An environmental geographical study on the moral economy of rural societies in Kenya's semi-arid areas
| Project/Area Number |
14402037
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
Human geography
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
UEDA Gen Tohoku University, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Associate Professor, 大学院・環境科学研究科, 助教授 (10241514)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
OTSUKI Yoshinori Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science, Research Associate, 大学院・理学研究科, 助手 (00272013)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2004
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2004)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥9,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥3,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥2,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000)
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| Keywords | international research exchange / Kenya / irrigation / contract farming / water users'association / slope processes / sheetwash / marketing / 微地形 / マスムーブメント / 資源管理 / 食糧安全保障 / 農産物流通 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study examines socio-economic aspects and sustainable environmental use in the sedentary rural society in Central Kenya, which has experienced rapid population growth and field expansion into semi-arid areas.
1.Selecting an irrigation scheme along a tributary of Ewaso Ngiro in the Laikipia Plain, the study identifies a positive relationship between socio-economic stratification and irrigation-benefit distribution among the peasants, investigating the settlement process and land use change, ownership of land and irrigation means, and the reality of dry-season irrigation. However, the relationship is not necessarily positive when many producers adopt the risk-minimizing strategy of small-scale production as is found in the contract farming of horticulture for export, where the producer price and profit are subject to global and seasonal conditions and labor cost minimization. The study then points out that the moral stressing household autonomy has been generalized under individualiz
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ed usage of water, land and labor, and that this has hampered communal management of the irrigation system.
2.The geomorphological part of the study examines detailed information on slope processes occurring in two areas under different climatic conditions, in the uppermost drainage area of Ewaso Ngiro. In the Aberdare Mountain, situated in highland sub-tropical areas, many landslides and multiple slumps frequently take place on the valley-side slopes, and it has undergone relatively rapid mass movements. On the other, in the semi-arid Laikipia Plain, sheetwash extensively appears on the most slopes, which locally results in intensive sheet erosion of recent years. It is concluded that considerable landform changes due to sheetwash can occur in semi-arid areas, depending on land use change.
3.The study illuminates marketing strategies in the above irrigation scheme as cases of regional linkages in the era of post structural adjustment of the Kenyan economy to understand better the situation where the case scheme was located. Less
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