Who gets the HANPP (Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production)? Biomass distribution and the bio-economy in the Tana Delta, Kenya

Journal of Political Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 410-433

  Temper, Leah ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Bioeconomy; Human appropriation of biomass; Pastoralists; Property rights; Sugar cane; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PROPERTY RIGHTS; SUGAR CANE; WETLAND;

KENYA; TANA DELTA; TANA RIVER [(CNT) KENYA];

SACCHARUM;

EID: 85012000396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10730451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2458/v23i1.20243     Document Type: Article

References (73)

1. Andersen C.B., R.K. Donovan and J.E. Quinn. 2015. Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP) in an agriculturally-dominated watershed, Southeastern USA. Land 4: 513-540.
2. Andrews, P. 1975. Ecology of the Lower Tana River Flood Plain (Kenya). Journal of the East African Natural History Society and National Museum 151: 1-31.
3. Anonymous. 2009. Grow your own. The Economist June 19. http://www.economist.com/node/11565647
4. Bernstein, H. 2007. Rural livelihoods in a globalising world: bringing class back in. Conference on policy intervention and rural transformation: towards a comparative sociology of development, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 10-16 September 2007.
5. Bocha, G. 2016. State firm Tarda loses ownership of 25,875-hectare land in Tana River. Daily Nation. Sept. 21.
6. Coase, R.H. 1960. The problem of social cost. In Gopalakrishnan, C. (ed.). Classic papers in natural resource economics. Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 87-137.
7. Cooke, A. 2007. Subdividing the savannahs: the ecology of change in Southern Tanzania, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina.
8. Cossins, N.J. 1984. The productivity and potential of pastoral systems. Ethiopian Rangelands Programme, paper presented at the International Rangelands Congress, Adelaide, Australia, May 1984.
9. Cotula, L. 2011. Land deals in Africa: what is in the contracts? London: International Institute for Environmental and Development.
10. Cussó, X., Garrabou, R. and E. Tello. 2006. Social metabolism in an agrarian region of Catalonia (Spain) in 1860-1870: flows, energy balance and land use. Ecological Economics 58(1):49-65.
11. Deininger K. and D. Byerlee, with J. Lindsay, A. Norton, H. Selod, and M. Stickler. 2010. Rising global interest in farmland: can it yield sustainable and equitable benefits? Washington DC: World Bank.
12. Duvail, S., C. Médard, O. Hamerlynck and D.W. Nyingi. 2012. Land and water grabbing in an East African coastal wetland: The case of the Tana delta. Water Alternatives 5(2): 322-343.
13. Ensminger, J. 1984. Monetization of the Galole Orma economy: changes in the use of fuel and woodstock. In C. Barnes, J. Ensminger, and P. O'Keefe (eds). Wood energy and households: perspectives on rural Kenya. Uppsala: The African Institute.
14. Ensminger, J. and A. Rutten. 1991. The political economy of changing property rights: dismantling a pastoral commons. American Ethnologist 18(4): 683-699.
15. Erb, K-H., F. Krausmann, W. Lucht and H. Haberl. 2009. Embodied HANPP: mapping the spatial disconnect between global biomass production and consumption. Ecological Economics 69: 328-334.
16. ETC Group. 2010. The new biomasters: synthetic biology and the next assault on biodiversity and livelihoods. ETC Group Communiqué # 104. ETC Group.
17. Fetzel, T., M. Niedertscheider, H. Haberl, F. Krausmann and K-H. Erb. 2016. Patterns and changes of land use and land-use efficiency in Africa 1980-2005: an analysis based on the human appropriation of net primary production framework. Regional Environmental Change 16(5): 1507-1520.
18. Fischer-Kowalski, M. and H. Haberl. 2012. Metabolism and colonization: modes of production and the physical exchange between societies and nature. Innovation: European Journal of Social Science Research 6(4): 415-442. Academia
19. Fisher, P. and Bender, A.E., 1975. The value of food. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
20. Frow, E., D. Ingram, W. Powell, D. Steer, J. Vogel and S. Yearly. 2009. The politics of plants. Food Security 1: 17-23.
21. Glenday, J. 2005. Preliminary assessment of carbon storage and the potential for forestry based carbon offset projects in the Lower Tana River forests: the Tana Delta Irrigation Project and the Tana River National Primate Reserve. Unpublished report to the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund. http://cepf.tfcg.org/downloads/Tana_Carbon_Study.pdf (accessed Oct. 2016).
22. GRAIN 2008. Seized: the 2008 land-grab for food and financial security. https://www.grain.org/article/entries/93-seized-the-2008-landgrab-for-food-and-financial-security (accessed Oct. 2016).
23. Guha, R. and Martinez-Alier, J. 1997. Varieties of environmentalism: essays North and South. London: Earthscan.
24. Haberl, H. 1997. Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production as an environmental indicator: implications for sustainable development. Ambio 26(3): 143-146.
25. Haberl, H., K-H. Erb, and F. Krausmann. 2014. Human appropriation of net primary production: patterns, trends, and planetary boundaries. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 39: 363-391.
26. Haberl, H., K-H. Erb, and F. Krausmann. 2010. Global human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP). In Cutler J.C. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Earth. Washington, DC: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment. Last revised April 29, 2010. www. eoearth.org (Site was down, Nov. 2016)
27. Haberl, H., K-H. Erb, F. Krausmann, S. Berecz, N. Ludwiczek, J. Martínez-Alier, A. Musel and A. Schaffartzik. 2009. Using embodied HANPP to analyze teleconnections in the global land system: conceptual considerations. Danish Journal of Geography 109(2):119-130.
28. Haberl, H., K-H. Erb, F. Krausmann, V. Gaube, A. Bondeau, C. Plutzar, S. Gingrich, W. Lucht, and M. Fischer-Kowalski, M. 2007a. Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in earth's terrestrial ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104: 12942-12947.
29. Haberl, H., K-H. Erb, C. Plutzar, M. Fischer-Kowalski, and F. Krausmann. 2007b. Human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) as indicator for pressures on biodiversity. Ecological Questions 8: 25-36.
30. Haberl, H., H. Weisz, C. Amann, A. Bondeau, N. Eisenmenger, K-H. Erb, M. Fischer-Kowalski and F. Krausmann. 2006. The energetic metabolism of the European Union and the United States: decadal energy input time-series with an emphasis on biomass. Journal of Industrial Ecology 10(4):151-171. Researchgate
31. Haberl, H., M. Fischer-Kowalski, F. Krausmann, J. Martinez-Alier and V Winiwarter. 2011. A sociometabolic transition towards sustainability? Challenges for another Great Transformation. Sustainable Development 14: 1-14. Researchgate
32. Hamerlynck O., J. Nyunja, Q. Luke, D. Nyingi, D. Lebrun and S. Duvail. 2010. The communal forest, wetland, rangeland and agricultural landscape mosaics of the Lower Tana, Kenya: a socio-ecological entity in peril in Sustainable use of biological diversity in socio-ecological production landscapes.
33. Background to the Satoyama Initiative for the benefit of biodiversity and human well-being. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal. Technical Series 52: 54-62. [Available online www. cbd.int/database/attachment/?id=340]. Accessed March 2012.
34. Hamerlynck O., Q. Luke, T.M. Nyange, S. Duvail and C. Leauthaud. 2012. Range extension, imminent threats and conservation options for two endangered primates: the Tana River Red Colobus Procolobus rufomitratus rufomitratus (Peters, 1879) and the Tana River Mangabey Cercocebus galeritus (Peters, 1879) in the Lower Tana Floodplain and Delta, Kenya. African Primates 7(2): 211-217.
35. Homewood, K. and Rogers, W.A. 1991. Maasailand ecology: pastoral development and wildlife conservation in Ngorongoro, Tanzania, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
36. Horta, K. 1994. Troubled waters: World Bank disasters along Kenya's Tana River. Multinational Monitor. July 1, 1994. http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1994/08/mm0894 08.html (accessed Oct. 2016)
37. Hughes, F.M.R. 1984. A comment on the impact of development schemes on the floodplain forests of the Tana River of Kenya. The Geographical Journal 150: 230-244.
38. Hughes, F.M.R. 1990. The influence of flooding regimes on forest distribution and composition in the Tana River Floodplain, Kenya. The Journal of Applied Ecology 27: 475-491.
39. HVA International 2007. Tana Integrated Sugar Project EIA study report. http://www.dlist-asclme.org/sites/default/files/doclib/MUMIAS Tana EIA part1.kenya 0.pdf (accessed Oct. 2016).
40. Imhoff, M.L., L. Bounoua, T. Ricketts, C. Loucks, R. Harriss and W.T. Lawrence. 2004. Global patterns in human consumption of net primary production. Nature 429: 870-873.
41. Irungu, P. 2000. Cattle keeping practices of the Orma people, a household survey in Tana River District, Kenya. Ketri-Ilri Collaborative Study.
42. Johansson, S. 1991. Ecological implications for Tana River Basin forestry and irrigated agriculture. In P. Trevor and W. Baxter (eds). When the grass is gone: development intervention in African arid lands. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies.
43. Kagwanja, P.M. 2003. Globalizing ethnicity, localizing citizenship: globalization, identity politics and violence in Kenya's Tana River Region. Africa Development XXVIII. 1 & 2: 112-152.
44. Kastner, T., K-H. Erb and F. Krausmann. 2016. The Philippines 1910-2003: a century of transitions. In Haberl H., M. Fischer-Kowalski and F. Krausmann (eds.). Social ecology: society-nature relations across time and space. Springer International Publishing. Pp. 447-458.
45. Krausmann, F., Erb, K.H., Gingrich, S., Haberl, H., Bondeau, A., Gaube, V, Lauk, C., Plutzar, C. and Searchinger, T.D., 2013. Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110(25): 10324-10329.
46. Krausmann, F., K-H. Erb, S. Gingrich, C. Lauk and H. Haberl. 2008. Global patterns of socioeconomic biomass flows in the year 2000: a comprehensive assessment of supply, consumption and constraints. Ecological Economics 65: 471-487. Academia
47. Leauthaud, C., S. Duvail, O. Hamerlynck, J. L Paul, H. Cochet, J. Nyunja, J. Albergel and O. Grimberger. 2013. Floods and livelihoods: the impact of changing water resources on wetland agro-ecological production systems in the Tana River Delta, Kenya. Global Environmental Change 23(1): 252-263.
48. Lebrun, D., O. Hamerlynck, S. Duvail and J. Nyunja. 2010. The importance of flexibility: an analysis of the large-scale Tana Delta irrigation project in Kenya, implemented under an estate system. In B. Calas and C.A. Mumma Martinon (eds.) Shared water, shared opportunities: hydropolitics in East Africa. Nairobi: IFRA and Hekima College. Pp. 261-282.
49. Luke, Q., R. Hatfield and P. Cunneyworth. 2005. Rehabilitation of the Tana Delta Irrigation Project, Kenya: an environmental assessment. Unpublished report to the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund. http://www.cepf.net/Documents/Final. TDIP_Environmental_Assessment.pdf (accessed Oct. 2016).
50. M'Gonigle, R.M. 1999. Ecological economics and political ecology: towards a necessary synthesis. Ecological Economics 28: 11-26.
51. Machuhi, E. 2010. World Bank ordered to pay villagers Sh634 Million for land. Daily Nation. 19 April
52. Marchand, M. 1987. The productivity of African floodplains', International Journal of Environmental Studies 29: 201-211.
53. Marsh, C.W. 1986. A survey of Tana River primates and their habitat. Primate Conservation 7:72-82.
54. Martinez-Alier, J. 2002. The environmentalism of the poor: a study of ecological conflicts and valuation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Ch.1, 2
55. Medley, K.E. 1993. Extractive forest resources of the Tana River national primate reserve, Kenya. Economic Botany 47: 171-183.
56. Mireri, C., J. Onjala and N. Oguge. 2008. The Economic Valuation of the Proposed Tana Integrated Sugar Project (TISP), Kenya. Report for Nature Kenya. Mimeo.
57. Moore, J.W. 2009. Ecology and the accumulation of capital: a brief environmental history of neoliberalism. Lund: Department of Human Geography, Lund University.
58. Moore, J.W. 2000. Environmental crises and the metabolic rift in world-historical perspective. Organization and Environment 13(2): 123-158.
59. Mugambi, K. 2009. Mumias seeks to unlock Sh30 billion Tana Delta Funds. The Nation 18 July.
60. Odhengo, P., P. Matiku, J. Nyangena, K. Wahome, B. Opaa, S. Munguti, G. Koyier, P. Nelson, E. Mnyamwezi and P. Misati. 2014. Tana River Delta land use plan baseline report. Nairobi: Kenyan Ministry of Lands, Physical Planning Department.
61. Okoth-Ogendo, H.W.O. 1991. Tenants of the crown: evolution of agrarian law and institutions in Kenya. Nairobi: ACTS Press, African Centre for Technology Studies.
62. Running, S.W. 2014. A regional look at HANPP: human consumption is increasing, NPP is not. Environmental Research Letters 9(11): 111003.
63. Schandl, H., C. Grubunhel, H. Haberl and H. Weisz, 2002. Handbook of physical accounting: measuring biophysical dimensions of socio-economic activities: MFA-EFA-HANPP. Working Paper 73. Vienna: Institute for Social Ecology.
64. Sieferle, R. 2001. The subterranean forest: energy systems and the Industrial Revolution. Cambridge: White Horse Press.
65. Singh, J. and C.M. Grünbühel. 2003. Environmental relations and biophysical transition: the case of Trinket Island. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 85: 191-208.
66. Singh, S.J., F. Krausmann, S. Gingrich, H. Haberl, K.H. Erb, P. Lanz and L. Temper. 2012. India's biophysical economy, 1961-2008: sustainability in a national and global context. Ecological Economics 76: 60-69.
67. Tana River District Development Plan 2002-2008. Nairobi: Ministry of Planning and National Development.
68. Terer, T., G.G. Ndiritu, and N.N. Gichuki. 2004. Socio-economic values and traditional strategies of managing wetland resources in Lower Tana River, Kenya. Hydrobiologia 527: 3-14.
69. Upton, C. 2014. The new politics of pastoralism: identity, justice and global activism. Geoforum 54: 207-216.
70. Vitousek, P.M., P.R. Ehrlich, A.H. Ehrlich, and P.A. Matson. 1986. Human appropriation of the products of photosynthesis. BioScience 36: 363-373.
71. Walker, P.A. 2005. Political ecology: where is the ecology? Progress in Human Geography 29(1): 73-82.
72. Wright, D.H. 1983. Species-energy theory: an extension of species-area theory. Oikos 41: 496-506.
73. Zoomers, A. 2010. Globalisation and the foreignisation of space: seven processes driving the current global land grab. Journal of Peasant Studies 37(2): 429-447.