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Table 3 Mean incomes from the different livelihood activities and mean total household income

From: Trade-offs for climate-resilient pastoral livelihoods in wildlife conservancies in the Mara ecosystem, Kenya

Livelihood activity

HHs involved

% HHs

Per HH/year US$ (SE)

Per AU/day US$ (SE)

Median US$

Conservancies (n = 258)

133

52

1,135 (71.7)

0.41 (0.029)

963

Livestock production (n = 248)

241

97

2,504 (194.1)

0.91 (0.060)

1,510

Crop production (n = 258)

29

11

334 (88.0)

0.19 (0.054)

193

Off-farm tourism (n = 258)

158

61

1,081 (87.3)

0.49 (0.038)

816

Off-farm non-tourism (n = 258)

130

50

1,185 (126.0)

0.46 (0.045)

724

Total income

248

100

4,334 (244.3)

1.70 (0.076)

3,048

  1. Note: Mean incomes are shown per household (HH) per year and per AU per day. Only includes those HH involved in the activity (standard errors shown in parenthesis)