The fisheries of Lake Victoria, the second largest freshwater body in the world, support the livelihoods of around three million people in the countries that border the lake – Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. But there have been widespread concerns, since the early 2000s, that fish stocks and catches of the key commercial fishery of Nile … Continue reading “A close up look at the social networks of Lake Victoria’s fisherfolk”
Month: November 2017
Sustaining community-based Payments for Ecosystem Services: Lessons from fieldwork on Mikoko Pamoja in Kenya
Sarah Wollring is a 2017 MSc Masters Graduate in International Development (Environment, Sustainability and Politics). Prior to studying at Birmingham, she graduated from Avans University of Applied Sciences in Breda, the Netherlands with a BA in Cross-cultural Management and Languages and did a graduation internship at the European Parliament during which she wrote her dissertation … Continue reading “Sustaining community-based Payments for Ecosystem Services: Lessons from fieldwork on Mikoko Pamoja in Kenya”