Woody invasive alien species are among the world’s worst invaders, significantly affecting ecosystem services, increasing the cost of farming and reducing access to land. Prosopis juliflora (“prosopis”), a spiny shrub or tree, was introduced from its native Latin America into Eastern Africa to reduce dust and sandstorms and provide wood and fodder for livestock, but it has spread from the original areas of introduction and invaded large areas of land, thereby replacing grazing and arable land with impenetrable thickets. Stakeholders in two invaded regions of Kenya and Tanzania selected and tested, through an inclusive and participatory process guided by the Woody Weeds project, one sustainable land management (SLM) practice to manage prosopis through uprooting and subsequent use of the cleared land for continuous crop and fodder production. The practice was successful and was adopted by stakeholders in the communities where it was tested. This dataset contains responses to household surveys to assess reasons why people adopted the practice or not, as well as whether there was an effect of the Woody Weeds project on the adoption, through in-person interviews with 154 household heads in Baringo, Kenya, and 148 in Kahe, Tanzania.
This data was used in the publication:
René Eschen, Omega Emmanuel Kaaya, Charles Joseph Kilawe, Barnabas Philip Malila, John Richard Mbwambo, Mickfanaka Stephen Mwihomeke, Winnie Nunda, ‘Adoption of a sustainable land management practice for invasive Prosopis juliflora in East Africa,’ CABI Agriculture and Bioscience. Doi: 10.1186/s43170-024-00315-1
