Sustainable mountain development in East Africa in a changing climate

Mount Elgon

Lake Bisina

Lake Opeta

Mount Elgon

Sebei hunting area

UGANDA

Kapchorwa

National Park Forest Reserve National Reserve Hunting area

Suam

Sironko

Governement settlement schemes Plantations inside Forest Reserve Agricultural Development Corporation farms

3340

2770

Mount Elgon National Park

4320

2590

Mbale

MT. ELGON

Plantations inside National Park

Kitale

3340

Bukigai

Other registered parcels (large) Nyayo Tea Zone Development Corporations Chepyuk Settlement Scheme (GovernmentTrust land for settlement) Kenya Agricultural Research Insitute (KARI) Primarily custumary land tenure (includes scattered small leasehold parcels)

Bubolo

2920

Kapsokwony

Kamukywa

Tororo

Freehold

KENYA

Country boundary District boundary

Population Density People per Km²

Bungoma

200-500

Eldoret

>500

25 km

Sources: E.Soini ,2007, “Land tenuremanagement in thedistrictsaroundMountElgon”,World AgroforestryCentre.

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