The Kenya Landscape Actors’ Platform (KenLAP) is backing streamlining of various laws regulating the country’s landscape in a bid to mobile sufficient resources to support landscape restoration.
According to the platform, the country’s landscape is currently facing severe degradation as a result of among others, climate change, unsustainable land use practices, population increase and deforestation.
“Landscape restoration is very expensive. It is easier to lose your landscape in terms of integrity but it is very expensive for you to restore the same landscape, so we don’t have enough resources in terms of financial resources and human capital. It becomes difficult to restore the landscape,” said Dr Michael Okoti, chief research scientist at the Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO).
As a result of the population increase which has further accelerated urban migration, Dr Okoti says Kenya is staring at losses due to landscape degradation of high potential cropping lands and high potential rangelands.
Source: https://www.kbc.co.ke/policy-review-to-boost-kenyas-landscape-productivity/