Pastoralism & Natural Resources (page 40)
Get to know pastoralism: handbook for journalists
The 16-page booklet “Get to know pastoralism – it works! a handbook for journalists” (2009) was brought out by the Regional Pastoral Livelihoods Advocacy Project (REGLAP) funded by the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO) and based in Kenya. In straightforward language, the booklet describes the current marginalised position of pastoralists, explains how this marginalisation […]
Resilience and collapse among pastoralist groups in Kenya
In the article “Resilience and collapse: histories, ecologies, conflicts and identities in the Baringo-Bogoria basin, Kenya”, published in 2016 in the Journal of Eastern African Studies (10:1, 1–20), David Anderson and Michael Bollig use the concept of resilience to examine long-term adaptation and transformation in response to environmental, economic, cultural or political shocks or adverse […]
Resource governance in Tanzanian Wildlife Management Areas
The article “Austere conservation: understanding conflicts over resource governance in Tanzanian wildlife management areas” by Jevgeniy Bluwstein et al (published 2016 in Conservation and Society 14(3): 218–231) explores how the regime of rules over access to land, natural and financial resources reflects the degree of community ownership of a Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Tanzania. […]
Local knowledge + spatial technology to understand range ecosystems
Local knowledge and spatial technologies were combined to assess resource changes in the Amboseli ecosystem in southern Kenya. Reduction of grazing land was perceived to be the main change over the last 40 years and was reported to be more pronounced under sedentary and semi-nomadic land uses than in the nomadic pastoral land-use sites. These observed […]
DLCI journal Resilience in the drylands Vol. 5
The fifth volume (Dec 2014, 52pp) of the DLCI (Drylands Learning and Capacity Building Initiative for Improved Policy and Practice in the Horn of Africa) journal on resilience building in the drylands of the Horn of Africa contains articles on natural resource management in Ethiopia and Uganda, livestock insurance, Turkana’s aquifers, measuring resilience, the pastoralist […]