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Author : Mary Omosa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Population Growth, Land Use, and Food Self-sufficiency in Kenya written by Mary Omosa and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elisabeth Simelton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100043916X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Multifunctional Land Uses in Africa (Open Access) written by Elisabeth Simelton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents contemporary case studies of land use, management practices, and innovation in Africa with a view to exploring how multifunctional land uses can alleviate food insecurity and poverty. Food security and livelihoods in Africa face multiple challenges in the form of feeding a growing population on declining land areas under the impacts of climate change. The overall question is what kind of farming systems can provide resilient livelihoods? This volume presents a selection of existing farming systems that demonstrate how more efficient use of land and natural resources, labour and other inputs can have positive effects on household food security and livelihoods. It examines how aquaculture, integrated water management, peri-urban farming systems, climate-smart agriculture practices and parkland agroforestry contribute multiple benefits. Drawing on case studies from Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Burkina Faso, contributed by young African scientists, this book provides a unique perspective on multifunctional land use in Africa and illustrates how non-conventional uses can be profitable while promoting social and environmental sustainability. Tapping into the global discussion on land scarcity and linking food security to existing land use change processes, this volume will stimulate readers looking for diversified land uses that are compatible with both household and national food security ambitions. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of African development, agriculture, food security, land use and environmental management, as well as sustainable development more generally, in addition to policymakers and practitioners working in these areas.
Author : Negatu, Workneh
Publisher : OSSREA
ISBN 13 : 9994455877
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (944 download)
Download or read book Innovations in Achieving Sustainable Food Security in Eastern and Southern Africa written by Negatu, Workneh and published by OSSREA. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These papers address roles and issues related to social and institutional innovations and approaches in food security in Southern and Eastern Africa. They include implementation of food security policy, rural livelihood and agricultural innovation, land consolidation for food security, interdisciplinary school-based health for food security, harnessing indigenous and modern knowledge for food security, household food resource handling for food security, institutions for technological innovation, the role of land tax in food security, trade protectionism and food security, and gender-power relations in food security.
Author : Nadine R. Horenstein
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Women and Food Security in Kenya written by Nadine R. Horenstein and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sabina M. Mukoya-Wangia
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Household Production, Consumption and Food Security Status in Kakamega Region of Kenya written by Sabina M. Mukoya-Wangia and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic development policies worldwide have emphasized efforts to find solutions to food and population problems for developing countries such as Kenya. A natural area of focus for these policies has been rural farms where the population growth rate is high and the economic circumstances of the farm families are sub-standard. Solutions to food farm problems have included the development of technologies to improve food output. This study assessed total food production, availability and security among farm households in the Kakamega region of Kenya. Food security was defined as the difference between the available and required food per adult equivalent. The study was based on four agro-ecological zones (LM1, LM2, UM1, and UM4) in the area. The study answered the following questions for the 1995/96 crop year: (1) What is the resource base of farm households in Kakamega region? (2) How do livestock numbers influence food security? (3) What is the level of food security of farm households in the Kakamega region of Kenya? (4) How does off-farm employment and income influence food security? Food consumed was measured in Kilocalories and was used to assess adequacy and availability to households in different farm systems. The number of persons in a household was based on adult equivalents and was used to estimate the household food requirements and labor availability. Household food supply was from farm produced crops and livestock, and market purchases. Farm income was generated from sales of crops and livestock plus income from leasing land while off-farm income was from wages, trade and donations. The results show that farmers in low middlelands (LM1) and upper middlelands (UM1) had limited production resources, as a result, they were food insecure. Farmers who had livestock were more food secure than those without. Households in LM2 and UM4 had sufficient food from farm production, supplemented with purchases. Over sixty percent of total household income was from off-farm wages and was highest in the UM4 zone. Households in all the zones supplemented food production with purchases using income generated from on and off farm activities. The results of the food production and security models show that agro-ecological zones, total land size, number of cattle, permanent off-farm employment, and total labor used for farming were positive and statistically significant in influencing household food consumption and security. The general conclusion from the research is that efforts to reduce food insecurity require that households' total farm systems must be considered with any proposed interventions. Enterprise diversification of farm food production and off-farm employment enhanced food security. Addressing household poverty concerns from a single commodity approach will likely have limited success for enhanced food security. Policies that would intensify food production and improve off-farm employment would enhance food security in the Kakamega region of Kenya.
Author : Ephraim Nkonya
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319191683
Total Pages : 695 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development written by Ephraim Nkonya and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Land, Food, and People written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1984 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 3 folded maps.
Author : Rattan Lal
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319093606
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Intensification to Advance Food Security and Enhance Climate Resilience in Africa written by Rattan Lal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 32-chapter volume represents the core of several oral and poster presentations made at the conference. In addition to Introduction and Conclusion sections, the book is thematically divided into 7 sections, namely, 1) Land Use and Farming Systems, 2) Effects of Climate Change on Crop Yield, 3) Soil Nutrient and Water Management for Carbon Sequestration, 4) Rehabilitation of Degraded Lands through Forestry and Agroforestry, 5) Management of Animal Production for Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 6) Smallholder Adaptation to Climate Change, and 7) Economic, Social and Policy Issues. It addresses these themes in the context of sustainable intensification (SI). It implies increasing agronomic production from the existing land while improving/restoring its quality and decreasing the C or environmental footprint. Simply put, SI means producing more from less.
Author : Brian C. O'Neill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521018029
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Population and Climate Change written by Brian C. O'Neill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Population and Climate Change provides the first systematic in-depth treatment of links between two major themes of the 21st century: population growth (and associated demographic trends such as aging) and climate change. It is written by a multidisciplinary team of authors from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis who integrate both natural science and social science perspectives in a way that is comprehensible to members of both communities. The book will be of primary interest to researchers in the fields of climate change, demography, and economics. It will also be useful to policy-makers and NGOs dealing with issues of population dynamics and climate change, and to teachers and students in courses such as environmental studies, demography, climatology, economics, earth systems science, and international relations.
Author : John Aluko Orodho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Population Growth, Gender, and Food Production in Kenya written by John Aluko Orodho and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G. C. Mkangi
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483286029
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The Social Cost of Small Families & Land Reform written by G. C. Mkangi and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A convincing argument against the widespread belief that rapid population growth is an obstacle to socio-economic development, while individual land ownership is a prerequisite. The author presents an in-depth study of traditional land tenure in Taita, Kenya, where the implementation of birth control programmes and the individualization of land tenure have failed to eradicate rural poverty and have brought about other sociopsychological problems. This book is of vital importance to development personnel to help them place the problem of population growth in its proper perspective.
Author : Laban O. Masimba
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Self-sufficiency Versus Export Crop Strategies written by Laban O. Masimba and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol A. Singer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Population Growth and Food Supply written by Carol A. Singer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9251305722
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (513 download)
Download or read book The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018 written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New evidence this year corroborates the rise in world hunger observed in this report last year, sending a warning that more action is needed if we aspire to end world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. Updated estimates show the number of people who suffer from hunger has been growing over the past three years, returning to prevailing levels from almost a decade ago. Although progress continues to be made in reducing child stunting, over 22 percent of children under five years of age are still affected. Other forms of malnutrition are also growing: adult obesity continues to increase in countries irrespective of their income levels, and many countries are coping with multiple forms of malnutrition at the same time – overweight and obesity, as well as anaemia in women, and child stunting and wasting.
Author : Eric Momanyi
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783659117343
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Dynamics of Poverty Traps in Kenya written by Eric Momanyi and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural poverty is estimated to account for 63% of poverty worldwide. Land has been identified as a key productive asset in the hands of the rural poor. Through this land, the poor are able to produce food for their growing population and sell the surplus to invest in productive assets. The research in this book built a System Dynamics model to track the dynamic linkages between changes in population, food available and land-holding, and its impact on poverty traps in rural Kenya. The model was fitted with Kenyan population data from 1980 to 2005 and rural poverty headcount data for Kenya over the same period. Parameter values were estimated from several assorted publications. The model was used to test the dynamic policy implications of changing land productivity and wage rates on population and food production trends in the analysis of poverty traps in rural settings.
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Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Agriculture, Food and Nutrition for Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Axumite G. Egziabher
Publisher : IDRC
ISBN 13 : 1552501094
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (525 download)
Download or read book Cities Feeding People written by Axumite G. Egziabher and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities Feeding People examines urban agriculture in East Africa and proves that it is a safe, clean, and secure method to feed the world's struggling urban residents. It also collapses the myth that urban agriculture is practiced only by the poor and unemployed. Cities Feeding People provides the hard facts needed to convince governments that urban agriculture should have a larger role in feeding the urban population.
