Maasai gender relations in managing dry-season pastures

The paper “Getting by in the dry season: ololilis in Tanzania” by Alessandra Galiè and Ben Likuyu is a chapter (pp 93–100) in the book A different kettle of fish? Gender integration in livestock and fish research published in 2016 by the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock & Fish and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT). The paper reports on findings of a project that looked at gender division of labour and decision-making by Maasai pastoralists in northern Tanzania in managing pastures reserved for dry-season grazing (ololili). Through gender analysis, it explores constraints for men and women in olilili management, giving special attention to constraints faced by widows and poorer women and households, as well as issues of access to control over resources in terms of who enjoyed benefits from ololili management, and issues of gender-based violence.

The blog “When ‘Do no harm’ is harder than ‘doing good’ (7 August 2018) by Alessandra Galiè, social scientist with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), is based on this chapter.

Posted on 9 August 2018 in Pastoralism, Gender & Youth