In addition, recurrent and prolonged droughts have exposed Kenya's arid and semi-arid counties to repeated food and nutrition crises.
By Ruth Ansah Ayisi KITUI, Kenya, 20 March 2015: Painful memories are evoked as Margaret Mumo listens to a group of mothers who are chatting and laughing together at a gathering at Kavuta health centre in the semi-arid county of Kitui, some 200 kilometres north of Nairobi, the country's capital.
As a semi-arid sub-county, rainfall is highly variable (Recha et al. 2012) and this affects the community's livelihood system.
The first study site is a semi-arid rural county in Eastern Kenya which experiences long droughts, resulting in high poverty levels.
The Sulphur Springs, Fish Creek, and Cortez ranges cover the largely mountainous and arid area; the county is sparsely populated.
A field survey was conducted to investigate the amount of irrigation water, inputs and yields of eight crops (spring wheat, maize, onion, cotton, hot pepper, sunflower, melons and fennel) grown under furrow irrigation systems in an arid region, Minqin county, Northwestern China (NWC).
PANDA'S latest project, built for about $500 million, towers 10 stories above the flat, arid land of Guadalupe County in Texas, about halfway between San Antonio and Austin.
The county is arid and is covered by the Shoshone and Toiyabe mountains, which include large segments of Toiyabe National Forest in the south.
Due to the arid nature of the County, livestock mobility is practiced to ensure access to water and pasture resources.
The remote and arid Turkana is a county located in the north of Kenya and a hardship area, whereby hardship area is defined to mean a location where living is relatively harder, for example due to being a very dry region and hence inadequate water, or a region of conflict implying restricted movement.
