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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. ...