Tana Delta Irrigation Project, Kenya: An Environmental Assessment
Tana Delta Irrigation Project, Kenya: An Environmental Assessment
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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