Evaluating the impact of agricultural transition in the Turkana community of northern Kenya.
Transition from nomadism to sedentary or semi sedentary lifestyle is one of the aspects that is currently trending among many nomadic communities in Kenya. This is caused by various aspects such as climate change that no longer allows the community members to have large stocks of livestock for their livelihoods. Due to lack of rains and persistent droughts, many animals have died while a large population of the people has also been imposed to deaths due to hunger and malnutrition. The conditions are worsening year after year due to the degrading environments, which causes water scarcity, drying of pastures, and rangelands, which is becoming a threat to these nomadic communities. The communities in the arid and semi-arid areas are vulnerable and Turkana County is in the most vulnerable areas in the country. Located in the harsh arid region of northern Kenya, the Turkana people face extreme hunger and malnourishment as frequent drought brings crippling food shortages. Turkana has a population of 855 399 of whom 60 % are nomadic pastoralists, 20 % are agro-pastoralists, 12 % are fishermen and the remaining 8 % live in urban areas. Due to the need for alternative sources of livelihoods to improve the way of life at the county level, there has been investment in other activities, which include agricultural crop production. Several organizations are involved in training local pastoralists in crop production techniques as a way of life. This has created a transition where some of the community members have adopted a semi-sedentary lifestyle to concentrate on crop farming while the rest of the nomadic percentage continues with animal rearing. The government, through the ministry of Agriculture is promoting this transition through establishment of irrigation schemes in most parts of the county where agricultural crop production is practiced. Alongside these efforts are also non-governmental organizations such as World Food Relief, Furrows In The Desert Program, Child Fund Kenya, and Kenya Red Cross Society among others. All of them have a similar objective, promoting food security and alternative source of livelihood for the Turkana nomadic community. This work seeks out to evaluate the impact of agriculture in the nomadic Turkana community of Northern.
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| Format: | info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Universidad EARTH
2017-12
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| Subjects: | AGRICULTURA DE TRANSICION, AGRICULTURA (PRACTICA), SEGURIDAD ALIMENTARIA, NOMADISMO, KENIA, https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#4.01.08, |
| Online Access: | https://repositorio.earth.ac.cr/handle/UEARTH/474 |
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| Summary: | Transition from nomadism to sedentary or semi sedentary lifestyle is one of the aspects that is currently trending among many nomadic communities in Kenya. This is caused by various aspects such as climate change that no longer allows the community members to have large stocks of livestock for their livelihoods. Due to lack of rains and persistent droughts, many animals have died while a large population of the people has also been imposed to deaths due to hunger and malnutrition. The conditions are worsening year after year due to the degrading environments, which causes water scarcity, drying of pastures, and rangelands, which is becoming a threat to these nomadic communities. The communities in the arid and semi-arid areas are vulnerable and Turkana County is in the most vulnerable areas in the country. Located in the harsh arid region of northern Kenya, the Turkana people face extreme hunger and malnourishment as frequent drought brings crippling food shortages. Turkana has a population of 855 399 of whom 60 % are nomadic pastoralists, 20 % are agro-pastoralists, 12 % are fishermen and the remaining 8 % live in urban areas. Due to the need for alternative sources of livelihoods to improve the way of life at the county level, there has been investment in other activities, which include agricultural crop production. Several organizations are involved in training local pastoralists in crop production techniques as a way of life. This has created a transition where some of the community members have adopted a semi-sedentary lifestyle to concentrate on crop farming while the rest of the nomadic percentage continues with animal rearing. The government, through the ministry of Agriculture is promoting this transition through establishment of irrigation schemes in most parts of the county where agricultural crop production is practiced. Alongside these efforts are also non-governmental organizations such as World Food Relief, Furrows In The Desert Program, Child Fund Kenya, and Kenya Red Cross Society among others. All of them have a similar objective, promoting food security and alternative source of livelihood for the Turkana nomadic community. This work seeks out to evaluate the impact of agriculture in the nomadic Turkana community of Northern. |
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