Browsing Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project Phase I (LVEMP I) by Title

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    • The Impact of Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia Crassipes) on the Productivity, Profitability and Species Composition of the Lake Victoria fishery, Kenya 

      Wawire, Noah WO (School of Environmental Studies (Economics), 2003)
      One of the sectors gravely hampered by water hyacinth (WH) on L. Victoria (Kenya) is the fishery sector. This has prompted the need to develop an approach for modeling impacts of WH on fish production. The main objective ...

    • Impact of water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms-Laubach, on the fishery of Lake Victoria, Kenya 

      Njiru, M; Othina, AN; Wakwabi, E (Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2004)
      Due to heavy infestation of water hyacinth in Lake Victoria catches of Clarias gariepinus (Burchell) and Protopterus aethiopicus (Heckel), which strongly decreased in the 1980s, increased markedly in 1998. Tilapia catches ...

    • The importance of Nyando river wetlands plant resources and agricultural products: A comparative study of papyrus and rice 

      Omollow, Maurice Omondi (2003)
      This study assessed the community perceptions of the importance of wetland plants, particularly papyrus (Cyperus papyrus) and compared it with that of agricultural products, mainly rice (Oryza Sativa), in the Nyando River ...

    • Indigenous knowledge and Baseline Data survey on Fish Breeding areas and seasons in Lake Victoria – Kenya 

      Manyala, JO; Bolo, JZ; Onyango, S; Rambiri, PO (Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2001)
      Available baseline data and indigenous knowledge on Lake Victoria fisheries were used to identify potential fish breeding areas and seasons for subsequent scientific verification, demarcation and closure. River mouths, ...

    • Integrated Soil and Water Conservation (ISWC) final report on lessons learnt 

      Liwenga, ET (Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)
      Introduction The Lake Victoria Basin represents a good scenario of environmental problems related to human activities on land. Land degradation in the lake basin is of major concern, not only for the healthy of the lake, ...

    • Investigation of bacteriological quality of smoked fish 

      Ogwan’g, Vincent Odhiambo; Mucai, Muchiri; Patel, Thakor (Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2004)
      The project examined the bacteriological quality of smoked Lates niloticus (L) and tilapiine fishes. A total of 45 tilapiine fishes and 44 Lates niloticus specimens were analysed. Counts of Escherichia coli (E), Salmonella ...

    • Knowledge and experiences gained from managing Lake Victoria ecosystem 

      Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) 2004 (Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2014)
      Lake Victoria is considered one of the most important shared natural resource of Eastern Africa. The Lake Basin supports about 30 million people one million of whom are employed formally or informally in fish related ...

    • LAKE VICTORIA WATER LEVELS 

      Okungu, JO; Okonga, JR; Mngodo, RJ; Sangale, FD; Senfuma, N; Mjengera, H; Sewagude, S; Mwembembezi, L (Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2006)
      One of the principal objectives of the Water Quality and Ecosystem Management Components is to find the reasons for the changes observed in the lake water quality, quantity and ecosystem, and to suggest remedial measures. ...

    • Land use and land cover mapping of the Simiyu catchment (Tanzania) using remote sensing techniques 

      Rwetabula, Justus; Florimond, De Smedt (Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)
      A process of integrating remote sensing techniques and field data to accurately map landuse and land cover of the Simiyu catchment is described. Satellite images of LANDSAT 7 ETM+ of 3/4/2001 and 12/5/2001 were processed ...

    • Lesson learnt from land use management through Integrated Soil and Water Conservation (ISWC) 

      Biamah, Elijah K (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 ...

    • Lessons learned on micro-projects 

      Nyirabu, Mohabe (Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)
      As part of the effort to take stock of its work in implementing micro projects, consider future direction and envisage action to be undertaken, LVEMP engaged a National Consultant from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences ...

    • Lessons learnt in capacity building 

      Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) (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 

      Chamshama, SAO (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. ...

    • Lessons learnt on community participation final report 

      Kessy, Flora (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: water hyacinyh control component 

      Sibuga, KP (Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)
      The Water Hyacinth Control Component (WHCC) is one of the 10 components of LVEMP. The overrall goal of the components‟ focus is to control water hyacinth by reducing the weed to a manageable level. The approach chosen was ...

    • LIST OF LVEMP SUPPORTED STUDIES AT MOI UNIVERSITY 

      Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) (Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)

    • THE LVEMP COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION STRATEGY 

      Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) (2004)
      Since its inception in 1997, the Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) has made several efforts to integrate community participation across all project components. Success in implementation of community ...

    • Mara River Basin Transboundary Integrated Water Resources Management and Development Project Mara River Basin Monograph 

      Water Resources and Energy Management (WREM) International Inc (2008)
      The Mara River Basin is shared between Kenya and Tanzania and covers seven districts: Nakuru, Bomet, Narok, Transmara, Serengeti, Tarime, and Musoma Rural. The river has a catchment area of about 13,750 km2, with an upper ...

    • The medicinal plants and their species diversity in Lake Victoria Basin 

      Manohar, Shyam (Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2004)
      The management of medicinal plants has become a matter of international concern because these plants are generally wild in distribution and very few species are cultivated or planted. Presently, almost every Aayurvedic ...

    • National lessons learnt consultancy on wetlands component activities 

      Raburu, Phillip (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 ...