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1 Ongugo, P. O. 1999. The catchment approach to soil and water conservation in Kenya. In McDonald, M.; Brown, K. (Eds.), Issues and options in the design of soil and water conservation projects - Proceedings of a workshop held in Llandudno, Conwy, UK, 1-3 February 1999. Gwynedd, UK: University of Wales, Bangor. School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences. pp.57-66.
Soil conservation ; Water conservation ; Catchment areas ; Policy ; Social aspects ; Economic aspects ; Farm size ; Land use ; Livestock / Kenya / Homa Bay / Muranga / Machakos / Kilifi
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.4 G000 MCD Record No: H025397)
2 Siongok, T. K. A.; Mahmoud, A. A. F.; Ouma, J. H.; Warren, K. S.; Muller, A. S.; Handa, A. K.; Houser, H. B. 1976. Morbidity in schistosomiasis mansoni in relation to intensity of infection: Study of a community in Machakos, Kenya. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 25(2):273-284.
Schistosomiasis ; Waterborne diseases ; Disease vectors ; Public health ; Water supply ; Sanitation / Kenya / Machakos / Lower Nduu Village
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5908 Record No: H029136)
3 Biamah, E. K.; Nhlabathi, N. N. 2003. Conservation tillage practices for dryland crop production in semi-arid Kenya: promotion of conservation tillage techniques for improving household food security in Liuni, Machakos, Kenya. In Beukes, D.; de Villiers, M.; Mkhize, S.; Sally, H.; van Rensburg, L. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Symposium and Workshop on Water Conservation Technologies for Sustainable Dryland Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa (WCT), held at Bloem Spa Lodge and Conference Centre, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 8-11 April 2003. Pretoria, South Africa: ARC-Institute for Soil, Climate and Water. pp.45-50.
Water conservation ; Technology ; Tillage ; Rain ; Dry farming ; Crop production ; Arid zones ; Food security ; Drought / Kenya / Machakos
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.1 G100 BEU Record No: H034386)
4 Barron, J. 2004. Dry spell mitigation to upgrade semi-arid rainfed agriculture: Water harvesting and soil nutrient management for smallholder maize cultivation in Machakos, Kenya. Stockholm, Sweden: Stockholm University. Department of Systems Ecology. 39p. + annexes.
Maize ; Rain-fed farming ; Water harvesting ; Soil management ; Soil fertility ; Supplementary irrigation ; Gravity flow ; Fertilizers ; Water balance ; Yields ; Plant growth ; Models ; Percolation ; Water deficit ; Experiments ; Runoff ; Dams ; Evapotranspiration / Kenya / Machakos
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: D 633.15 G140 BAR Record No: H034644)
5 Barron, J.; Rockström, J.; Stroosnijder, L. 2004. Modelling on-farm water balance effects of water harvesting for Zea mays in semi-arid Kenya. In Barron, J., Dry spell mitigation to upgrade semi-arid rainfed agriculture: Water harvesting and soil nutrient management for smallholder maize cultivation in Machakos, Kenya. Stockholm, Sweden: Stockholm University. Department of Systems Ecology. 23p.
Simulation models ; Calibration ; Maize ; Water balance ; Productivity ; Drought ; Water harvesting / Kenya / Machakos
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: D 633.15 G140 BAR Record No: H034649)
6 Pagiola, S. 1996. Price policy and returns to soil conservation in Semi-Arid Kenya. Environmental and Resource Economics, 8:255-271.
Soil conservation ; Price policy ; Soil degradation ; Public policy ; Environmental effects ; Farmers ; Developing countries / Kenya / Kitui / Machakos
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6917 Record No: H035104)
7 Elijah, V. T.; Odiyo, J. O. 2020. Perception of environmental spillovers across scale in climate change adaptation planning: the case of small-scale farmers’ irrigation strategies, Kenya. Climate, 8(1):3. (Special issue: Climate Change in Complex Systems: Effects, Adaptations, and Policy Considerations for Agriculture and Ecosystems) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/cli8010003]
Climate change adaptation ; Planning ; Small scale farming ; Farmers attitudes ; Irrigation ; Strategies ; Environmental effects ; Disaster risk reduction ; Decision making ; Ecosystems ; Soil analysis ; Salinity ; Agricultural sector ; Economic aspects ; Policies / Kenya / Kakamega / Machakos
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049624)
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The failure to acknowledge and account for environmental externalities or spillovers in climate change adaptation policy, advocacy, and programming spaces exacerbate the risk of ecological degradation, and more so, the degradation of land. The use of unsuitable water sources for irrigation may increase salinisation risks. However, few if any policy assessments and research efforts have been directed at investigating how farmer perceptions mediate spillovers from the ubiquitous irrigation adaptation strategy. In this study, the cognitive failure and/or bias construct is examined and proposed as an analytical lens in research, policy, and learning and the convergence of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation discourses. A cross-sectional survey design and multistage stratified sampling were used to collect data from 69 households. To elicit the environmental impacts of irrigation practices, topsoil and subsoils from irrigated and non-irrigated sites were sampled and analysed using AAS (atomic absorption spectrophotometer). A generalised linear logistic weight estimation procedure was used to analyse the perception of risks while an analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to analyse changes in exchangeable sodium percentage (ESP). The findings from small-scale farmers in Machakos and Kakamega counties, Kenya, suggest multifaceted biases and failures about the existence and importance of externalities in adaptation planning discourses. Among other dimensions, a cognitive failure which encompasses fragmented approaches among institutions for use and management of resources, inadequate policy. and information support, as well as the poor integration of actors in adaptation planning accounts for adaptation failure. The failures in such human–environment system interactions have the potential to exacerbate the existing vulnerability of farmer production systems in the long run. The findings further suggest that in absence of risk message information dissemination, education level, farming experience, and information accumulation, as integral elements to human capital, do not seem to have a significant effect on behaviour concerning the mitigation of environmental spillovers. Implicitly, reversing the inherent adaptation failures calls for system approaches that enhance coordinated adaptation planning, prioritise the proactive mitigation of slow-onset disaster risks, and broadens decision support systems such as risk information dissemination integration, into the existing adaptation policy discourses and practice
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