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The Wealth of Lake Victoria Basin

Author : Furaha Ngeregere Lugoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Wealth of Lake Victoria Basin written by Furaha Ngeregere Lugoe and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The land resources in the LVB generate local, national and global benefits that are important for food security and rural livelihoods. However, this large agro-biodiversity is threatened by habitat modification and fragmentation, a reduction in vegetation cover and species diversity and over-exploitation and competition from invasive species, mainly as a consequent of human population growth. The LVB covers about 19400 Km2, shared amongst Tanzania (44%), Kenya (22%), Uganda (16%), Rwanda (11%), and Burundi (7%). It has about 35,000,000 people with a population density of about 300 per km2, which is higher than the national averages of Uganda (235), Burundi (210), Tanzania (190), Kenya (342), and Rwanda (378). The LVB has immense natural resources that include forests, savannah, rangelands, and fisheries which provide livelihood for communities around the basin. The demands to meet the needs of the rapidly increasing population and domestic animals in the form of space, shelter, space, food, water, health services, and waste disposal, puts very high pressure on the resources of the basin (LVBC, 2011). Since the 1970s, Lake Victoria's water quality has declined significantly, mainly due to increased sedimentation, water pollution and eutrophication, caused mainly by poor land use management within the Basin (LVB).

Poverty and Wealth of Fisherfolks in the Lake Victoria Basin of Kenya

Author : Obiero On'gan'ga O.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789966974822
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Wealth of Fisherfolks in the Lake Victoria Basin of Kenya written by Obiero On'gan'ga O. and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lake Victoria

Author : Joseph L. Awange
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540325751
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Lake Victoria written by Joseph L. Awange and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-08-18 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes a pioneering and unique work on Lake Victoria. It is the world’s second largest fresh-water lake and supports the livelihood of more than 30 million people. Surprisingly, there has been no comprehensive book addressing its problems and potentials. Ecology, environmental pollution and resource management are some of the issues addressed by this comprehensive insight into the limitations, challenges and opportunities facing Lake Victoria.

Lake Victoria Monitored from Space

Author : Joseph Awange
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030605515
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Lake Victoria Monitored from Space written by Joseph Awange and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs a suite of remotely sensed products and advanced technologies to provide the first comprehensive space-based sensing of Lake Victoria, the world’s second largest freshwater lake that supports a livelihood of more than 42 million people, modulates regional climate, but faces myriads of challenges. Proper understanding of the lake and changes in its physical dynamics (e.g., water level, shorelines and areal dynamics) resulting from the impacts of climate variation and climate change as well as anthropogenic (e.g., hydropower and irrigation) is important for its management as well as for strategic development before, during and after climate extremes (e.g., floods and droughts) in order to inform policy formulations, planning and mitigation measures. Owing to its sheer size, and lack of research resources commitment by regional governments that hamper its observations, however, it is a daunting task to undertake studies on Lake Victoria relying solely on in-situ “boots on the ground” measurements, which are sparse, missing in most cases, inconsistent or restricted by governmental red tapes. To unlock the potentials of Lake Victoria, this book argues for the removal of obsolete Nile treaties signed between Britain, Egypt and Sudan in the 1920s and 1950s, which prohibits its utilization by the upstream countries. The book is useful to those in water resources management and policy formulations, hydrologists, environmentalists, engineers and researchers. In a unique cross-disciplinary approach, the Book articulates the various climatic impacts and explanations from natural and anthropogenic origins, which affected Lake Victoria and its vicinity, including the drastic increase and depletion of water level in the Lake and dams, floods and droughts, water quality/security, crop health, food security, and economic implications. With no exception as in his many publications, Joseph L. Awange used data analysis methodologies including filtering, adjustment theory, and robust statistics, to quantify the hydrologic and other parameters, and their estimated uncertainties. The Book is recommended for readers from a diverse disciplines, including physical and social sciences, policy, law, engineering, and disaster management. Professor C.K. Shum, Ohio State University.

Lake Victoria Basin Environment Outlook

Author :
Publisher : United Nations Environment Programme
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Lake Victoria Basin Environment Outlook written by and published by United Nations Environment Programme. This book was released on 2006 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Improved Land Management in the Lake Victoria Basin

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Publisher : World Agroforestry Centre
ISBN 13 : 9290591943
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Improved Land Management in the Lake Victoria Basin written by and published by World Agroforestry Centre. This book was released on 2006 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Study of Aquatic Biodiversity in the Lake Victoria Basin

Author : East African Community. Lake Victoria Basin Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book A Study of Aquatic Biodiversity in the Lake Victoria Basin written by East African Community. Lake Victoria Basin Commission and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Engendering Wealth And Well-being

Author : Cathy Rakowski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429980434
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Engendering Wealth And Well-being written by Cathy Rakowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new international division of labor and the imposition of structural adjustment on Third World countries has necessitated a reexamination of development policies and a reevaluation of the role of gender in their success or failure. Although women often bear the heaviest burden under structural adjustment, there is also considerable evidence of women being empowered through their responses to the challenges of economic restructuring. Based on case study material from Eastern Europe, the Islamic nations, Africa, China, and Latin America, this volume explores the significant contributions women make to the wealth and well-being of their families and nations. The contributors argue persuasively that women may hold the key to sustainable development, an increasingly critical issue at a time when policymakers are reconsidering the full costs and benefits of a growth-fixated development model. One of the first to embody the new “gender and development” paradigm, this book reports on research at the frontiers of knowledge and theory about the gendered outcomes of economic transformation, restructuring, and social change. By incorporating “voices from the South,” it makes a provocative addition to our understanding of the political economy of development and of the relationship between world ecology and the world economy.

An Economic History of Kenya

Author : William Robert Ochieng'
Publisher : East African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789966469632
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book An Economic History of Kenya written by William Robert Ochieng' and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nile Waters

Author : Joseph Awange
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030647560
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Nile Waters written by Joseph Awange and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is useful to those in water resources management and policy formulations, hydrologists, environmentalists, engineers and researchers. Exploiting advanced statistical techniques and the latest state-of-the-art multi-mission satellites, surface models and reanalysis products, this book provides the first comprehensive weighing of the changes in the Nile River Basin’s (NRB: ~ 3,400,000 km2 ) stored waters' compartments, surface, soil moisture and groundwater, and their association to climate variability/change and anthropogenic impacts on the one hand. On the other hand, it argues on the need for equitable use of the NRB’s waters by all 11 countries within its basin, and doing away with obsolete Nile treaties that were signed by Britain, Egypt and Sudan, which prohibit the use of the Nile by 8 upstream countries. With Ethiopia’s construction of Africa’s largest dam (GERD; Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam) along the Blue Nile, which is expected to take several years to fill, the Nile is back on the news. Combined with Uganda’s Nalubaale, Kiira and Bujagali dams on the White Nile, these human-induced impacts (i.e., damming), coupled with those of climate variability/change, are expected to exacerbate tension with the low stream countries (Egypt and Sudan) fearing the cut in theNile’s total volume. Furthermore, the Nile river, arguably the world’s longest river (6800 km), impacts on the livelihood of over 300 million people of 11 countries within its basin. This population is expected to double in the next twenty-five years, thereby putting extreme pressure on its water resources. An in-depth analysis of changes in the Nile’s stored waters, therefore, is essential to inform its management and sustainable equitable use. Owing to its sheer size, however, obtaining in-situ data from “boots on the ground” is practically impossible, paving way to the space-based weighing of the Nile River Basin using a suite of high spatio-temporal remotely sensed and reanalysis products, as well as those of hydrological models. “Arguably, the Nile River is the most unique river in the world. It spans extremes of rainfall from being measured by meters to being measured by centimeters, from the humid tropics to the driest of deserts. Yet, thirsty people live throughout this basin and therefore the demands on its water resources are uneven. Knowing the water amounts throughout the entire Nile Basin is a critical step for governments and international treaties to avoid the “Tragedy of the Commons”. Africa can embrace this future through the leadership of Prof. Awange and others like him who have devoted their careers to Africa’s waters” —Doug Alsdorf, Ph.D., Professor of Geophysics at the Ohio State University (USA).

HIV and mobility in the Lake Victoria Basin agricultural sector: A literature review

Author : Scott Drimie, Julia Weinand, Stuart Gillespie, Margaret Wagah
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book HIV and mobility in the Lake Victoria Basin agricultural sector: A literature review written by Scott Drimie, Julia Weinand, Stuart Gillespie, Margaret Wagah and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge History of Africa

Author : J. D. Fage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521228039
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Africa written by J. D. Fage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume VI covers the period 1870-1905, when the European powers divided the continent of Africa into colonial territories.

Food Insecurity & Hydroclimate in Greater Horn of Africa

Author : Joseph Awange
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030910024
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Food Insecurity & Hydroclimate in Greater Horn of Africa written by Joseph Awange and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will benefit users in food security, agriculture, water management, and environmental sectors. It provides the first comprehensive analysis of Greater Horn of Africa (GHA)’s food insecurity and hydroclimate using the state-of-the-art Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and its Follow-on (GRACE-FO)’s, centennial precipitation, hydrological models’ and reanalysis’ products. It is here opined that GHA is endowed with freshwater (surface and groundwater) being home to the world's second largest freshwater body (Lake Victoria) and the greatest continental water towers (Ethiopian Highlands) that if properly tapped in a sustainable way, will support its irrigated agriculture as well as pastoralism. First, however, the obsolete Nile treaties that hamper the use of Lake Victoria (White Nile) and Ethiopian Highland (Blue Nile) have to be unlocked. Moreover, GHA is bedevilled by poor governance and the ``donor-assistance” syndrome; and in 2020-2021 faced the so-called ``triple threats’’ of desert locust infestation, climate variability/change impacts and COVID-19 pandemic. Besides, climate extremes influence its meagre waters leading to perennial food insecurity. Coupled with frequent regional and local conflicts, high population growth rate, low crop yield, invasion of migratory pests, contagious human and livestock diseases (such as HIV/AIDs, COVID-19 & Rift Valley fever) and poverty, life for more than 310 million of its inhabitants simply becomes unbearable. Alarming also is the fact that drought-like humanitarian crises are increasing in GHA despite recent progress in its monitoring and prediction efforts. Notwithstanding these efforts, there remain challenges stemming from uncertainty in its prediction, and the inflexibility and limited buffering capacity of the recurrent impacted systems. To achieve greater food security, therefore, in addition to boosting GHA's agricultural output, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs suggest that its “inhabitants must create more diverse and stable means of livelihood to insulate themselves and their households from external shocks”. This is a task that they acknowledge will not be easy as the path ahead is “strewn with obstacles namely; natural hazards and armed conflicts”. Understanding GHA’s food insecurity and its hydroclimate as presented in this book is a good starting point towards managing the impacts of the natural hazards on the one hand while understanding the impacts associated with extreme climate on GHA's available water and assessing the potential of its surface and groundwater to support its irrigated agriculture and pastoralism would be the first step towards “coping with drought” on the other hand. The book represents a significant effort by Prof Awange in trying to offer a comprehensive overview of the hydroclimate in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA). Prof Eric F. Wood, NAE (USA); FRSC (Canada); Foreign member, ATSE (Australia).

Lake Victoria Fisheries Resources

Author : Yunus D. Mgaya
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319696564
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Lake Victoria Fisheries Resources written by Yunus D. Mgaya and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book synthesises the historical trends of the lake fisheries, the lake ecology, biology and biodiversity, socio-economics, stock assessment, aquaculture, fish quality assurance, environmental quality and management of the fisheries resources. The evolution of fisheries in Lake Victoria has undergone dramatic changes over the last few decades, leading to both ecological and socio-economic consequences. The lake has changed from one dominated by haplochromines in the 1950s, to one currently dominated by Nile perch, ‘dagaa’ (Rastrineobola argentea) and Nile tilapia. These changes have mainly been driven by the introduction of the predatory Nile perch in the lake, eutrophication due to increased human activities in the catchment, increased human population growth, overfishing and changes in the global climate system. This work should therefore be a particularly useful reference to fisheries scientists and managers, potential investors, students and other professionals who may be interested in the Lake Victoria fisheries.

Pulp and Paper Magazine of Canada

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Pulp and Paper Magazine of Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Ecological History of the Lake Victoria Basin ...

Author : Robert Lloyd Kendall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book An Ecological History of the Lake Victoria Basin ... written by Robert Lloyd Kendall and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Soils and Human Health

Author : Eric C. Brevik
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439844542
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Soils and Human Health written by Eric C. Brevik and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the connections between soils and human health, there has not been a great amount of attention focused on this area when compared to many other fields of scientific and medical study. Soils and Human Health brings together authors from diverse fields with an interest in soils and human health, including soil science, geology, geography, biology, and anthropology to investigate this issue from a number of perspectives. The book includes a soil science primer chapter for readers from other fields, and discusses the ways the soil science community can contribute to improving our understanding of soils and human health. Features Discusses ways the soil science community can contribute to the improvement of soil health Approaches human health from a soils-focused perspective, covering the influence of soil conservation and contact with soil on human health Illustrates topics via case studies including arsenic in groundwater in Bangladesh; the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam; heavy metal contamination in Shipham, United Kingdom and Omaha, Nebraska, USA; and electronic waste recycling in China. In a scientific world where the trend has often been ever-increasing specialization and increasingly difficult communication between fields and subfields, the interdisciplinary nature of soils and human health studies presents a significant challenge going forward. Fields with an interest in soils and human health need to have increased cross-disciplinary communication and cooperation. This book is a step in the direction of accessibility and innovation, elucidating the state of knowledge in the meeting of soil and health sciences, and identifying places where more work is needed.