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Tana Delta Irrigation Project, Kenya: An Environmental Assessment

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TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................III<br />

Botanical/Ecological Study............................................................................................iv<br />

SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT .......................................................................................3<br />

Summary ..........................................................................................................................4<br />

Introduction......................................................................................................................4<br />

Study Area Description ...................................................................................................5<br />

Methodology ....................................................................................................................5<br />

Results .............................................................................................................................6<br />

Community Livelihood Strategies..................................................................................6<br />

Basic demographics....................................................................................................6<br />

Occupational structure ................................................................................................6<br />

Seasonal Calendar......................................................................................................7<br />

Market Linkages and Investment Vehicles ..................................................................9<br />

Coping strategies ........................................................................................................9<br />

Livelihood Vulnerability and Constraints <strong>Assessment</strong> ..............................................10<br />

Vulnerability...............................................................................................................10<br />

Constraints to livelihoods and development ..............................................................12<br />

Implications & Conclusions .......................................................................................12<br />

Institutional Linkages....................................................................................................14<br />

Primary linkages........................................................................................................14<br />

Relationship with TARDA ..........................................................................................14<br />

Other institutional relationships .................................................................................15<br />

Implications & Conclusions .......................................................................................16<br />

Natural Resources: key resource patterns, changes & challenges...........................16<br />

Water ........................................................................................................................16<br />

Land..........................................................................................................................17<br />

Forests ......................................................................................................................17<br />

Table 10: Household forest costs, levels and trends..................................................20<br />

Conclusions...................................................................................................................24<br />

A. Livelihood strategies, vulnerability and constraints ...............................................24<br />

B. The forest resource..............................................................................................25<br />

C. Institutional linkages .............................................................................................26<br />

Recommendations ........................................................................................................26<br />

Acknowledgements.......................................................................................................27<br />

References .....................................................................................................................27<br />

BOTANICAL/ECOLOGICAL STUDY ....................................................................................31<br />

Summary ........................................................................................................................32<br />

Introduction....................................................................................................................32<br />

Methodology ..................................................................................................................32<br />

Results ...........................................................................................................................33<br />

Forest classification and affinities..............................................................................33<br />

Species diversity .......................................................................................................34<br />

Growth Forms ...........................................................................................................34<br />

Species of Conservation Concern .............................................................................34<br />

Exotics ......................................................................................................................35<br />

Utilisation ..................................................................................................................35<br />

Woodlots ...................................................................................................................36<br />

Carbon Study ............................................................................................................36<br />

Discussion .....................................................................................................................36<br />

Recommendations ........................................................................................................40<br />

Awareness ................................................................................................................40<br />

Nurseries...................................................................................................................40<br />

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