Legal and Institutional Regime for the Management of Arid and Semi-arid Ecosystems in the IGAD Member Countries, with Special Reference to Kenya

Abstract

Drought and desertification constitute the most severe limitations to effective utilisation of natural resources and thus socio-economic development in the countries of Eastern Africa. Ojwang' says that, the criteria for combating desertification may derived from international law, and in particular from the Conventional to Combat Desertification (1994). This can be made at the levels of policy, law and institutions, to maintain an optimal interaction of the various elements of ecology which ensures the requisite balances. This can be achieved by promotion of regional co-operation through organizations such as International Authority on Development (IGAD). IGAD member countries have adopted approaches to the physical and social problems occasioned by conditions of drought though limited in maintaining balanced ecological cycles