Global Warming

Doomsday-like predictions involving how Kenya is affected by the U.S's rampant consumption of fossil fuels. Interesting, I thought, but may not have any relevance to our project.
http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=165809
- John

More Desertification

I'm not sure really how to do the link thing but here's an article.
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?hid=114&sid=72b58860-fae9-4de6-a9db-87bcf8eae90c%40sessionmgr102
This short article mentions the 1977 United Nations conference on desertification, which shows that this problem has been present for a while.
- John

Kenya Ecosystems Report by UN

This is a fairly lengthy report about the state of Kenya's ecosystems currently. There is a table in there that shows that all of Kenya has problems with biodiversity, food production, water supply, energy resources, and clean water, among other things.

- John

DESERTIFICATION

This article seems interesting and relevant. I haven't read it in it's entirety.

Kenya Soil Survey, P.O. Box 14733, 00800 Nairobi, Kenya (e-mail: kss@iconnect.co.ke)

This is the name/address of the company who published the article.

~ruth

Land Use Article

This is a pretty lengthy article regarding land use in the region close to Mt. Kilimanjaro.

~Ruth