Pastoralism & Natural Resources (page 42)
Remote sensing & indigenous knowledge of grazing conditions in Karamoja
Low-input pastoral systems provide up to 90% of livestock and livestock products consumed in Uganda. However, pastoralist communities find it increasingly difficult to meet the forage needs of their livestock, a situation exacerbated by climatic variability. A study on “Drivers of forage availability: an integration of remote sensing and traditional ecological knowledge in Karamoja sub-region, […]
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 […]
Securing pastoralists’ land-tenure rights
As part of a project to promote sustainable pastoralism, supported by IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), Véterinaires Sans Frontières (VSF) made a survey of enabling policies and pastoralist practices in several areas of the world, including the Horn of Africa. One output of this study is the article “Securing pastoralists’ land tenure rights” (2016, […]
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 […]
Samburu perspectives on disaster, identity and landscape
The paper “Dust people: Samburu perspectives on disaster, identity and landscape” published in the Journal of Eastern African Studies 10 (1): 168–188 (2016) discusses the Samburu term ntoror, meaning a place that attracts division and fighting. This term brings together ideas about pastoralist landscapes that inherently attract conflict and place-based identities derived from environmental and […]