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Potential strategies to address fishers problems in Lake Victoria, Tanzania
(2005)Local fishing communities riparian to Lake Victoria in Tanzania have since time immemorial exploited and highly depended on the fisheries of the lake. However their living conditions have been deteriorating despite an ... -
Water quality and ecosystem status
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)The Winam Gulf’s aquatic environment (Figure 1) represents a considerable part of the economic potential of the country, e.g. with regard to fisheries and navigation. However, the use, the management and the preservation ... -
Tanzania National Water Quality Synthesis Report
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)The Water quality and Ecosystem Management Component of the Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) in Tanzania for the past five years have made a considerable progress towards understanding Lake Victoria ... -
Lessons learnt on community participation final report
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)The study was commissioned by Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) and was conducted from June to July 2005. The main purpose of the study was to generate a comprehensive and analytical report on Lessons ... -
Lessons learnt in capacity building
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)Lake Victoria and the overall Lake Basin (LB) is an ecoregion of local, national, regional and global importance. It supports the livelihoods of one third of the populations of the riparian countries and it can be a ... -
Lessons learnt on catchment afforestation component of the Lake Victoria environmental management project
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)Lake Victoria is a shared water body by the three riparian countries of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The lake covers a surface area of 68 800 km2 and catchment area of 184 000 km2 and supports approximately 30 million people. ... -
Water quality and ecosystem status
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)The Water quality and Ecosystem Management Components of the Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) in the three riparian countries (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) have made considerable progress towards ... -
Regional Lessons Learnt Draft Final Report
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)Lake Victoria Basin is rich with current value placed at about US$ 12.4 billion and which could be developed further with good management intervention. There are many factors that are threatening rich biodiversity and ... -
Biological control and monitoring of water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes, Marts. Solms-Laubach (Liliales: Ponteridiaceae) during the post-resurgence period in Lake Victoria basin, Kenya
(Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, LVEMP Water Hyacinth Control Component National Fibre Research Centre, Kibos, P O Box 1490, Kisumu, Kenya, 2005)The paper presents recent results from an ongoing classical biological control programme for water hyacinth, implemented by Kenya Agricultural Research Institute under the Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project. ... -
Potential of fungal pathogens for biological control of water hyacinth
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)A survey of fungal pathogens of water hyacinth were under taken in lakes Victoria and Kyoga and River Nile in Uganda and several potential isolates including Alternaria eichhorniae (Nag Raj and Ponnappa), Cercospora sp. ... -
Soil and nutrient losses from major agricultural land-use practices in the Lake Victoria basin
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)Soil degradation by water erosion is recognized to be a major agricultural and environmental problem in the Lake Victoria crescent. The objective of this study was to quantify runoff, soil and nutrient losses from major ... -
The potential of mukene (Rastrineobola argentea) fishery in Lake Victoria with suggestions for its management
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)Following the decline in catches of endemic fish species in Lake Victoria, Mukene, Rastrineobola argentea has become an important commercial fish species. The fishery spread first through Kenyan, and Tanzanian waters and ... -
The role of reproductive strategies in recovery and success of selected fish species of Lake Victoria,Tanzania
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)selection of mates, parental care, environmental conditions, clutch size, gonadal maturation and genetic differences in fitness. The present study which started in 1997 investigated factors which favour the reproduction ... -
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 ... -
Status report on Lake Victoria frame surveys for 2000, 2002 and 2004-Tanzania
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)This is a report of the third simultaneous Frame Survey conducted on Lake Victoria on 27 - 30th April 2004. The survey was carried out simultaneously between the three partner states sharing Lake Victoria. It involved a ... -
Status report on Lake Victoria frame surveys for 2000, 2002 and 2004-Kenya
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)Lake Victoria Frame Survey is a major activity under Statistical data collection systems of Fisheries Management Component of Lake Victoria Environment Management Program (LVEMP). It plays a vital role in the management ... -
Regional Status Report on Lake Victoria Frame Surveys For 2000, 2002 and 2004, Kenya, Tanzania And Uganda
(2005)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 ... -
Status report on Lake Victoria frame surveys for 2000, 2002 and 2004-Uganda
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)Lake Victoria is economically very important to the East African Partner States. The fishery has undergone major transformations since fish catches increased following establishment of Nile perch (Lates niloticus) and ... -
National lessons learnt consultancy on wetlands component activities
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)This report presents a critical review of activities carried out by LVEMP Wetlands Component in the last seven years of the project with a view of coming up with lessons learnt form interventions implemented in the entire ... -
LIST OF LVEMP SUPPORTED STUDIES AT MOI UNIVERSITY
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)