Land Use Change, Impacts and Dynamics (LUCID)

The main objective of the LUCID network is to stimulate research on land use and global change in east Africa by bringing together experiences from different long term research sites to bear on common regional research themes associated with land degradation and conservation of biodiversity in the context of sustainable livelihoods. The LUCID team has examined the socio-economic causes and consequences of land degradation and the biophysical systems that underlie changing patterns of land use within East Africa.

LUCID researchers are currently engaged in field studies, data collection and qualitative analysis, and modelling at a variety of scales (field, household, landscape, district, nation, region). They combine ground process knowledge and analytical skills to generalize processes of land-use change across broader scales and over a longer time periods.

The project's regional coordination office is based at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya.

Resources available on the network's website include: a listing of collaborative institutions, details of the LUCID project, a resource of LUCID people and contacts, and a collection of articles and working papers.