Featured image: Production risk due to lack of rainfall in Marsabit District
Now available for free downloads: digitized copies of the 22 reports (3 volumes) comprising the Range Management Handbook of Kenya.
For information on rangeland resources, climatology, livestock diseases, constraints facing range development, and much more, go to the sidebar and click on Range Management Handbook of Kenya. Alternatively, click on storiesofeastafrica.com/range-management-handbook-of-kenya/
Some examples of newly available reports / maps appear below.
District-wide maps provide inventories of natural resources and their ecological status
Environmental degradation is ongoing in the rangelands of East Africa. This guide shows how to identify and monitor soil erosion in arid and semi-arid lands.
Camels, which typify arid rangelands, have, in recent years, also become a presence in semi-arid rangelands. See this report for tips on how to manage them.