dc.contributor.author | . Farah, K.O | |
dc.contributor.author | Nyariki, D.M | |
dc.contributor.author | Noor, A.A | |
dc.contributor.author | Ngugi, R.K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Musimba1, N.K. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-02-26T14:39:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2001 | |
dc.identifier.citation | J. Soc. Sci., 7(4): 267-274 (2001) | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/11863 | |
dc.description.abstract | Northern Kenya, as in other sub-Saharan
arid and semi-arid regions, has faced challenges related
to the prevailing socio-economy, ecology and polity
in the last quarter of last century. In some of these
areas, pastoralists have been settled on the peri-urban
fringes of towns and have been exposed to flood-retreat
cultivation; a culture that has been traditionally
practised by the riverine Bantu communities. From the
late 1960s these pastoralists started irrigation agriculture
with assistance from the government and nongovernmental
organisations. The outcome has been
the mushrooming of irrigation schemes along rivers.
This paper looks at the development of small-scale
irrigation schemes and their sustainability. It also
analyses their socio-economic and ecological effects
on pastoral households and the drylands, taking Garissa
District as a case. Interviews, a questionnaire and
existing literature on irrigation schemes were used to
collect data. Logistic regressions were carried out to
assess the socio-economic effects of irrigation on the
pastoral households. The results show that irrigation
farming plays a supplementary role in pastoral
economies, takes away child labour from pastoralism
and reduces pastoral mobility. The implication is that
irrigation farming in arid areas does not seem to offer
a long-term sustainable economic livelihood. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.subject | Drylands | en |
dc.subject | irrigation farming | en |
dc.subject | pastoralism | en |
dc.subject | Northern Kenya | en |
dc.subject | Sub-Saharan Africa | en |
dc.title | The Socio-economic and Ecological Impacts of Small-scale Irrigation Schemes on Pastoralists and Drylands in Northern Kenya | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
local.publisher | Department of Range Management, University of Nairobi, | en |