Kenya Water Tower Mt Elgon Land Use Land Cover 2017

Over the past three decades, large areas of gazetted forest reserves have been deforested and converted to other uses while unprotected indigenous forests are continuously degraded by illegal and legal of logging of valuable timber trees resulting in reduced carbon stocks and degraded biodiversity values. Forest cover loss in Kenya can be largely attributed to agricultural expansion which is motivated by the subsistence or the market economy. The best example of agricultural expansion fuelled by subsistence and commercial farming interests is in the Mau Conservancy. Unprecedented levels of officially sanctioned excisions of gazetted forests by 2001 was motivated by interests in commercial tea and wheat cultivation, in addition to small scale farming for subsistence and surplus production for the market. Landuse Landcover maps are useful in monitoring and tracking changes within forest ecosystems.

Over the past three decades, large areas of gazetted forest reserves have been deforested and converted to other uses while unprotected indigenous forests are continuously degraded by illegal and legal of logging of valuable timber trees resulting in reduced carbon stocks and degraded biodiversity values. Forest cover loss in Kenya can be largely attributed to agricultural expansion which is motivated by the subsistence or the market economy. The best example of agricultural expansion fuelled by subsistence and commercial farming interests is in the Mau Conservancy. Unprecedented levels of officially sanctioned excisions of gazetted forests by 2001 was motivated by interests in commercial tea and wheat cultivation, in addition to small scale farming for subsistence and surplus production for the market. Landuse Landcover maps are useful in monitoring and tracking changes within forest ecosystems.

This data set represents land cover map for the year 2016. This layer was clipped from Sentinel-2 global land cover data.

Layer showing changes in Kenya maize land areas from 2000 to 2010.

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Layer showing changes in Kenya crop land areas from 2000 to 2010