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One Health in pastoral Ethiopia
In recent years in pastoral areas of developing countries, the One Health approach has gained greater credibility and visibility as a way to combine interventions for both human and animals. However, relatively little attention in the work on One Health has been given thus far to the component of environmental health, i.e. the health of the […]
Pastoralists, politics, development projects & conflict in Kenya
Dryland counties of northern Kenya are expected to undergo massive change in the coming years because of the Government’s ambitious infrastructural development agenda, but the area frequently experiences ethnic and political conflict. A case study was made in Isiolo County, where planned development projects and conflict risks coincide. In the Bonn International Centre for Conversion […]
Tanzanian pastoralists risk dispossession through geospatial surveys
The article “Resisting legibility: state and conservation boundaries, pastoralism, and the risk of dispossession through geospatial surveys in Tanzania” by J. Bluwstein, published in Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History, 6(1), illustrates how the use of modern geospatial surveying technology in Tanzania failed to resolve a boundary conflict between the state and nature conservation authorities on […]
Impacts of Prosopis invasion on livelihoods of Afar pastoralists
Scientists in Haramaya and Addis Ababa Universities in Ethiopia made a study on “Impacts of woody invasive alien plant species on rural livelihood: generalized propensity score evidence from Prosopis spp. invasion in Afar Region in Ethiopia” (published 2018 in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 8, article 28) to assess the impact of Prosopis invasion on […]
Research in pastoral systems: workshop report
A workshop on “Research in pastoral systems: filling gaps and avoiding methodological traps” was held on 18 September 2019 immediately before the annual Tropentag conference on research in tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management and rural development. The theme of the 2019 Tropentag, hosted by the Universities of Kassel and Goettingen in Germany, was […]