Over 42 million people rely on Lake Victoria as their primary source of food, employment,
and clean drinking water. The lake's fisheries have produced around one million tonnes in …

Processes of agricultural expansion and retreat have provoked an emerging global debate
and driven more focused research, due to its socio-environmental consequences. This …

Abstract Land change in Kigali, Rwanda, is examined using Intensity Analysis, which
measures the temporal stationarity of changes among categories. Maps for 1981, 2002 and …

Anthropogenic activities have substantially changed natural landscapes, especially in
regions which are extremely affected by population growth and climate change such as East …

Assessing land use and land cover (LULC) change in Lake Ziway watershed is important to
evaluate the degradation of ecosystems and their environmental processes caused by the …

There have been rapid population and accelerating urban growth with associated changes
in land use and soil degradation in northeast China, an important grain-producing region …

The Lake Victoria Basin (LVB) is a significant resource for five states within East Africa,
which faces major land use land cover changes that threaten ecosystem integrity and …

Water basins characterise both physical and social environmental aspects such as land
tenure. As such, the basins extend beyond spatial units of physical resources and human …

Land change was assessed in the Albertine rift region (ARR) using its central section of
north-western Rwanda as case study. This region is one of Africa's most ecologically …

This study integrated local and scientific knowledge to assess the impacts of climate change
and variability on food security in West Pokot County, Kenya from 1980–2012. It …