 27期号:8页码:1853-1862 |
英文摘要 | Combating land degradation in the semi-arid rangeland of sub-Saharan Africa is essential to ensure the long-term productivity of these environments. In the Lake Baringo basin in Kenya, communities and individual farmers restored indigenous vegetation inside enclosures in an effort to combat severe land degradation and address their livelihood problems. This study quantified the benefits of rangeland rehabilitation using yearly communal enclosures’ utilisation data compiled by Rehabilitation of Arid Environments (RAE) Trust over a 6-year period (2005-2010). Results showed that communal enclosures provide a source of income through the sale of fattened livestock, harvested grass seeds, hay, honey and charcoal, among other products. Regression analysis showed an increasing total enclosure income with time. The enclosures also provide grasses for thatching, livestock feed and dry season grazing. Indirect products like milk, blood and meat are essential for household nutrition and food security. These benefits reinforce the management through incentive to maintain existing enclosures and establish new ones and therefore the increasing trend in rangeland enclosure. Increased soil and biomass carbon storage could come with other indirect environmental benefits including improvement in soil quality, land productivity for pasture production and food security, and prevention of land degradation, thus leading to economic, environmental and social benefit for the local agropastoralist communities. Copyright (c) 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
英文关键词 | environmental services Kenya land management pastoral livelihoods reseeding semi-arid rangeland |
类型 | Article ; Proceedings Paper |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Belgium ; Kenya |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI ; CPCI-S |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000387375900009 |
WOS关键词 | MANAGEMENT |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Soil Science |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Agriculture |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/194947 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Ghent, Dept Geol & Soil Sci WE13, Lab Soil Sci, Krijgslaan 281-S8, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium; 2.Univ Nairobi, Dept Land Resources Management & Agr Technol, POB 29053, Nairobi 00625, Kenya; 3.Univ Ghent, Dept Soil Management BW12, Res Unit Soil Degradat & Conservat, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Mureithi, Stephen M.,Verdoodt, Ann,Njoka, Jesse T.,et al. Benefits Derived from Rehabilitating a Degraded Semi-Arid Rangeland in Communal Enclosures, Kenya[J],2016,27(8):1853-1862. |
APA | Mureithi, Stephen M.,Verdoodt, Ann,Njoka, Jesse T.,Gachene, Charles K. K.,&Van Ranst, Eric.(2016).Benefits Derived from Rehabilitating a Degraded Semi-Arid Rangeland in Communal Enclosures, Kenya.LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT,27(8),1853-1862. |
MLA | Mureithi, Stephen M.,et al."Benefits Derived from Rehabilitating a Degraded Semi-Arid Rangeland in Communal Enclosures, Kenya".LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT 27.8(2016):1853-1862. |
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