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Lake Victoria’s aquaculture industry holds promise for improving food security and livelihoods in east Africa.
The organisms that cause greening are highly concentrated in Kenya’s shallow Winam Gulf.
A new study into drownings of small-scale fishers on the Kenyan side of Lake Victoria has found that extreme weather and boat owners’ failure to provide life jackets are causes.
The new report on alien invasive species doesn’t just concentrate on problems. It also offers solutions.
The mega dam in Jinja was meant to give Uganda energy independence, but this was constrained by Britain’s agricultural interests in Egypt.
The flooding has affected water resources, agriculture and food security, health and sanitation, fisheries, and energy and infrastructure.
Lake Victoria’s past is key to understanding its future.
With proper regulation, Lake Victoria’s fisheries could increase production without damaging wild stocks or the environment.
Wetlands are disappearing rapidly - but new data and technologies are revolutionising our knowledge.
The threat to use force to defend Egypt’s right to water from the Nile has been a common theme through successive governments.
Urgent measures need to be adopted to prevent corruption linked to illegal fishing activity in and around Lake Victoria.
Information about the threats facing Lake Victoria and how they’re perceived are crucial to reverse the damage that’s been done.
The dispute between Uganda and Kenya over an islet half the size of a football pitch has been fuelled by the perceived imbalance in fish harvests and the prospects of oil reserves beneath.
Social ties between Lake Victoria’s fisherfolk are critical for gaining access to credit, employment, maintaining reliable and skilled labour and access to markets.
Lake Tana in Ethiopia has been massively affected by the invasive weed, water hyacinth. Control methods are available but there are challenges.
Climate change, deforestation, overfishing and hydrocarbon exploitation threatens one of Africa’s oldest lake’s, Lake Tanganyika.
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Cornell University, Cornell University
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Director, Freshwater Systems Research, Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute
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Professor of Environment and Development, University of Birmingham
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Head of Political Science Department, College of Law and Politics, University of Human Development, Iraq
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Professor and Director of Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute
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Lecturer in international law, University of Iowa
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University Distinguished Professor Joint Professor, Geosciences and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
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Principal Researcher – Earth observation for sustainable development, International Water Management Institute
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Senior Lecturer, University of Rwanda
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Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
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Lecturer, University of Nairobi
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Assistant Professor, School of the Environment, University of Toronto
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Deputy Director of the Centre for Biological Control at Rhodes University and Biological Control and Freshwater Alien Invasive Species Management, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
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Professor, Weber State University
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Professor of Geography, Bowling Green State University