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Natural Resources Interventions and Investments for the Lake Victoria Basin
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2006)
The Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project Phase I
The Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project Phase I (LVEMP I) was implemented in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania since July 1997. The Project was executed by ...
Lesson learnt from land use management through Integrated Soil and Water Conservation (ISWC)
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)
River Nyando is one of seven major rivers within the Kenyan side of the Lake Victoria
Drainage Basin. The other six rivers are Sio, Nzoia, Yala, Mara, Sondu-Miriu and Kuja-
Migori. The Nyando and Nzoia rivers have been ...
Ecological Sanitation in the Lake Zone: Awareness Creation and Action
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2004)
The paper expresses the concern on the haphazard over flowing sewage within the unplanned settlements of
the lacustrine communities of Lake Victoria basin and its impact on human health and Lake Biodiversity.
The paper ...
Buffering capacity studies in a rural and an urban wetland in Lake Victoria catchment, Uganda
(1Wetlands Inspection Division, Ministry of Water, Lands and Environment, P. O. Box 9629, Kampala Uganda. 2 Chemistry Department, Makerere University, P. O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda, 2006)
Wetlands are known to filter water from catchments by retaining solid waste and eroded sediments
from catchment areas. They reduce the impact of flooding, speed of flow, and hence store water while
releasing it slowly. ...
Review of the impact of water hyacinth on Lake Victoria: the case of Winam Gulf, Kenya.
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2004)
Water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes, invaded Lake Victoria in 1989 and has had significant social,
economic and environmental impacts, which remain largely unquantified. The biological control
administered by Kenya ...
The convention for the establishment of the Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization
(LVFO, 2001-11)
The Convention for the establishment of the Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization (LVFO) was signed on 30 June 1994, in Kisumu, Kenya by the “Contracting Parties” who consists the three Partner States of the East African ...
Lake Victoria Fisheries Management Plan
(LVFO, 2001-11)
The purpose of developing a Fisheries Management Plan (FMP) is to sustain the livelihoods of the communities who depend on the fishery resources of Lake Victoria, and to reduce poverty, food insecurity and unemployment. ...
Household Welfare Impacts of the Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) in the Kenyan Side of Lake Victoria
(2002)
Lake Victoria is an important source of livelihood for not only Kenyans residing next to it but the rest of East Africa and The Great Nile Valley. Nevertheless, Lake Victoria and therefore the livelihood of fishermen ...
Regional status report on Lake Victoria Frame surveys for 2000, 2002 and 2004: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganga
(LVFO, 2004)
Lake Victoria is very important to the economies of the East African Community
Partner States. The fishery has undergone major transformations since fish
catches increased following establishment of Nile perch (Lates ...
Conservation and improvement of the stocks of the originally most important Lake Victoria tilapiine, Oreochromis esculentus, Graham 1929
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2004)
The tilapiine fish species Oreochromis esculentus was endemic to only lakes Victoria and Kyoga, and
was the most important commercial fish species in these two lakes. This species started to decline
steadily after the ...