Pastoralism & Climate Change (page 19)
Borana pastoralists’ indigenous climate-forecasting methods
The paper “The use of indigenous climate forecasting methods by the pastoralists of Northern Kenya”, by Anastasia Kagunyu et al, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice (2016), focuses on the early-warning signs of climate variation used by Borana pastoralists in Isiolo County to predict the onset of rainfall, floods and droughts – and the […]
How Kenya Borana pastoralists forecast climate variation
The paper “The use of indigenous climate forecasting methods by the pastoralists of Northern Kenya” (Anastasia Kagunyu et al, 2016, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice) focuses on the early-warning signs of climate variation used by the Borana community of Isiolo County, Kenya. A study was made of how the Borana predict the onset of […]
African cattle emissions lower than IPCC estimate
Scientists at the International Livestock Centre for Africa have found that the faecal methane emissions of cattle in East Africa are two times lower, faecal nitrous oxide (NO2) 10–20 times lower and urine NO2 two times lower than the estimates of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The study is significant as nearly 65% […]
Land-use changes & invasive shrubs in Baringo, Kenya
In the drylands around Lake Baringo, Kenya, the recent bush encroachment by the invasive alien species Prosopis juliflora and the native Dodonaea viscosa has changed human–environment interactions. The article “Land-use changes and the invasion dynamics of shrubs in Baringo”, published in the Journal of Eastern African Studies 10 (1): 111–129 (2016), suggests what led to […]
Digital mapping by pastoralists in Kenya and Tanzania
The 16-page article Participatory digital map-making in dry areas of Kenya and Tanzania, published in Participatory Learning and Action 66 (2013), describes a natural resource management project in which pastoralist communities in Kenya and Tanzania used Google Earth imagery to identify key resources on a global reference grid. The pastoralists were able to navigate the […]