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Enclosures in West Pokot, Kenya - Transforming land, livestock and livelihoods in drylands

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Title Enclosures in West Pokot, Kenya - Transforming land, livestock and livelihoods in drylands
 
Creator Nyberg, Gert
 
Contributor Ostwald, Madelene
Knutsson, Per
Oborn, Ingrid
Otieno, David Jakinda
Mureithi, Stephen
Said, Mohammed
Mwangi, Peter
Grönvall, Antonia
Wernersson, Julia
Svanlund, Sara
Saxer, Laura
Geutjes, Lotje
Karmebäck, Vera
Wairore, John N.
Wambui, Regina
de Leeuw, Jan
Malmer, Anders
Wredle, Ewa
 
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populations and associated pressure on water and land. Based on a combination of social and natural science
methods, we studied a 30-year transformation process from pastoralism to a livestock-based agro-pastoral system
in northwestern Kenya, with the overall aim to increase the understanding of the ongoing transition towards
intensified agro-pastoralist production systems in dryland East Africa.
Key to this transformation was the use of enclosures for land rehabilitation, fodder production, and land and livestock
management. Enclosures have more soil carbon and a higher vegetation cover than adjacent areas with open grazing.
The level of adoption of enclosures as a management tool has been very high, and their use has enabled agricultural
diversification, e.g. increased crop agriculture, poultry production and the inclusion of improved livestock. Following the
use of enclosures, livelihoods have become less dependent on livestock migration, are increasingly directed towards
agribusinesses and present new opportunities and constraints for women. These livelihood changes are closely associated
with, and depend on, an ongoing privatization of land under different tenure regimes.
The results indicate that the observed transformation provides opportunities for a pathway towards a sustainable
livestock-based agro-pastoral system that could be valid in many dryland areas in East Africa. However, we also show that
emergent risks of conflicts and inequalities in relation to land, triggered by the weakening of collective property rights,
pose a threat to the sustainability of this pathway
 
Date 2016-09-20T11:16:27Z
2016-09-20T11:16:27Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier http://pastoralismjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13570-015-0044-7
https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/aS9urRTU
Gert Nyberg, Madelene Ostwald, Per Knutsson, Ingrid Oborn, David Jakinda Otieno, Stephen Mureithi, Mohammed Said, Peter Mwangi, Antonia Grönvall, Julia Wernersson, Sara Svanlund, Laura Saxer, Lotje Geutjes, Vera Karmebäck, John N. Wairore, Regina Wambui, Jan de Leeuw, Anders Malmer, Ewa Wredle. (25/5/2015). Enclosures in West Pokot, Kenya - Transforming land, livestock and livelihoods in drylands. Pastoralism, 25 (5).
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/4925
Open access
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher SpringerOpen
 
Source Pastoralism;25,(2015)