Theme: Land Use and Land-use Change

The Role Of Environmental Conservation Strategy In Promoting Sustainable Tourism Development In Communal Group Ranches In Laikipia County, Kenya

International Journal Of Research And Innovation In Social Science (IJRISS)

Cosmas Munyao Nzomo, Dr. Bitok Kipkosgei, Dr. Sisinio Kiria Muthengi

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Land Use and Land-use Change, Laikipia County, Tourism and Wildlife
Year: 2025

Drivers Of Land Use, Land Cover Change, Climate Change Vulnerability And Adaptation Options In Narok North Sub-County, Kenya

IOSR Journal of Environmental Science Toxicology and Food Technology (IOSR-JESTFT)

Deborah Kodonyo, Paul Njogu, Erastus Gatebe

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Narok County, Land Use and Land-use Change, Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Resilience
Year: 2025

Conflicting Injustices In Decolonization And Indigenous Land Rights: The Case Of The Lake Turkana Wind Power Project

Elsevier

Jacobo Ramirez, Eleonora Costantino, Christiane Durach, Jury Flickenschild, Han Chen Sun, Ikal Ang?elei, Paul Lekapana

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Climate Justice, Wind Energy, Turkana County, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2025

Harmony In Action For Land Restoration: Linking Social Protection, Financial Inclusion And Disaster Risk Finance

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

Fabian Rackelmann, Sophie van der Heijden, Mariam Parekhelashvili, Architesh Panda, Diana Miriam Pineda Fernandez, Philip Bananayo, Simone Sandholz, Soenke Kreft, Yvonne Walz, Barron Joseph Orr

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Adaptation and Resilience, Disaster Risk and Reduction, Development Finance, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2024

Nature Based Solutions ? Soil Carbon Markets

Friends of the Earth International (FOEI)

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Carbon Markets, Climate-Smart Agriculture, Africa, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2023

Mapping Wetlands Of Kenya Using Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS GIS) With Remote Sensing Data

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

Polina Lemenkova

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Earth Data, Biodiversity and Ecosystems, East Africa, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2023

Adapting to Climate Change in the Semi-Arid Northern Kenya

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science

Abdullahi Musa, Amina A. Maalim, Dominic Kioko, Julius M. Huho, Rashid Warsame

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Adaptation and Resilience, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2023

Breaking Ground: A Facilitator's Manual to Community Dialogues on Gender and Land Restoration.

World Agroforestry Centre

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Community-Based Adaptation, Land Use and Land-use Change, Women Gender and Youth
Year: 2023

Illegal Deforestation For Forest-Risk Agricultural Commodities Dashboard: Kenya

Forest Trends

Cassie Dummett, Sofia Tenorio Fenton

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Climate Change Impacts, Forestry and Natural Resources, Land Use and Land-use Change, Livestock
Year: 2023

LandMark

World Resources Institute

Type: Databases and Platforms
Theme/Sector: Land Use and Land-use Change, Open Data
Year: 2023

Conservation Of Terrestrial Flora And Fauna In Rachuonyo South Sub-County, Kenya: Situational Analysis Of Vegetation Clearance

IOSR Journal of Environmental Science Toxicology and Food Technology

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL), Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Land Use and Land-use Change, Fuelwood and Charcoal
Year: 2023

Regreening Africa Final Report

World Agroforestry Centre

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Adaptation and Resilience, Land Use and Land-use Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Africa
Year: 2023

How SEA Facilitates Planning, Collaboration And Decision Making

Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment (NCEA)

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: , Land Use and Land-use Change, Tana River County, Governance
Year: 2023

Push-pull technology enhances resilience to climate change and prevents land degradation: Perceptions of adopters in western Kenya

Elsevier

Charles Aura Odhiambo Midega, Peter Njoroge Mwangi, Pierre Celestin Ndayisaba, Shem Kuyah, Zeyaur Rahman Khan

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Climate Change Impacts, Food Security, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2023

Mapping deforestation and recovery of tropical montane forests of East Africa

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Ce Zhang, Gabriel Yesuf, Mariana C. Rufino, Sadadi Ojoatre

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: East Africa, Forestry and Natural Resources, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2023

Prosperous Land,Prosperous People: Scaling finance for Nature-based Solutions in Kenya

Climate Focus, Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU)

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Agriculture and Food Systems, Land Use and Land-use Change, Nature-Based Solutions
Year: 2022

Land Use,Land Rights,and Climate Adaptation and Resilience: The Case of Vulnerable Groups in Kenya and Tanzania

Power Shift Africa

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Adaptation and Resilience, Land Use and Land-use Change, East Africa
Year: 2022

Measuring Soil Quality Indicators under Different Climate-Smart Land Uses across East African Climate-Smart Villages

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)

Andrew M. Sila, Dawit Solomon, Gebermedihin Ambaw, John Walker Recha, Kennedy O. Olale, Maren Radeny

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Climate Change Impacts, East Africa, Agriculture and Food Systems, Land Use and Land-use Change, Soils
Year: 2022

Gender Transformative Approaches for Land Restoration: Lessons Learnt from a Multi-stakeholder Co-design Process in Makueni County,Kenya

World Agroforestry Centre

A.M. Paez Valencia, C. Magaju, C. Mbuvi, C. Muthuri, F. Mutua, G. Adeyiga, L. Winowiecki, M. Crossland, M. Musyoki, S. Chesterman, S. Maithya, S. Muendo, S. Muthuri

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Counties, Land Use and Land-use Change, Makueni County, Women Gender and Youth
Year: 2022

Ensemble Modeling on Near-Infrared Spectra as Rapid Tool for Assessment of Soil Health Indicators for Sustainable Food Production Systems

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)

Andrew Sila, Dawit Solomon, Gebermedihin Ambaw, John Walker Recha, Kennedy O. Olale, Maren Radeny

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Climate-Smart Agriculture, Land Use and Land-use Change, Soils
Year: 2021

Regenerative Agriculture: An opportunity for businesses and society to restore degraded land in Africa

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Africa, Agriculture and Food Systems, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2021

Local communities' and indigenous peoples? land and forestry rights: Assessing the law and practice on tenure security in Kenya

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Robert Kibugi

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Forestry and Natural Resources, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2021

Masai Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) population and land use trends in the Tsavo landscape, Kenya (2021)

University of Nairobi

Njueini John Kabue

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Conservancy, Land Use and Land-use Change, Tourism and Wildlife
Year: 2021

Kenya's first White Rhino Conservation and Management Action Plan

African Wildlife Foundation

Benson Okita-Ouma, Cedric Khayale, Geoffrey Chege, Jamie Gaymer, Jan Stejskal, Linus Kariuki, Martin Mulama, Nathan Gichohi, Patrick Omondi, Philip Muruthi, Rajan Amin, Samuel Mutisyia

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Community-Based Adaptation, Conservancy, Land Use and Land-use Change, Tourism and Wildlife
Year: 2021

Land Acquisition and Resettlement: Investment Risks

Kenya Bankers Association

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: East Africa, Energy and Fuels, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2020

Regreening Africa: Consolidated Baseline Survey Report

World Agroforestry Centre

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Africa, Agriculture and Food Systems, Forestry and Natural Resources, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2020

Climate financing needs in the land sector under the Paris Agreement: An assessment of developing country perspectives

Elsevier

Aarti Gupta, Gabrielle Kissinger, Ivo Mulder, Natalie Unterstell

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Climate Finance, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2019

TEEB Implementation: Supporting Biodiversity and Climate Friendly Land Management in Agricultural Landscapes

UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Agriculture and Food Systems, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2018

Evaluating outcomes of community-based conservation on Kenyan group ranches with remote sensing

Foundation for Environmental Conservation (FEC)

Daudi Sumba, David Williams, James H. Thorne, Natasha Gregory-Michelman, Philip Muruthi

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Community-Based Adaptation, Conservancy, Land Use and Land-use Change, Tourism and Wildlife
Year: 2017

Bioenergy from Degraded Land in Africa

International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Africa, Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Energy and Fuels, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2017

National Land Use Policy

Ministry of Lands, Housing And Urban Development

Type: Government and Legislation
Theme/Sector: Policy and Legislation, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2017

Land Cover Dynamics in the Kirisia Forest Ecosystem, Samburu County, Kenya

Scientific Research Publishing

Antony Oduya Ndub, Fiesta Warinwa, Francis Mwaura, John Warui Kiringe

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Conservancy, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2016

Sustainable land management in Kenya: practices to enhance yields

Economics of Land Degradation (ELD)

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Agriculture and Food Systems, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2016

Kenya Strategic Investment Framework for Sustainable Land Management 2017-2027

Ministry of Environment Climate Change and Forestry

Type: Government and Legislation
Theme/Sector: Environment and Natural Resources, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2016

Valuing Variability: New Perspectives on Climate Resilient Drylands Development

Drylands Learning and Capacity Building Initiative (DLCI), International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), University of Peking

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Adaptation and Resilience, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2015

Kenya National Spatial Plan 2015-2045. (2015)

State Department for Lands

Type: Government and Legislation
Theme/Sector: Policy and Legislation, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2015

African Landscape: New Tools for Protecting Land,Wildlife and Livelihoods

African Wildlife Foundation

Kathleen H. Fitzgerald

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Conservancy, Tourism and Wildlife, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2014

Community Payment for Ecosystem Services in the Amboseli Ecosystem: Leasing Land for Livelihoods and Wildlife

African Wildlife Foundation

Kathleen H. Fitzgerald

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Conservancy, Land Use and Land-use Change, Tourism and Wildlife
Year: 2013

Land use and tenure changes and their impact on the Kitenden wildlife corridor, Amboseli Ecosystem, Kenya

University of Nairobi

Mbane Ogoonoum Joseph Alfred Rodrigue

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Conservancy, Land Use and Land-use Change, Tourism and Wildlife
Year: 2012

Land Use and Climate Change Impacts on the Hydrology of the Upper Mara River Basin, Kenya

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Assefa M. Melesse, D. Gann, L. M. Mango, M. E. McClain, S. G. Setegn

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Climate Change Impacts, Land Use and Land-use Change
Year: 2011

Land Tenure, Reform And Conservation Tools In South Africa and Their Potential Application In Kenya

African Wildlife Foundation

Kathleen H. Fitzgerald

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Africa, Conservancy, Land Use and Land-use Change, Tourism and Wildlife
Year: 2010

Forest Resource Assesment ? Country Report 180 Kenya

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Ndambiri J. Kathendu

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Forestry and Natural Resources, Land Use and Land-use Change, Climate Change Impacts, Earth Data
Year: 2005

A Community Business: Elerai Ranch and Conservation Area, Kenya

African Wildlife Foundation

Ben Mwongela, David Williams, James Kiyiapi, Paul Ole Ntiati, Richard Hatfield

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Conservancy, Land Use and Land-use Change, Tourism and Wildlife
Year: 2005

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