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The African elephant and food security in Africa: experiences from Baringo District, Kenya

机译：非洲象与非洲的粮食安全：肯尼亚巴林哥区的经验

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Elephants often impose costs on the people who share their range, including threats to life and the destruction of property. Incidences of conflict between humans and elephants, in particular crop destruction crops are increasing in Africa, undermining efforts to conserve biodiversity and food security. This study analysed the impact of crop raiding by African elephants to food security in Baringo District, Kenya. The study area covering 390 km2 was divided into three blocks Kamailel, Mochongoi and Kimoriot. A total of 120 households, 40 per block, were interviewed and data analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences. Our results show that human-elephant conflict (HEC) in the study area had reduced by 15%, 20%, and 29% for 2006, 2007 and 2008. Despite reduction in HEC, crop destruction by elephants influenced both household food security and cash income. About 65.5% of the losses were associated with maize, followed by beans (32.8%) and lastly cabbage (1.7%). Crop damage to households was on average KShs.104,225 per household per annum, equivalent to six months household loss of food while the household cash income was reduced by 11.3%. HEC is common among communities living adjacent to protected areas. This often destabilizes communities and undermines their normal livelihood strategies, thus contributing to increased food insecurity.
机译：大象经常对共享其生存范围的人造成损失，包括生命威胁和财产损失。人类与大象之间的冲突发生率，特别是非洲破坏农作物的现象在增加，破坏了保护生物多样性和粮食安全的努力。这项研究分析了非洲大象突袭农作物对肯尼亚巴林哥区粮食安全的影响。研究区域占地390平方公里，分为三个区域，分别是Kamailel，Mochongoi和Kimoriot。使用社会科学统计软件包对总共120个家庭（每块40个家庭）进行了访谈和数据分析。我们的结果表明，研究区域的人与大象冲突（HEC）在2006、2007和2008年分别减少了15％，20％和29％。尽管HEC有所减少，但大象对农作物的破坏影响了家庭粮食安全和现金收入。大约65.5％的损失与玉米有关，其次是豆类（32.8％），最后是白菜（1.7％）。农作物对家庭的损害平均每户每年104,225肯尼亚先令，相当于六个月家庭粮食损失，而家庭现金收入减少了11.3％。 HEC在居住在保护区附近的社区中很常见。这常常破坏社区的稳定并破坏其正常的生计策略，从而加剧了粮食不安全状况。

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