Land Reclamation

Syllabus tag: KCSE | Geography | Form 4 | Topic 31 Land Reclamation

Lesson objectives

By the end of this topic, you should be able to:

• Define land reclamation and rehabilitation and state their importance.
• Describe the methods of land reclamation used in Kenya.
• Describe the Mwea and Perkerra irrigation schemes.
• Describe the Zuider Zee project and compare it with Kenyan reclamation.

Summary

Land reclamation is the process of making unproductive land productive; land rehabilitation is restoring land that has been degraded. Kenya reclaims land chiefly by irrigation, drainage of swamps, pest control and afforestation. Mwea grows rice on the Tana; the Netherlands' Zuider Zee project reclaimed land from the sea itself.