Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to review literature and put together the available innovation and technologies within three (livestock, dryland farming and alternative livelihoods) areas of possible way of improving life by the pastoralists in Kenya. The document is divided into three chapters capturing livestock, dryland farming and alternative livelihoods. Innovation and technologies in livestock captured include; improved livestock breeds, dorper sheep, boer goats, feed resource improvements, integration of forage legumes into cereal production systems, integration of forage legumes into cereal cropping systems, silage making, hay making, use of bunched herding to restore degraded rangelands, community-based animal health workers, movable house for kids and lambs, modified chumvikuria for camels, hemp cooling technology for camel milk marketing, donkey carrier for hygienic transporting camel milk in pastoral areas, evaporative charcoal milk cooler, participatory market chain approach technology, ultrasound pregnancy diagnosis as low-tech tool to enhance small ruminant production, and improved reproductive techniques. Dryland farming innovation and technology captured here include; drip irrigation, fog harvesting, rain water harvesting, slow-forming terraces, m-fodder technology, use of animal impact to restore degraded rangelands, mango grafting technology, conservation agriculture-ca, crop diversification and new varieties, biotechnology for climate change adaptation of crops , agro-forestry, evergreen agriculture, community-based agricultural extension agents, farmer field school, FFSS, kitchen gardens, hydroponic fodder, mango harvesting tools, ethiorirab bee hive, biogas, microdams/waterpans, and improved dryland crop varieties Alternative livelihoods for pastoralists included in this review are; honey production, ethioribrab’ hive, biogas, gum arabic, poultry farming, green charcoal making, and tanning.
