History of grassland development (1900–1970)

Abstract

Although purposeful grassland development in East Africa is of relatively recent origin (± 1900) it has been made by a wide diversity of people. This is due to tumultuous political and economic changes which took place in the region both in the colonial period and thereafter. Also, the last part of the 1800s had seen tremendous upheavels and changes. Catastrophic epidemics of rinderpest had all but decimated the cattle herds. In that same period maize had come to replace sorghum as the major staple food, in a very short time.