Pastoralism, Mobility & Land Tenure (page 23)
Trade-offs between pastoralism & wildlife conservation in Kenya
Some pastoralists in the East African rangelands diversify into wildlife conservation and tourism in order to supplement livestock-based livelihoods and to spread risk. Tourism can be an alternative source of income during drought, but may reduce access to grazing resources, and wildlife may destroy crops and injure, kill or transmit disease to livestock or people. […]
Digital nomads & basic education in northern Kenya
In Digital Development Debates Issue 14 (March 2015) of the Development Policy Forum of GIZ (German Agency for International Cooperation), the article “The real digital nomads”, by Uli Schwarz and Petra Dilthey, describes an e-learning programme called Ethno E-Empowerment among mobile Rendille, Samburu and Turkana pastoralists in northern Kenya. The pastoralists’ everyday lives – in […]
Review of “The future of pastoralism”
The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) devoted an entire issue of its Scientific and Technical Review (Vol. 35, Issue 2, 2016, 720pp) to the topic of pastoralism – its history, pastoral systems in different parts of the world, recent developments in policy and practice, and opportunities for the future. The editors – Jakob Zinsstag […]
Households balancing risks & returns for resilience in Darfur
The Feinstein International Center of Tufts University is conducting a series of studies on resilience in the context of Darfur Region of Sudan. The report “Risks and returns: household priorities for resilient livelihoods in Darfur” (2016, 112pp including Arabic summary) examines how numerous shocks of various types over the past 15 years have affected specific […]
Pastoralist community perceptions of land-use changes in southern Kenya
Resource-use changes in rangeland ecosystems have triggered ecological, social and economic dynamics that often have adverse effects on pastoralists. The study “Community perceptions on spatio-temporal land use changes in the Amboseli ecosystem, southern Kenya”, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice (2016 6:24), applied an integrated approach using local knowledge and spatial technologies to assess […]