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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 […]
Herding through uncertainties – interfaces between pastoralists & uncertainty
Herding through uncertainties – principles and practices: exploring the interfaces of pastoralists and uncertainty (2019, 51pp), by Michele Nori of the European University Institute, is a literature review for the European Research Council-funded PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty, Resilience: Global Lessons from the Margins) project. The paper argues that lessons from pastoralists may help people working in […]
Sustainable rangeland management in sub-Saharan Africa
Sustainable rangeland management in sub-Saharan Africa: guidelines to good practice (2019, 412 pp), published by WOCAT (World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies) and TerrAfrica, challenges the conventional view that rangelands in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are characterised by overgrazing, erosion, drought, famine and conflict. It shows how local people, often supported by enlightened projects and […]