# mnu_FMngtProblems

FMgtProblem:
Lack of money to improve farming practice and hire labour


FMgtProblem:
Lack of money to buy inputs, implements and bulls


# mnu_TrSpp

Com_TrSpp:
Eucalyptus (Com), Blue gum (Eng), Mti-mbao (Swa)


Com_TrSpp:
Terminalia mentalis (Sci), Umbrella tree (Com)


# tbl_BTrPlanting

Tr_BPltSpp:
Eucalyptus (Com), Blue gum (Eng), Mti-mbao (Swa)


Tr_BPltSpp:
Terminalia mentalis (Sci), Umbrella tree (Com)


# tbl_FarmingTraining

Topic:
Growing food crops,economics,tree planting,livestock rearing


Topic:
Tree planting,animal husbandry,good agricultural techniques


Topic:
Tree planting,livestock keeping,good agricultural techniques


Reason_NotApplied:
Didn't get detailed information on the training


# tbl_FTrPlanting

Tr_FPltSpp:
Eucalyptus (Com), Blue gum (Eng), Mti-mbao (Swa)


Tr_FPltSpp:
Terminalia mentalis (Sci), Umbrella tree (Com)


# tbl_Groups

Group_Focus:
To help strengthen our income and to help each other. We do horticulture but did not succeed because of lack of water


Group_Focus:
plans to grow vegetables and tomatoes but still lack capital


Group_Focus:
Donate 100/= every week for agricultural development


Group_Focus:
Tree planting,hire farms and grow sweet potatoes


Group_Focus:
Merry go round for buying household products


Group_Focus:
Merry go round,plant bananas,save money in an account


Group_Focus:
planning to do irrigation but still lack water pipes


Group_Focus:
livestock keeping,bee keeping,selling the animals and banking the money


Group_Focus:
Bee keeping,merry go round,chicken rearing,tree planting


Group_Focus:
working for the members and buying livestock with the money


Group_Focus:
To enhance togetherness and promote  income in agriculture


Group_Focus:
save money to help members whenever there is a problem.


Group_Focus:
Engaged in I.G.A eg livestock keeping,tents for hire,merry go round


Group_Focus:
enhance spirit of togetherness and improve our income.


Group_Focus:
Helps bring us together in development matters


Group_Focus:
Merry go round,established a kitchen garden for horticultural crops,grow cotton,have seats for hire


Group_Focus:
grow cotton,have chairs which are hired,help orphans and the elderly


Group_Focus:
Rope making,sell the products and bank the money.


Group_Focus:
Livestock keeping and later sell them at a profit


Group_Focus:
Look after orphans,provide counselling to the sick.


Group_Focus:
livestock rearing and benevolent matters


Group_Focus:
Tree planting and better farm management


Group_Focus:
Encourage sugarcane farminng.Helps uplift the community in farming.


Group_Focus:
Promote the skills on sugarcane production and pass it on to the younger generation.


Group_Focus:
Grow tomatoes,established a tree nursery


Group_Focus:
keep dairy livstock to boost their income


Group_Focus:
Tree nursery establishment to boost income


Group_Focus:
Enhances togetherness when there is a problem.


Group_Focus:
Rehabilitating degraded areas around Kowala community


Group_Focus:
Help promote our income and bring us together


Group_Focus:
Basket weaving,rope making,sell and bank the money


Group_Focus:
Help us come together and support in times of hardship


Group_Focus:
Bereavement,assist each other with manual labour during planting,weeding,harvesting


Group_Focus:
Bee keeping,practise horticulture and poultry keeping


Group_Focus:
Work as agroup on somebody's farm or help the members when necessary.


Group_Focus:
Merry go round,money got can be used to buy anything one wishes.


Group_Focus:
Planting horticultural crops and sugarcane


Group_Focus:
Helping orphans and widows,donating foodgrains and storing for future use among the group members.


Group_Focus:
It promotes our income through merry go round


Group_Focus:
Helps the vulnerable by either building for them houses


Group_Focus:
Members donate money to enable them buy livestock.


Group_Focus:
Making ropes and pottery,contributing money and banking for future use


Group_Focus:
merry go round,contributing money and sharing amongst members.


Group_Focus:
Poltry keeping,giving members loan when they have a problem.


Group_Focus:
Banking money after members have contributed.


Group_Focus:
Merry go round,collect money to help members when need arises.


Group_Focus:
Create job opportunity among the youths through farming.


Group_Focus:
Soil conservation,have tree nurseries,help malnourished children.


Group_Focus:
helps us become self reliant by supporting the members.


Group_Focus:
Help members be self reliant and come togther to bring work easy.


Group_Focus:
Have a vegetable garden,have plantedsukuma


Group_Focus:
to assist in financial problems and help to bring us together.


Group_Focus:
Plant grass,dig trenches,train on soil conservation measures


Group_Focus:
trainings on agricultural crops production and tree planting


Group_Focus:
Trains on crop production,soil conservation measures


Group_Focus:
Weaving baskets,rope making,then selling to get income.


Group_Focus:
Health care,helping orphans and thevulnerablegroup


Group_Focus:
Development based,contribute money and save


Group_Focus:
Operate bicycle taxis,planing to establish a tree nursery


# tbl_Households

Resp_Comments:
Trees are really important to human life. We experience a lot of drought which destroys our crops and our crops are all we have to sustain our income so your organization should come to our aid


Tr_Spp2:
Eucalyptus (Com), Blue gum (Eng), Mti-mbao (Swa)

Resp_Comments:
I always fail in most of my work due to lack of money. How can I improve on agroforestry if I have a small farm?


Tr_Spp3:
Eucalyptus (Com), Blue gum (Eng), Mti-mbao (Swa)

Tr_RNoPlanting:
Due to old age she can not manage planting new trees.

Resp_Comments:
The project is to look for a way of considering the weak and the old.


Resp_Comments:
Since there is inadequate rainfall, there should be introduction of irrigation to support the locals.


Tr_Spp1:
Eucalyptus (Com), Blue gum (Eng), Mti-mbao (Swa)

Resp_Comments:
He only needs advice on how he can manage trees and farm


Resp_Comments:
Wonders if there could be some help offered to the unable apart from trees.


Tr_Spp2:
Terminalia mentalis (Sci), Umbrella tree (Com)


Tr_Spp1:
Terminalia mentalis (Sci), Umbrella tree (Com)


Resp_Comments:
The project should be of help to the locals.


Resp_Comments:
The organisation should consider those interviewed incase they can provide them with loans.


Resp_Comments:
The project should immediately fulfil their promise of free seedlings to locals.


Resp_Comments:
The organisation should provide the locals with vital information on environmental management.


Resp_Comments:
Project should continue working with the locals to enlighten them on environmental conservation.


Resp_Comments:
Apart from free seedlings and advice on environmental issues the project should provide loans to locals so as to uplift them on farm management.


Resp_Comments:
Since the husband is not in you cannot take the samples.But I am grateful if whatever promised by the project will be succesful.


Resp_Comments:
Would appreciate if the project would offer loans to farmers.


Resp_Comments:
The project should not fail the locals as they have got hopes in them


Resp_Comments:
Requests for training on tree planting and management


Resp_Comments:
Requests the project to assist her child proceed with education.I don't have enough money to cater for his education.


Tr_RNoPlanting:
The farms are far from the homestead so its difficult to look after the trees.

Resp_Comments:
I'm only interested in planting improved fallows


Resp_Comments:
Requests the project to help them establish themselves in serious farming by providing them with horticultural seeds and farm implements


Resp_Comments:
Asking for assistance to take care of his children because he's always sick and there's no one to support them


Resp_Comments:
Lack knowledge on how to improve production in our farms so requesting for help.


Tr_RNoPlanting:
I intend to plant later since now I am alone and I cant manage.

Resp_Comments:
Why are you collecting this data.Can you help me to improve in agricultural production.


Resp_Comments:
Can the project help us acquire fertilizers and skills to help improve crop production and helpcurb erosion.


Resp_Comments:
We will appreciate if we can get some boost from you financially.We don't have clean drinking water so we need drugs like water guard.


Resp_Comments:
We would like to plant trees like blue gum,cypress,Gravella and fruit trees.


Resp_Comments:
Requests for assistance in crop production.


Resp_Comments:
Requesting the project to help the widows.


Resp_Comments:
Brring us seedlings so that we can plant them on our farms


Resp_Comments:
Livestock diseases,needs help ongood techniques on animal husbandry,lack of enough grazing land.Water is a problem because the taps often dry up.


Resp_Comments:
I am waiting for the positive results of the project.


Resp_Comments:
What's the aim of the project when they ask such questions?Requesting for a better house from the project.


Resp_Comments:
Requesting theproject to set up a resource centre near the locals to enable them get information on farming.Requests for funding to the groups to enable them take care of more orphans and the sick.


Resp_Comments:
we need aresource centre to get information on how to manage our farms.Assist us with water points.


Resp_Comments:
What kind of assistance can you offer us?You've come and asked a lot of questions several times yet nothing has come out of them.


Resp_Comments:
What kind of advice or help can you offer us?


Resp_Comments:
Asking for assistance in tree planting and crop production


Resp_Comments:
Extension officers are not near the locals.


Resp_Comments:
Request the project not to forget the locals when offering help in terms of development to other people.


Resp_Comments:
Training needed on tree planting and crop production.


Resp_Comments:
Needs training on crop production.Is there any assistance in raising up the orphans I have?


Resp_Comments:
This is a new home, so need many trees to make it beautiful. At the farm I wont plant any.


Resp_Comments:
I am interested in development project but lack capital and experience.Assist us to achieve something.


Resp_Comments:
I don't have enough income to support my family,can the project come to our aid?


Resp_Comments:
She is being affected by the katuk Oddeyo gully.It's eating away the compound.Her animals are dying because of the gully


Tr_RNoPlanting:
We are both old. We cannot do the work of looking after seedlings; and, trees do not seem to do well in this environment.

Resp_Comments:
Asking if the kaduoki women group can be assisted financially.


Resp_Comments:
What's the reason for all these questions?you people came and disappeared,what do you have in store for us this time/


Resp_Comments:
Asking for assistance to enable her improve her crop yield.


Resp_Comments:
I'd like to plant trees.Can I be assisted with tree seedlings?


Resp_Comments:
I'm experiencing soil erosion on my farms.Can you offer some kind of training to us to help us have knowledge on soil conservation.


Resp_Comments:
Help us improve on our farming practises.


Resp_Comments:
Asking if I can be assisted in poultry rearing.


Resp_Comments:
Requesting the project to assist with seedlings so I can establish my own woodlot.


Resp_Comments:
I would like to expand my knowledge on agroforestry,please provide us with indeginous tree seedlings.


Resp_Comments:
I have a plot fit for woodlot and I'm ready to give it out for woodlot.There's water problem,please bring us any help to solve it.


Resp_Comments:
I'm willing to give the project a plot where they can plant trees.We also have water problem,so I'm requesting if the project can help me build a borehole.


Resp_Comments:
I'm willing to give the project a plot to plant trees.I'm asking for financial assistance because I'm a tailor and also a midwife thus I don't have the money to purchase the required material to enabl


Resp_Comments:
I've got a problem in ploughing due to lack of money.


Resp_Comments:
I would like to know if the project could help us with farming implements to help us prepare larger farms.


Resp_Comments:
Requests the project to help her acquire a new house and food.


Resp_Comments:
Can the project provide us with fodder for our livestock or even give us high breed livestock?Can the project provide seedlings to somebody if they request?


Resp_Comments:
I want the project to help me eradicate an unknown weed.It sticks on the sheep fur..Requests for training on soil conservation.


Resp_Comments:
Why are you taking the information from usand yet we don't see any action.I'm requesting the project to give me some tree seedlings and I'm also willing to give you a plot where you can plant trees.


Resp_Comments:
We would appreciate if the project would give us tree seedlings to plant around the homestead.There is a water problem and we request for a water point within the community.


Resp_Comments:
Lack of water when there's drought the ponds get dry.


Resp_Comments:
I would like to plant trees around my shamba.I'd like to be taught on how to plant trees.I love trees.I have neem trees,I'd like to sell them,where should I sell them?


Resp_Comments:
Requests for help from the project to acquire water pumps to help our farming during drought.


Tr_RNoPlanting:
I am too old to deal with taking care of trees.


Resp_Comments:
Can you come to our aid,we are in a group but we can't manage to buy some farming equipment eg water pumps to help our group do farming during drought.Or even some Oxen and Oxen plough.


Resp_Comments:
Bring us seedlings so that we can conserve the environment in a better way.Can the project support us acquire high breed livestock eg dairy goats and cows.


Resp_Comments:
Lack of improved seeds.Supply us with tree seedlings.


Tr_Spp3:
Terminalia mentalis (Sci), Umbrella tree (Com)

Resp_Comments:
Needs assistance in bee keeping skills and needs tree seedlings.


Resp_Comments:
The project should use the people who are willing to cooperate in tree planting to act as an example to others.I'm also ready to donate a plot for woodlot.


Resp_Comments:
I normally have striga weed on one of my farms.What can you do to help this situation in the farm.


Resp_Comments:
Can you assist us get dairy goats ,cows and improved seeds,farm implements.


Resp_Comments:
Is wondering how she can apply the techniques as taught by some organizations and achieve something.She has been trying but failed.


Resp_Comments:
How canHow can you help us control soil erosion?Can you help identify crops thst can do well in the area?How can you help us know what causes withering of trees that we plant?


Resp_Comments:
The onlt thing I want is trees.Help me with tree seedlings.


Resp_Comments:
I practise horticultural crops production.I need pipes to supply watr to my farm since I already have a generator and tank.


Tr_RNoPlanting:
She is left with no space to plant trees because she has one shamba and they have already planted trees that are enough.

Resp_Comments:
Needs tree seedlings and improved maize seeds.


Tr_RNoPlanting:
I'm old now and can't manage planting trees.


Resp_Comments:
What other measures can I take to curb soil erosion on my farm?Can youtrain us on soil conservation measures?


Resp_Comments:
Can you assist us to improve on our farming practises?


Resp_Comments:
What are the right trees to plant here?What food crop seeds should we plant here?


FMgt_P2:
Lack of money to improve farming practice and hire labour


FMgt_P1:
Lack of money to buy inputs, implements and bulls

Resp_Comments:
There's a problem of striga weed on my farm.Can the project provide us with seeds which can help counter the problem.


Resp_Comments:
What can be done about drought in this area?


Resp_Comments:
Has problem with striga leading to low production.Livestock destroys crops due to free grazing.


Resp_Comments:
Asking if they can be assisted in getting a generator to enable them pump water when there is drought.


Resp_Comments:
Asking for assistance in tree planting,livestock diseases,water conservation


Resp_Comments:
Requests for more training to improve soil fertility and water conservation,type of seeds,right timing on planting,good production skills for the whole community.


Resp_Comments:
requests for assistance in buying ploughing equipment and in tree production


Tr_RNoPlanting:
She says she is old and so she can't manage to plant and protect the trees. Her grandson is also young and attends school.

Resp_Comments:
She says she is old and so she has to give part of her shamba to someone to offer her labour.


Resp_Comments:
Requests for help to get tapped water and loans for development eg poultry keeping,bee keeping.dairy goat rearing


Tr_RNoPlanting:
He stays on someone's farm and so has no powers to make decision on tree planting


Resp_Comments:
I'd like to plant vegetables but I'm very far from the source of water.Can you help us desilt this dam?


Resp_Comments:
Don't provide us with tree seedlings during drought.


Resp_Comments:
Train us on how to eradicate soil erosion.Give us trees to plant.


Resp_Comments:
Always come with seeds and seedlings to show us when you are talking to us.


Resp_Comments:
You promised us tree seedlings yet you have not brought us any.What's wrong?


Resp_Comments:
How can you help us to acquire fodder,soil conservation trainings,how to prevent diseases in chicken,tree ants? people.


Resp_Comments:
We have water problem that's why we find it hard to plant trees or horticultural crops.With water we can even rear high breed livestock.Diseases in chicken is rampant.


Resp_Comments:
We've been questioned several times,how can you help us?We lack implements,water,capital,market


Resp_Comments:
Group want to grow sugarcane and horticultural crops but they lack finances to start.


Resp_Comments:
Need tree seedlings and dairy goats to keep.


Resp_Comments:
Is there any kind of assistance you want to offer the community?


Resp_Comments:
Needs assistance in crop and tree production and improved fallows


Resp_Comments:
You promised us tree seedlings,youeven took soil samples from our shambas,what plan do you have for us?


Resp_Comments:
I'm willing to give a plot to the project for tree planting.I'm also requestingif you could assist meto get the water pipes.requesting if the project could offer me some gutters.


Resp_Comments:
I'm requesting the project to train our group.I'm also willing to donate a portion for tree planting


Resp_Comments:
Is there any kind of assistance that you offer after these questions?Could we get some seedlings for planting?


Resp_Comments:
I'm requesting for tree seedlings to plant


Resp_Comments:
Encourage the community to practise agroforestry for sale not for consumption.


Resp_Comments:
Requests for financial support to educate her children.


Resp_Comments:
Need banana,sweet potaoes,grafted oranges seedlings.


Resp_Comments:
I'm asking if you can help us in tree plantings.


Resp_Comments:
I will appreciate very much if you assist us with trees.We have small pieces of land and crops are being destroyed by wild animals.


Resp_Comments:
I'm not allowed to plant trees in my homestead.What do I do?


Resp_Comments:
Please tell ICRAF to continue telling my fellow villagers to continue planting trees - it is very hard to get trees for any use in this area - only acacia for charcoal.


Resp_Comments:
Will we be given fertilizers? If I plant trees on the farm, do I still plant crops?


Resp_Comments:
If I plant the trees, are they mine or yours?


Resp_Comments:
Where are trees to be planted - inside the farm with maize or only along the fence?


Resp_Comments:
Most of our farms are infertile.  What can improve them is fertilizers but we have no access to them.  Can you help?


Tr_RNoPlanting:
We had a space for trees and ICRAF has already planted for us enough trees in there so for now we want to care for those that we already have.

Resp_Comments:
1. Please help us control striga. 2. How can we be assisted with funds to improve farming? 3. If people can plant more trees we will experience adequate rain.


FMgt_P1:
Lack of money to improve farming practices.


# tbl_LivestockProblems

Livestock_Problem:
lack of fodder especially during drought


Livestock_Problem:
Lack of  enough grazing land leading to low milk yield.


Livestock_Problem:
Insufficient grazing land during drought


Livestock_Problem:
Insufficient grazing fields during drought


Livestock_Problem:
Lack of labour to look after the livestock


Livestock_Problem:
Insufficient drinking water for the livestock


# tbl_NoTreePlanting_CulturalReasons

CulturalReason:
believes umbrella tree causes death when roots penetrate deep down.


# tbl_OtherFodderSources

OtherFodderSource:
Rented somewhere for the animals to feed


# tbl_Overview

STitle:
Questionnaire on Contigent Valuation Study, Western Kenya

Collaborators:
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and Michigan State University (MSU)

mdbDesigners:
E.A. Ambani (Stream Logic Tech) and Rohit (MSU)


# tbl_PTrPlanting

Tr_PPltSpp:
Eucalyptus (Com), Blue gum (Eng), Mti-mbao (Swa)


Tr_PPltSpp:
Terminalia mentalis (Sci), Umbrella tree (Com)


# tbl_SWConservation

ConsMeas_Challenges:
high water intensity sometimes destroys them


ConsMeas_Challenges:
sometimes the furrows are eroded when there's too much rain.


ConsMeas_Challenges:
Been failing because the gulley is very big


ConsMeas_Challenges:
At times rain water washes away sisal and aloe vera


ConsMeas_Challenges:
eaten by the animals,dry up during drought.


ConsMeas_Challenges:
During rains they are destroyed by rain water


ConsMeas_Challenges:
Animals step on the soil making it loose and vulnerable to erosion


ConsMeas_Challenges:
not effective when the force of rain water is intense


ConsMeas_Challenges:
When the rains are heavy,the stones are washed away


ConsMeas_Challenges:
Our efforts alone is not enough to stop erosion completely


ConsMeas_Challenges:
lack of tools and inadequate income to pay the labourers


ConsMeas_Purpose:
prevent  top soil from being washed away


ConsMeas_Challenges:
High water intensity destroys the structure


ConsMeas_Challenges:
Lorries destroy them during sand harvesting


ConsMeas_Challenges:
Destroyed by high intensity of rain water


ConsMeas_Challenges:
intense flow of rainwater destroys the contours


ConsMeas_Challenges:
Destruction of the fodder and teracces by animals


# tbl_TreesRemoval

Tr_RemSpp:
Terminalia mentalis (Sci), Umbrella tree (Com)


Tr_RemSpp:
Eucalyptus (Com), Blue gum (Eng), Mti-mbao (Swa)


