Pastoralism & Natural Resources (page 22)
Ngorongoro Maasai to be evicted
The Oakland Institute has brought out a new report on pastoralists in northern Tanzania: The looming threat of eviction: the continued displacement of the Maasai under the guise of conservation in Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) (2021, 32pp). It reveals the Tanzanian Government’s plans to evict 82,000 residents – mostly Maasai – from their land. This […]
Bring back herder conservationists in Kenya
In northern Kenya, conservancies are regarded in conventional development circles as a panacea to poaching, human–wildlife conflict and land degradation. In his article “Bring back the herder conservationist” (June 2021), published in the citizens’ e-platform The Elephant, Hussein Wario of the Centre for Research and Development in the Drylands (CRDD) reveals how the nearly complete […]
Pastoralism is the future – animated video
Man-made climate change is creating conditions on our planet that are increasingly characterised by variability and unpredictability. Pastoralists use variability to their advantage. Their production systems guide us to a sustainable future. Find out how they do it in this 2:23-min animated video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeqITzac9Ac This video film was created by Cartoonbase and realised by CELEP […]
Barriers to migration: wildlife and fences in Kenya
Large wild mammals in Africa are under threat because of loss of habitat resulting from agricultural expansion, poaching and barriers that block migration, including fences, roads and railways. Based on their research of this situation in Kenya, Joseph Ogutu and his colleagues propose measures that can have a positive impact on migratory pathways of wildlife: […]
IK in adaptive environmental management in Borana, Ethiopia
The proliferation of woody plant species has been observed on rangelands in the Horn of Africa. The paper “Indigenous ecological knowledge as the basis for adaptive environmental management: evidence from pastoralist communities in the Horn of Africa” (2016) by Chuan Liao et al looks into pastoralists’ adaptation to such environmental changes in the Borana Zone […]